Sergeant Berry
{{short description|1938 film}}
{{for|the character and TV series|Sergeant Berry (TV series)}}
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| name = Sergeant Berry
| image = File:Sergeant Berry.jpg
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| director = Herbert Selpin
| producer = Hans Albers
Franz Vogel
| writer = Rudolf Klein-Rogge
Lotte Neumann
Walter Wassermann
| screenplay =
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| starring = Hans Albers
Toni von Bukovics
Peter Voß
| music = {{ill|Hans Sommer (composer, born 1904)|lt=Hans Sommer|de|Hans Sommer (Komponist, 1904)}}
| cinematography = Franz Koch
| editing = Lena Neumann
| studio = Tobis Film
| distributor = Tobis Film
| released = {{Film date|1938|12|22|df=yes}}
| runtime = 113 minutes
| country = Germany
| language = German
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Sergeant Berry is a 1938 German comedy western film directed by Herbert Selpin and starring Hans Albers, Toni von Bukovics and Peter Voß. It was based on a novel by Robert Arden.Hull p.145
The film's sets were designed by the art director Paul Markwitz and Fritz Maurischat.
Synopsis
A tough Chicago policeman is sent on a dangerous mission in the Mexican–American border region.
Cast
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- Hans Albers as Sergeant Mecki Berry
- Toni von Bukovics as Berry's mother
- Peter Voß as Oberst Turner
- Edwin Jürgensen as Madison
- Gerd Höst as Amely Madison
- Alexander Golling as Evans
- Alexander Engel as Gomez
- Herbert Hübner as Don Antonio de Garcia
- Herma Relin as Ramona
- Werner Scharf as Don José
- Erich Ziegel as Consul Erasmus Smith
- Hanni Weisse as the consul's wife
- Hans Stiebner as Carlo
- Kurt Seifert as Chief of Police Alcalde
- Hertha von Walther as Juanita
- Erich Dunskus as ein Grenzpolizeiinspektor
- Annemarie Schreiner as Zofe Ramonas
- Toni Färber as US-Grenzbeamter
- Friedrich Gnaß as Chicago-Gangsterboss Duffy
- Fred Goebel as Hotel Porter
- Reginald Pasch as Schmuggler Blandy
- Louis Ralph as Gangster
- Arthur Reinhardt as Schmuggler Big
- Arnulf Schröder as Pedro, Alcaldes Assistant
- Heinz Wemper as the chief of the gangster
- Manfred Meurer as Don Antonios Angestellter
- Helmuth Heyne as ein Raufbold
- Jac Diehl as ein Hotelgast
- Mohamed Husen as the Chicago nightclub patron
- Louis Brody as Berry's neighbor
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References
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Bibliography
- Hull, David Stewart. Film in the Third Reich: a study of the German cinema, 1933–1945. University of California Press, 1969.
External links
- {{IMDb title|0030730}}
{{Herbert Selpin}}
Category:German adventure comedy films
Category:German Western (genre) comedy films
Category:1930s Western (genre) comedy films
Category:1930s German-language films
Category:Films directed by Herbert Selpin
Category:Foreign films set in the United States
Category:Films based on German novels
Category:Films of Nazi Germany
Category:German black-and-white films
Category:1930s adventure comedy films
Category:German-language adventure comedy films
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