I Was Jack Mortimer

I Was Jack Mortimer
Directed by	Carl Froelich
Written by	Robert A. Stemmle Thea von Harbou
Based on	I Was Jack Mortimer by Alexander Lernet-Holenia
Produced by	Carl Froelich
Starring	Anton Walbrook Eugen Klöpfer Sybille Schmitz
Cinematography	Reimar Kuntze
Edited by	Gustav Lohse
Music by	Harald Böhmelt
Production company	Carl Froelich-Film
Distributed by	Tobis Film
Release date	17 October 1935
Running time	85 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	German

I Was Jack Mortimer (German: Ich war Jack Mortimer) is a 1935 German thriller film directed by Carl Froelich and starring Anton Walbrook, Eugen Klöpfer, and Sybille Schmitz. It is an adaptation of the 1933 novel of the same title by Alexander Lernet-Holenia.

The film's sets were designed by the art director Franz Schroedter.

Cast

• Anton Walbrook as Ferdinand 'Fred' Sponer, a Budapest taxi-driver
• Eugen Klöpfer as Pedro Montemayor, a conductor
• Sybille Schmitz as Winifred Montemayor, Pedro's wife
• Marieluise Claudius as Marie Polikow
• Max Gülstorff as Colonel Polikow, Marie's father
• Maria Loja as Mrs. Polikow, Marie's mother
• Hilde Hildebrand as Daisy
• Heinz Salfner as Andrassy, Daisy's friend
• Jochen Hauer as Doering, a taxi-driver
• Georg A. Profé as Jack Mortimer
• Hugo Drahower
• Sophie Eschenbach
• Adolf Essek
• Erich Fiedler
• Aribert Grimmer
• Otto Grüneberg
• Jochen Kuhlmey
• Peter Lau
• Manfred Meurer
• Gerda Preiß
• Josef Reithofer
• Albert von Kersten
• Michael von Newlinsky
• Eugen Wallrath
• Hanns Waschatko

See also

• Adventure in Vienna (1952)
• Stolen Identity (1953)

Bibliography

• Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim, eds. (2009). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. New York: Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-57181-655-9.

External links

• I Was Jack Mortimer at IMDb