Der steinerne Reiter 1923 (The Stone Rider)
The main female role in this silent film is played by Lucie Mannheim, Conrad Veidt's first lover, thanks to whom Conrad became acquainted with the art of cinema, and the world received a brilliant actor. It turns out that Lucie was a wonderful actress. In this film, her working partners are Rudolf Klein-Rogge ("Doctor Mabuse", "Metropolis", etc.) and Gustav von Wangenheim ("Nosferatu").
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Robert Donat, March 18, 1905 – June 9, 1958.
With Alfred Hitchcock and Lucie Mannheim on the set of The 39 Steps (1935).
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Alfred Hitchcock's 'The 39 Steps' on Max and Criterion Channel
The 39 Steps (1935), Alfred Hitchcock’s first great romantic thriller, smoothly plays the “wrong man” gambit with the light, black-humored grace that would reach its apex in North by Northwest.
Robert Donat stars as Richard Hanay, an affable Canadian tourist in London who becomes embroiled in a deadly conspiracy when a mysterious spy winds up murdered in his rented flat and both the police and a…
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“Nachts auf den Straßen” (1952) von Rudolf Jugert
Seit Jahrzehnten ist Heinrich Schlüter (Hans Albers) als selbstständiger Fuhrunternehmer tätig. Sowohl bei seinen Kollegen als auch bei der Verkehrspolizei verfügt der biedere Familienvater, der mit seiner Frau Anna (Lucie Mannheim) ein bescheidenes Haus bewohnt und dessen Tochter Lieschen erst kürzlich geheiratet hat, über eine ausgezeichnete Reputation. Als Schlüter eines Nachts bei einem auf der Autobahn tödlich Verunglückten einen Briefumschlag mit 20.000 Mark findet, beabsichtigt er zunächst, das Geld an die Polizei auszuhändigen, überlegt es sich jedoch anders, als er erfährt, dass der Betrag aus Devisenschiebereien stammt. Bei einer seiner zahlreichen Nachtfahrten nimmt Schlüter die attraktive Inge Hoffmann (Hildegard Knef) als Anhalterin mit. Er ahnt nicht, dass die wesentlich jüngere Frau von ihrem Liebhaber Kurt Willbrand (Marius Goring) gezielt darauf angesetzt wurde, einen Fernfahrer für dessen geplante kriminelle Transaktionen - den Schmuggel von Pelzen aus der DDR in die BRD - zu gewinnen ...
Rudolf Jugerts stimmungsvoller und spannender Kriminalfilm zeichnet ein authentisches Zeitbild und wartet mit sehr interessanten schauspielerischen Leistungen auf.
Das gilt jedoch nicht für den Hauptdarsteller, dessen wie üblich wenig nuanciertes Spiel mir auch hier nicht zusagt, sondern der statt dessen mit seiner Film-Liaison mit einer mehr als 35 Jahre jüngeren Partnerin ebenso für Fremdschämmomente sorgt wie der Versuch des damals 61jährigen - am Ende des Films erfährt der von Albers gespielte Charakter, dass er Großvaterfreuden entgegensieht! - Boogie-Woogie mit ihr zu tanzen oder er sich allen Ernstes als “moralisch Entrüsteter” das “Recht” herausnimmt, sie heftig zu ohrfeigen, da sie es gewagt hat, ihn zu hintergehen - während er seine außerehelichen Eskapaden mit ihr geflissentlich bagatellisiert.
Hildegard Knef hingegen ist erfrischend als selbstbewusste und energische junge Frau, die sich geschickt zur Wehr zu setzen weiß.
Den weitaus interessantesten Part jedoch hat der Engländer Marius Goring inne. Der Brite, der seine ausgezeichneten Deutschkenntnisse während seiner Studienaufenthalte in Frankfurt. München und Wien erwarb, liefert eine hervorragende Charakterstudie des ins kriminelle Milieu abgedrifteten und nicht zuletzt aufgrund seines Marihuanakonsums zur Linderung einer Kriegsverletzung permanent zwischen Manie und Depression, zwischen Zynismus und Verletzlichkeit schwankenden ehemaligen Jagdfliegers Kurt Willbrand. Wie in einigen seiner Filme stellt der begabte Hobbypianist Goring auch hier sein Talent unter Beweis und gibt sogar ein Chanson mit dem Titel “Schwarzer Kaffee” zum besten.
Marius Goring und Lucie Mannheim waren von 1941 bis 1976 mit einander verheiratet und traten auch häufig gemeinsam auf der Bühne und in Filmen auf.
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The 39 Steps (1935)
My ★★★ Review of The 39 Steps
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The 39 Steps (1935)
Synopsis – A man in London tries to help a counter-espionage agent, but when the agent is killed and the man stands accused, he must go on the run to save himself and stop a spy ring that is trying to steal top-secret information – The 39 Steps.
Director – Alfred Hitchcock
Starring – Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim, Godfrey Tearle
Genre – Crime | Mystery |…
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The 39 Steps (1935) Review
The 39 Steps (1935) Review
When Richard Hannay is in London he gets more than he bargained for when meeting Annabella Smith who claims she is running away from secret agents, he agrees to help her by hiding her but she is murdered during the night and he quickly becomes the prime suspect and must go on the run to save himself.
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The 39 Steps (1935)
My rating: 7/10
I think there must be several versions of this movie, because this had a bunch of stuff I did not remember, yet not a single mention of the Nazis I spoke of in my first review. Still, a great early example of the "innocent man on the run" subgenre Hitchcock helped popularize, and good times all around.
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what I read in 2022
2022
We Ride Upon Sticks- Quan Barry
How to Not Be Afraid of Everything- Jane Wong
Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket: Stories- Hilma Wolitzer
The Rabbit Hutch- Tess Gunty
The Daring Life and Dangerous Times of Eve Adams- Jonathan Ned Katz AND Lesbian Love- Eve Adams (in same volume)
Thistlefoot- GennaRose Nethercott
Bluest Nude- Ama Codjoe
The Master Letters- Lucy Brock-Broido (reread)
Family Lexicon- Natalia Ginzburg (tr. Jenny McPhee)
The Whole Story- Ali Smith
The Rupture Tense- Jenny Xie
Bad Rabbi: And other strange but true stories from the Yiddish press- Eddie Portnoy
A Tale for the Time Being- Ruth Ozeki
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands- Kate Beaton
Wandering Stars- Sholem Aleichem (tr. Aliza Shevrin)
Moldy Strawberries- Caio Fernando Abreu (tr. Bruna Dantas Lobato)
Sarahland- Sam Cohen
Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced An Emergency- Chen Chen
Elephant- Soren Stockman
Craft in the Real World- Matthew Salesses
Life of the Garment- Deborah Gorlin
Olio- Tyehimba Jess
In This Quiet Church of Night, I Say Amen- Devin Kelly
The Wild Fox of Yemen- Threa Almontaser
Song- Brigit Pegeen Kelly
Qorbanot- Alisha Kaplan w/ art by Tobi Kahn
Gold that Frames the Mirror- Brandon Melendez
Foreign Bodies- Kimiko Hahn
A Little Devil in America- Hanif Abdurraqib
Muscle Memory- Kyle Carrero Lopez
not without small joys- Emmanuel Oppong-Yeboah
Too Bright To See & Alma- Linda Gregg
Borne- Jeff VanderMeer
Harvard Square- André Aciman
What We Talk About When We Talk About Fat- Aubrey Gordon
The City We Became- N.K. Jemison
Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints- Joan Acocella
Vladimir-Julia May Jonas
Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch- Rivka Galchen
Lessons in Being Tender-Headed- Janae Johnson
Against Heaven- Kemi Alabi
How The Word Is Passed- Clint Smith
Earth Room- Rachel Mannheimer
True Biz- Sara Nović
Motherhood- Sheila Heti
The Fire Next Time- James Baldwin
Diary of a lonely girl or the battle against free love- Miriam Karpilove tr. Jessica Kirzane
Mezzanine- Matthew Olzmann
Customs- Solmaz Sharif
Edge of House- Dzvinia Orlowsky
Only as the Day is Long: New and Selected Poems- Dorianne Laux
DMZ Colony- Don Mee Choi
Stay Safe- Emma Hine
Spring Tides- Jacques Poulin, trn. Shira Fleishman (reread)
No One Is Talking About This- Patricia Lockwood
Unaccompanied- Javier Zamora
Where I Was From- Joan Didion
Air Raid- Polina Barskova tr. Valtzina Mort
Dispatch- Cam Awkward-Rich
Bury It- sam sax
A Cruelty Special to Our Species- Emily Jungmin Yoon
Homie- Danez Smith
Dreaming of You- Melissa Lozada-Oliva
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Robert Donat and Madeleine Carroll in The 39 Steps (Alfred Hitchcock, 1935)
Cast: Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim, Godfrey Tearle, Peggy Ashcroft, John Laurie, Helen Haye, Frank Cellier, Wylie Watson, Frederick Piper, Gus McNaughton, Jerry Verno. Screenplay: Charles Bennett, Ian Hay, based on a novel by John Buchan. Cinematography: Bernard Knowles. Art direction: Oscar Friedrich Werndorff, Albert Jullion. Film editing: Derek N. Twist. Music: Jack Beaver, Louis Levy.
The 39 Steps, Alfred Hitchcock's first great film, contains an object lesson in how to end a movie. Rather than tie everything up in a neat package Hitchcock simply ends after the confession and death of Mr. Memory (Wylie Watson) -- shot with beautiful irony against a background of high-kicking chorus girls -- in a closeup of Hannay (Robert Donat) and Pamela (Madeleine Carroll) holding hands, the handcuffs still dangling from Hannay's wrist. Nothing more needs to be said or shown, although a scene was apparently shot in which it's made more explicit that Hannay and Pamela are now a couple. Who needs it? The 39 Steps established Hitchcock as the master of the romantic thriller. There are those who regret that he never moved very far out of that genre, and who wish that he could have devoted himself to more highly serious material -- Dostoevsky, perhaps -- instead of popular authors like John Buchan, who wrote the novel on which the film is based. But that's the kind of aesthetic puritanism that leads directors astray into high-minded dullness. We should be grateful that Hitchcock never succumbed to it, and that he continued to devote himself to an almost unique economy of narrative and to developing his skill at creating ways to distract the viewer from noticing a story's holes. How, exactly, does Hannay get from the Forth Bridge to the Scottish Highlands? By the same sleight-of-hand that gets Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant) from New York to Chicago to Mount Rushmore in North by Northwest (1959), of course. And again, who cares? It's also the first of his films to rely on star power, the charisma and charm of the young Donat and the first of the director's "icy blonds," Carroll, who was never more appealing than in this film. At the same time, he also acknowledges the necessity of supporting players who can give the film texture and depth. I'm speaking here particularly of such narrative filigree as the crofter (John Laurie) and his wife (Peggy Ashcroft), the milkman (Frederick Piper) who lends Hannay his white coat and cap, the traveling salesmen (Gus McNaughton and Jerry Verno) on the train, and the professor's wife (Helen Haye) who is so unperturbed at seeing her husband (Godfrey Tearle) pointing a gun at Hannay. These are mostly the creations of Hitchcock and his screenwriter, Charles Bennett, and not John Buchan. Who reads Buchan anymore? Who doesn't want to watch Hitchcock's film again?
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The 39 Steps (1935) / Thriller film / Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim, Godfrey Tearle
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Mackefish
#Lingen: #Mackefisch mit dem Programm Harmoniedergang im #Professorenhaus, Universitätsplatz, Heute, 20 Uhr. Karten 15 EUR, erm 7,50 EUR
Mackefisch
Harmoniedergang
Lingen (Ems) – Professorenhaus, Universitätsplatz 5-6
Heute, Donnerstag, 10.11.2022 – 20 Uhr
Eintritt: 15 EUR, erm. 7,50 EUR
Mackefisch – das sind musikalische Vieleskönner, die im deutschsprachigen Musikkabarett gerade für frischen Wind sorgen. Das Mannheimer Duo aus Lucie Mackert und Peter Fischer wurde 2021 Förderpreisträger des Kleinkunstpreis Baden-Württemberg,…
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