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Monte Carlo Madness (1932 film)
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Wikipedia article
'Monte Carlo Madness' is a 1932 German musical comedy film directed by Hanns Schwarz and starring Sari Maritza, Hans Albers and Charles Redgie.[https://web.archive.org/web/20090115024016/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/63861 BFI.org] It was an English-language version of the 1931 German film 'Bombs on Monte Carlo', which was based on the 1930 novel 'Bombs on Monte Carlo' by Fritz Reck-Malleczewen. The screenplay concerns a captain who falls in love with a Queen in Monte Carlo. It cost to produce.
The film's sets were designed by the art director Erich Kettelhut.
Plot
In Monte Carlo, a captain tries to raise the money to pay his crew at the gaming table, and meets and falls in love with a Queen.
Cast
*Sari Maritza as Queen Yola
*Hans Albers as Capt. Erickson
*Charles Redgie as Peter
*Helen Haye as Isabel
*John Deverell as Consul
*C. Hooper Trask as Prime Minister
*Comedian Harmonists as Themselves
*Kapelle Carlo Minari as Themselves - Orchestra
Reception
The film was not a success with contemporary critics. A review in 'Film Pictorial' observed that "Erich Pommer is a great producer, but in this film he does not live up to his established reputation.
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