The Grand Prix (1944)
The moral is simple: keep your mouth shut, especially when you're working during the wartime in a factory, which produces racing cars only, or someone can (or even must) get murdered. Not a good movie, not a bad either. The ending is abrupt and artificial, which seems to be a common plague of Third Reich's crime movies. Gustav Fröhlich could never get rid of his silent era mannerisms and overacting. But on the other side, this film is not boring and has to offer some decent plot turns and acting.
Director: Karl Anton
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Gustav Fröhlich as Westhoff |
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Otto Wernicke as Obermeister Kramp |
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Carola Höhn as Fanny |
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Bruni Löbel as Anneliese |
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Franz Schafheitlin as Greininger |
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O.E. Hasse as Kommissar Wegener |
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Georg Thomalla as Borchardt |
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Ernst Sattler as Vorsitzender |
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Edelweiß Malchin as Elfriede, seine Tochter |
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Herbert Hübner as Direktor Wullenberg |
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Clementia Egies as Frl. Holdt, seine Assistentin |
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Otto Graf as Verteidiger |
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Werner Schott as Staatsanwalt |
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Hans Stiebner as Erpresser |
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Erich Dunskus as |
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Erwin Fichtner as |
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Bernhard Goetzke as |
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Knut Hartwig as |
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Maria Hofen as |
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Herta Humm as |
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Walter Pentzlin as |
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Franz Weber as |
| Directing | Karl Anton | Director |