The Missing Wife (1937 film)

The Missing Wife
Directed byE.W. Emo
Written byHans Gustl Kernmayr
Aldo von Pinelli
Based onThe Missing Wife by Max Dürr
Produced byOskar Glück
StarringPaul Kemp
Lucie Englisch
Hans Moser
CinematographyEduard Hoesch
Edited byLisbeth Neumann
Music byHeinz Sandauer
Production
company
Projectograph-Film
Distributed bySiegel Monopolfilm
Release date
  • 8 November 1937 (1937-11-08)
Running time
84 minutes
CountryAustria
LanguageGerman

The Missing Wife (German: Die verschwundene Frau) is a 1937 Austrian comedy film directed by E.W. Emo and starring Paul Kemp, Lucie Englisch and Hans Moser. It was shot at the Sievering Studios in Vienna.[1] The film's sets were designed by the art director Julius von Borsody.[2] [3] Based on a novel by Max Dürr, it was remake of the 1929 silent film of the same title.[4]

Synopsis

Ferdinand Bartel pays so much attention to his dog that his neglected wife Hansi decides to leave him temporarily. However, in a misunderstanding a judicial assistant mistakenly believes that he is about to murder her and launches his own investigation into the case.

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References

Bibliography

  • Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
  • Klaus, Ulrich J. Deutsche Tonfilme: Jahrgang 1937. Klaus-Archiv, 1988.
  • Von Dassanowsky, Robert. Screening Transcendence: Film Under Austrofascism and the Hollywood Hope, 1933-1938. Indiana University Press, 2018