I Was Jack Mortimer

1935 85 min Drama, Thriller

The jealous star conductor Montemayor knows that his beautiful younger wife, Winifred, is cheating on him with an American named Jack Mortimer. After the concert rehearsal, he takes a taxi to the train station, sees Mortimer and shoots him at an intersection from the backseat of his taxi. The shot is not heard during the traffic noise. The taxi driver, Sponer, sitting in his car with the now-dead Mortimer, goes into a panic.

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IMDb 6.8

director Carl Froelich

writers Robert A. Stemmle, Thea von Harbou

cast

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

I Was Jack Mortimer

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