Monte Carlo Madness (1932 film)

Monte Carlo Madness is a 1932 German musical comedy film directed by Hanns Schwarz and starring Sari Maritza, Hans Albers and Charles Redgie.^[1] It was an English-language version of the 1931 German film Monte Carlo Madness, which was based on the 1930 novel Bomben auf Monte Carlo by Fritz Reck-Malleczewen. The screenplay concerns a captain who falls in love with a Queen in Monte Carlo.

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 ... Queen Yola
Hans Albers ... Capt. Erickson
Charles Redgie ... Peter
Helen Haye ... Isabel
John Deverell ... Consul
C. Hooper Trask ... Prime Minister
Comedian Harmonists ... Themselves
Kapelle Carlo Minari ... 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.^[2]

References

↑ http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/63861
↑ Bergfelder & Cargnelli p.51

Bibliography

Bergfelder, Tim & Cargnelli, Christian. Destination London: German-speaking emigrés and British cinema, 1925-1950. Berghahn Books, 2008.

External links

Monte Carlo Madness at the Internet Movie Database

The films of Hanns Schwarz

Nanon (1924)
The Telephone Operator (1925)
Hungarian Rhapsody (1928)
The Runaway Girl (1928)
The Wonderful Lies of Nina Petrovna (1929)
Melody of the Heart (1929)
Darling of the Gods (1930)
Burglars (1930)
Flagrant délit (1931)
Her Grace Commands (1931)
Monte Carlo Madness (1931)
Captain Craddock (1931)
Happy Hearts (1932)
Gypsies of the Night (1932)
Monte Carlo Madness (1932)
Prince of Arcadia (1933)
Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1937)

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