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Das Geheimnis der Roten Katze

West Germany 1949
produced by
Comedia Film
directed by Helmut Weiss
starring Heinz Rühmann, Angelika Hauff, Gustav Knuth, Trude Hesterberg, Jakob Tiedtke, Erwin Eckersberg, Alwin Lippisch, Erhard Siedel, Hans Cossy
music by Werner Bochmann

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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Fallen on hard times, actor André has to take a job playing a hardened criminal in a tourist trap disguised as gangsters' dump, called Die Rote Katze, where he & a bunch of other actors playing criminals have to stage continuous barroom brawls.

However, playing the criminal, he catches the eye of rich American tourist Gloria (Angelika Hauff), who mistakes him for a real criminal & wants to play with fire a little ... & Gloria's father Mr Jefferson (Jakob Tietdke) owns the Halifax, an immensely valuable diamond that 2 real criminals, Moustache (Otto Matthies) & Pitou (Gustav Knuth) desperately want to try to get their hands on ... & for some reason they think it's a great idea to incorporate André intlo their plans - & after a bit of persuasion André even agrees.

Somehow Moustache & André even succeed in robbing the Halifax, but somehow, they failed to bring the Halifax with them (!), & from here on major confusion ensues, with everyone being in possion of the Halifax at one point or another without knowing it & both Mr Jefferson & his wife (Trude Hesterberg) - the legal owners of the Halifax - being thrown into prison for stealing the Halifax, but in the end, Mr Jefferson gets back the Halifax, André gets Gloria & Moustache & Pitou get a few years in prison ...

 

With the beginning of the sound-era, Heinz Rühmann rose to fame playing the likeable everyman in a sheer endless string of light comedies, & he would continue to make them when Hitler rose to power & all during World War 2. After the war, when all that was popular in Nazi Germany seemed suspicious, his creer ran into dire straits ... & Das Geheimnis der Roten Katze was an attempt to revive past glories.

As a film though, this light crime comedy with musical interludes is rather dull, shallow & not particularly funny (as in fact were many of Rühmann's pre-war comedies) with nothing to really give it redeeming value

Rühmann's career though wouldn't pick up momentum again until the 1960's, when he played (amongst many other things) his most memorable roles as Good Soldier Schwejk, Inspector Maigret & of course Father Brown. His last role by the way was a bigger supporting part in Wim Wenders' Far Away so Close.

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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