Starring Gustav Fröhlich, Cornell Borchers, Adrienne Gessner, Heinz Conrads, Fritz Eckhardt
Directed by Emil E. Reinert (as Emile Edwin Reinert)
Print: Black and white
Runtime: 1 hr 29 min
Genre: crime, drama
The scene is postwar Vienna. Displaced person Toni Sponer (Gustav Froelich), employed as a cabdriver, wants to leave the city but has no identification papers. When one of his passengers is murdered, Toni appropriates the dead man's papers and "becomes" one Jack Mortimer. Unfortunately, there are several shady characters around and about who want Jack Mortimer dead. The location-filmed finale finds Toni at the mercy of the real Mortimer's murderer. Four different production companies had a hand in the making of this minor melodrama.
Starring Gustav Fröhlich, Cornell Borchers, Adrienne Gessner, Heinz Conrads, Fritz Eckhardt
Directed by Emil E. Reinert (as Emile Edwin Reinert)
Print: Black and white
Runtime: 1 hr 29 min
Genre: crime, drama
The scene is postwar Vienna. Displaced person Toni Sponer (Gustav Froelich), employed as a cabdriver, wants to leave the city but has no identification papers. When one of his passengers is murdered, Toni appropriates the dead man's papers and "becomes" one Jack Mortimer. Unfortunately, there are several shady characters around and about who want Jack Mortimer dead. The location-filmed finale finds Toni at the mercy of the real Mortimer's murderer. Four different production companies had a hand in the making of this minor melodrama.
