Who Drove the Grey Ford?

1950 film
  • Otto Wernicke
  • Ursula Herking
  • Hilde Sessak
CinematographyPaul PfeifferEdited byWalter BoosMusic byEmil Ferstl
Production
company
Pfeiffer Filmproduktion
Distributed byBejöhr-Film
Release date
  • 12 October 1950 (1950-10-12)
Running time
94 minutesCountryWest GermanyLanguageGerman

Who Drove the Grey Ford? (German: Wer fuhr den grauen Ford?) is a 1950 West German crime film directed by Otto Wernicke and starring Wernicke, Ursula Herking and Hilde Sessak.[1] Many scenes of the film were shot on location.

Synopsis

In the American Zone of Germany shortly after the Second World War, a gang of criminals make a living from hijacking trucks full of valuable goods. A local police detective investigates.

Cast

  • Otto Wernicke as Kriminalkommissar Thieme
  • Ruth Hambrock as Renate Münster
  • Erich Scholz as Peteer 'Penny'
  • Ursula Herking as Hertha Sattler, Kriminalassistentin
  • Til Kiwe as Polizeirat Proske
  • Hilde Sessak as Kellnerin bei Edu Schröder
  • Marianne Gerzner as Rosl
  • Günther Erich Marsch as Jonny Dempf
  • Wolfgang Neuss as Uwe Lauterbach, 'Chef'
  • Dieter Sommer as Franz Heiner
  • Walter Vits-Mühlen as US-Kriminalkommissar Nelson
  • Walter Pott as Edu Schröder, Wirt
  • Abi von Hasse as Kriminalassistent Gillhausen
  • Herbert Doberauer
  • Georg Zimmermann as Hamerski, Oberpostschaffner

References

  1. ^ Davidson & Hake p. 59

Bibliography

  • Davidson, John & Hake, Sabine. Framing the Fifties: Cinema in a Divided Germany. Berghahn Books, 2007.

External links

  • Who Drove the Grey Ford? at IMDb Edit this at Wikidata
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