I Was Jack Mortimer

Name: I Was Jack Mortimer
Director: Carl Froelich
Released: 1935
Duration: 85 min
Rating: 6.9
Cast: Anton Walbrook, Eugen Klöpfer, Sybille Schmitz, Marieluise Claudius, Max Gülstorff

1935 · 85 MIN · IMDB 6.9 · 60 VOTES · DIR. Carl Froelich

Overview

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.

Dialogue Timeline — 896 lines

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00:00:03 I have been Jack Mortimer

00:03:38 You see, Marie, we've been going steady for two years, and since last year I've been wanting to marry you.

00:06:41 "Pedro Montemayor. Beginning 8.30 - ALHAMBRA."

00:10:50 You've looked at a stranger.

00:13:48 Tell me, do you know something about car repair?

00:15:41 "dulli".

00:17:30 What would I do with another woman?

00:19:08 Your jealousy is almost ridiculous.

00:20:56 Damn it, my boss isn't a fraud.

00:23:52 - What's the matter? - The conductor is wanted on the telephone.

00:27:27 I have to make a call to my wife.

00:35:49 I love you

00:39:21 It's getting worse and worse.

00:43:37 Damn!

00:47:21 Am I disturbing?

00:49:10 And then I did it.

00:52:31 The bathroom.

00:56:38 Yes?

00:59:55 and you won't leave the room for half an hour.

01:03:00 People believe that I did it.

01:05:07 you're very much mistaken.

01:06:54 I haven't even dared look into the mirror, you were at once right behind me.

01:10:26 I wouldn't have told them anything.

01:14:15 Then sign the protocol.

Cast & Characters

Anton Walbrook Ferdinand 'Fred' Sponer, a Budapest taxi-driver Eugen Klöpfer Pedro Montemayor, a conductor Sybille Schmitz Winifred Montemayor, Pedro's wife Marieluise Claudius Marie Polikow Max Gülstorff Colonel Polikow, Marie's father Maria Loja Mrs. Polikow, Marie's mother Hilde Hildebrand Daisy Heinz Salfner Andrassy, Daisy's friend Jochen Hauer Doering, a taxi-driver Georg A. Profé Jack Mortimer

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed896

Dialogue density10.5 lines / min

First line00:00:03

Final line01:14:15

Production Record

DirectorCarl Froelich

LanguageGerman

IMDb votes60