Bombs on Monte Carlo (1960 film)

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Bombs on Monte Carlo
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German film poster
German Bomben auf Monte Carlo
Directed by Georg Jacoby
Written by
Based on Bombs on Monte Carlo
by Fritz Reck-Malleczewen
Produced by Gero Wecker
Starring Eddie Constantine
Marion Michael
Gunther Philipp
Cinematography
Edited byLiselotte Schumacher
Music by Werner R. Heymann
Willy Mattes
Production
company
Arca-Filmproduktion
Distributed byNeue Filmverleih
Release date
  • 11 March 1960 (1960-03-11)
Running time
86 minutes
CountryWest Germany
LanguageGerman

Bombs on Monte Carlo (German : Bomben auf Monte Carlo) is a 1960 German comedy film directed by Georg Jacoby and starring Eddie Constantine, Marion Michael and Gunther Philipp. [1] The film was based on a novel by Fritz Reck-Malleczewen which had already been adapted as a film in 1931 as Bombs on Monte Carlo .

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Location shooting took place in Monaco, Nice and at the Schleissheim Palace in Munich. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Ernst H. Albrecht and Niko Matul.

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References

  1. Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim, eds. (2009). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. New York: Berghahn Books. p. 223. ISBN   1571816550. JSTOR   j.ctt1x76dm6.