The Night Without Pause

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The Night Without Pause
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Directed by
Written by
Produced by Joe Pasternak
Starring
Cinematography Károly Vass
Edited by Wolfgang Becker
Music by Otto Stransky
Production
companies
Distributed byDeutsche Universal-Film
Release date
  • 22 December 1931 (1931-12-22)
Running time
87 minutes
CountryGermany
LanguageGerman

The Night Without Pause (German : Die Nacht ohne Pause) is a 1931 German comedy film directed by Andrew Marton and Franz Wenzler and starring Sig Arno, Camilla Horn and Max Adalbert. [1] It was made by the German subsidiary of Universal Pictures in partnership with Tobis Film. It was shot at the Johannisthal Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by Fritz Maurischat and Gabriel Pellon. It is based on a popular stage farce by Ernst Bach and Franz Arnold, and was remade in 1952.

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When his wife becomes suspicious that he is having an affair after discovering incriminating evidence, Julius Seipold manages to convince her that it is his innocuous assistant Max who is having a relationship. He invents a wild backstory about Max, which in turn fascinates the Julius Seipold's daughter Gertie.

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References

  1. Waldman p. 193

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