One Too Many on Board

One Too Many on Board

85 mins | Crime | Oct. 31, 1935

During a journey of the "Ceder", the Captain, von Moltmann, disappears. It looks like an accident, but it could also have been murder. Attorney Dr. Burger and superintendent Störensen discover quickly that two of the crewmen hated the Captain: Chief officer Rohlfs suspects an affair between his fianceé Gerda and von Moltmann. Chief engineer Sparkuhl thinks the Captain has seduced his niece, who later committed suicide. The court decides that the Captain has gone overboard without anyone else's "help", but the rumors don't come to an end.

One Too Many on Board

85 mins | Crime | Oct. 31, 1935

One Too Many on Board
During a journey of the "Ceder", the Captain, von Moltmann, disappears. It looks like an accident, but it could also have been murder. Attorney Dr. Burger and superintendent Störensen discover quickly that two of the crewmen hated the Captain: Chief officer Rohlfs suspects an affair between his fianceé Gerda and von Moltmann. Chief engineer Sparkuhl thinks the Captain has seduced his niece, who later committed suicide. The court decides that the Captain has gone overboard without anyone else's "help", but the rumors don't come to an end.
Producers Universum Film (UFA)
Original title Einer zuviel an Bord
Directors Gerhard Lamprecht
Writers

Cast

Lída Baarová

as Gerda Hegert

Albrecht Schoenhals

as Kapitän von Moltmann

René Deltgen

as I. Offizier Rohlfs

Willy Birgel

as Staatsanwalt Dr. Burger

Grethe Weiser

as Lou Schmidt, Bardame

Alexander Golling

as Kommissar Sörensen

Rudolf Platte

as Maximilian Wresky, Schauspieler