Anybody who criticizes this film as being a forgettable melodrama tear-jerker may be perfectly right.
But what you get depends on what you expect. I expected a time-capsule that conveys feelings of 1950s Germany. What film-makers thought would sell well. And in this light, this wasn't exactly a bad experience.
Peter, a do-no-good, is involved with hatter's shop-girl Gerda - enough to make her pregnant, but not enough to marry her. Instead, he finds out that a very rich girl (whom he knows from school) has only months to live, and endeavors to marry her for the heritage.
His plan works out well. Only.. he finds that he'd rather see her live than die. An Italian doctor may find a cure, so he embezzles and smuggles company money to support his research...
Not sure how realistic this was back then, but I enjoyed the show (and O.W. Fisher plays the initial bad guy more convincingly than his later reformed part).
Reissued on DVD by ScreenPower, the soundtrack seems to have been filtered from all noise, so that the voices sometimes come through very low. Anyway, well worth the 5 I spent on it.
But what you get depends on what you expect. I expected a time-capsule that conveys feelings of 1950s Germany. What film-makers thought would sell well. And in this light, this wasn't exactly a bad experience.
Peter, a do-no-good, is involved with hatter's shop-girl Gerda - enough to make her pregnant, but not enough to marry her. Instead, he finds out that a very rich girl (whom he knows from school) has only months to live, and endeavors to marry her for the heritage.
His plan works out well. Only.. he finds that he'd rather see her live than die. An Italian doctor may find a cure, so he embezzles and smuggles company money to support his research...
Not sure how realistic this was back then, but I enjoyed the show (and O.W. Fisher plays the initial bad guy more convincingly than his later reformed part).
Reissued on DVD by ScreenPower, the soundtrack seems to have been filtered from all noise, so that the voices sometimes come through very low. Anyway, well worth the 5 I spent on it.