Once again Hans Alber portrays an engineer .But this time he works for Professor Auchenbach,portrayed by Friederick Kayssler.They are attempting to convert led into gold.But sabotage happens when their enemies spy Beck,played by Hansjoachim Buttner, To stick a bomb in the machine.He sneak out and it blows up killing the professor but Hans ,as Werner Holk,survives the and gets healed up.Two Henchmen show up from his enemy and offers work from their employers who does the same thing.He'll think it over.He realizes that this was the enemy so he going to go along with them to find the murderer out.This movie is just almost like Metropolis.The crooks under ground,located off shore in Scotland under water,looks very Science fiction.From the car that Hans rides in to enter the building from a tunnel,looks very futuristic.The machine that creates the gold looks almost exactly like the machine that was used in Dr x,1932.Lien Deyers plays Margit,Hans girl friend, that he leaves to found out who killed his employee.Michael Bohnen plays Wills,the one who murdered his employer to get the secret, Brigitte Helms,of Metrpolis Fame, plays Florence,his daughter.For the first time I heard her speak.She plays her character to be indifferent to her fathers.The scene where Hans ask her question about how he knows her.She tells him that she saw her father the first time in three month.She already told him ,her Popschy,that she was going to leave that day when Will begged her to stay and show Holk around.She later decides to stay cause she's falling in love to him.Ernest Karschow plays Willie Luders, who pretend also to be Charlie Jenkins.He ends up helping Holk.Well Holk ends up succeeding in making gold from lead.Which helps the greed of Wills.This creates an economical disaster all over the world.This movie has no Nazi propaganda in it.It seems to be anti authority.So Holks is about to fall in love with Florence when he discover that Will is just plain Gold lust.So he decides to send for Margit. Eventually he gets disgusted with Wills and tell the workers that he was the murderer.Everybody quits .Holks destroys the machine.Both he and Willi leave the through the tunnel.Will get killed.Holks goes back to his girl friend in Berlin. Hans includes his favorite hobby in front of the camera ,beer drinking.Rudolph Platt,German character actor stalwart,plays a reporter.3/30/12
Review of Gold
