Swifter Than Death
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| Swifter Than Death | |
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| Directed by | Harry Piel Gérard Bourgeois |
| Written by | Gérard Bourgeois Edmund Heuberger Herbert Nossen Harry Piel |
| Starring | Harry Piel Dary Holm Denise Legeay José Davert |
| Cinematography | Georg Muschner Gotthardt Wolf |
Production companies | Hape-Film Gaumont |
Release date |
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Running time | 97 minutes |
| Countries | France Germany |
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Swifter Than Death (German: Schneller als der Tod, French: Face à la mort) is a 1925 French-Germany silent action film directed by Gérard Bourgeois and Harry Piel and starring Piel, Dary Holm, Denise Legeay and José Davert.[1] It was shot at the Cité Elgé Studios in Paris and on location in Munich and the Côte d'Azur. The film's sets were designed by the art director Fritz Kraenke .
Cast
[edit | edit source]- Harry Piel as Harry Piel
- Denise Legeay as Lizzie
- José Davert as Jack Brown
- Fred Berger as Éric Holsen
- Dary Holm as Christensen
- Marguerite Madys as Yvette Riccoldi
- Paul Guidé as Le duc de Frontignac
- Albert Paulig as L'éditeur Riccoldi
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Elsaesser & Wedel p.191
Bibliography
[edit | edit source]- Elsaesser, Thomas & Wedel, Michael. The BFI companion to German cinema. British Film Institute, 1999.
External links
[edit | edit source]- Swifter Than Death at IMDbLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
Categories:
- 1925 films
- Films of the Weimar Republic
- French silent feature films
- 1920s French films
- German silent action films
- French action films
- 1925 action films
- German silent feature films
- Films directed by Harry Piel
- 1920s German films
- Gaumont (company) films
- Films shot at Cité Elgé Studios
- 1920s German silent film stubs