A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Release Date:
August 5, 1930
Original Title:
Im Kampf mit der Unterwelt
Alternate Titles:
Das Geheimnis der fünf Schlüssel
Ich träum vom ersten Kuß
Genres:
Crime | Thriller
Production Companies:
Aldini-Film
Production Countries:
Germany
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 95
A banker who had fallen out with his family stipulated in his will that his fortune should only pass to the person in possession of the five keys he distributed to his relatives during his lifetime 80 years after his death. Only with all five keys can the cassette in the vault of a bank be opened, granting access to the deceased's assets. 75 years after the banker's death, the fugitive crook Murphy comes into possession of one of the keys, together with a list of the names of the owners of the four remaining keys. Over the next five years, he manages to obtain two more keys by criminal means. Now he just has to get the fourth key from Carlo and the fifth key from the young, rich widow Maria. Any means will do. But the unscrupulous villain has not reckoned with Carlo's shrewdness, who initially falls under suspicion himself, but then takes up the pursuit of the criminal.
Director:
Carlo Aldini
Director of Photography:
Georg Krause
Ewald Sudrow
Makeup Department Head:
Christian Köring
Music Supervisor:
Michael Buchstab
Original Music Composer:
Will Meisel
Michael Buchstab
Producer:
Carlo Aldini
Production Design:
Max Heilbronner
Production Manager:
Jacob Brodsky
Still Photographer:
Werner Teschendorf
Eugen Rubin
Unit Manager:
E. D. Leonhard
Writer:
Walter Jonas
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