I Was Jack Mortimer

Release Date: 1935-10-16

Overview: The jealous star conductor Montemayor knows that his beautiful younger wife, Winifred, is cheating on him with an American named Jack Mortimer. After the concert rehearsal, he takes a taxi to the train station, sees Mortimer and shoots him at an intersection from the backseat of his taxi. The shot is not heard during the traffic noise. The taxi driver, Sponer, sitting in his car with the now-dead Mortimer, goes into a panic.

Rating: 5 / 10

Cast

Anton Walbrook

as Ferdinand 'Fred' Sponer

Eugen Klöpfer

as Pedro Montemayor

Sybille Schmitz

as Winifred Montemayor

Marieluise Claudius

as Marie Polikow

Hilde Hildebrand

as Daisy