FRANK HANSEN’S FORTUNE

1914, Germany / Denmark [?]

Aka... Frank Hansens Glück / ‘Frank Hansen's Luck’ (Ger),

Ex... Eltiport Emberek / ‘Squashed People/ (Hun)

T: 1357/1350mt (Ger)

Pc: Messters Projektion [Oskar Messter] GmbH (Ber)

Dist: Messters Projektion [Oskar Messter] (05/17, Ger), Messters (08/17, Ger), Messters [?] (03/11/18, Hun)

Visa: 5546, (03/18/22, Ber)

D: Viggo Larsen; P: Oskar Messter; Sc: Robert Wiene

C: Viggo Larsen (The Glücklicher/the winner?), Lupu Pick (Balker), Kitty Dewall (Young woman), Leopold Gadiel, Viktor Senger

Syn: 3 acts. A Man gets stolen diamonds back from a thief.

Comm: The Dane Viggo Larsen directed and appeared in such films as TEXAS TEX (1907) and RED TRACKS (1921). FRANK HANSEN’S FORTUNE is listed at both earlycinema.dch.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de and westernsallitaliana.blogspot. The same year saw the sound-alike “Kapitän Hansens Abenteuer” (1917) released.

 

By Michael Ferguson