{{short description|1929 film}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2020}} {{Infobox film | name = Death Drive for the World Record | image = | caption = | director = [[Kurt Blachy]] | producer = | writer = [[Fanny Reichwald]] | narrator = | starring = {{ubl|[[Hermann Stetza]]|[[Claire Rommer]]|[[Valerie Boothby]]}} | music = | editing = | cinematography = [[Bernhard Hellmund]] <br> [[Gustave Preiss]] | studio = Eisbär-Film | distributor = Eisbär-Film | released = {{Film date|1929|09|16|df=yes}} | runtime = | country = Germany | language = Silent <br> German [[intertitles]] | budget = | gross = }} '''''Death Drive for the World Record''''' (German: '''''Die Todesfahrt im Weltrekord''''') is a 1929 German [[silent film]] directed by [[Kurt Blachy]] and starring [[Hermann Stetza]], [[Claire Rommer]] and [[Valerie Boothby]].<ref>Bock & Bergfelder p.64</ref>

==Cast== * [[Hermann Stetza]] as Salto King, der kreisende Komet * [[Claire Rommer]] as Evelyn Hall * [[Valerie Boothby]] as Ellen Montis * [[Carl Auen]] as Graf Thierry * [[Bernhard Goetzke]] as Kommissar Wolter * [[Gerhard Dammann]] as Der Zirkusdirektor * [[Louis Brody]] as Salto King's Faktotum * Greif as Der Polizeihund

==References== {{Reflist}}

==Bibliography== * Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. ''The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema''. Berghahn Books, 2009.

==External links== *{{IMDb title|0356130}}

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