Game on Board

{{Short description|1936 film}} {{Infobox film | name = Game on Board | image = Game on Board.jpg | alt = | caption = | director = [[Herbert Selpin]] | producer = Martin Pichert | writer = {{ubl|[[Axel Ivers]] (play)|Herbert Selpin|[[Walter Zerlett-Olfenius]]}} | screenplay = | story = | based_on = | narrator = | starring = {{ubl|[[Viktor de Kowa]]|[[Susi Lanner]]|[[Alfred Abel]]}} | music = {{ubl|[[Michael Jary]]|[[Heinrich Strecker]]}} | cinematography = [[Bruno Timm]] | editing = Alexandra Anatra | studio = Neucophon Tonfilm-Produktion | distributor = [[Terra Film]] | released = {{film date|1936|11|3|df=y}} | runtime = 82 minutes | country = Germany | language = [[German language|German]] | budget = | gross = }} '''''Game on Board''''' ({{langx|de|'''Spiel an Bord'''}}) is a 1936 German [[comedy film|comedy]] [[crime film]] directed by [[Herbert Selpin]] and starring [[Viktor de Kowa]], [[Susi Lanner]] and [[Alfred Abel]].<ref>Bock & Bergfelder p. 443</ref> [[Location shooting]] took place in [[Bremerhaven]] and [[New York City|New York]] and on the [[Atlantic]] crossing of the [[ocean liner]] ''[[SS Bremen (1928)|SS Bremen]]''. Interior scenes were shot at the [[Tempelhof Studios]] in [[Berlin]]. The film's sets were designed by the [[art director]] [[Erich Czerwonski]].

==Synopsis== Young [[chauffeur]] Viktor boards an ocean liner as a [[stowaway]] on an [[Atlantic]] crossing to America. A series of mistaken identities follow as he is confused for a [[millionaire]] travelling incognito, and is also able to thwart the schemes of two [[fraudsters]] on board.

==Cast== * [[Viktor de Kowa]] as Viktor Müller * [[Susi Lanner]] as Susanne Rauh, Sekretärin * [[Alfred Abel]] as I. C. Corner, Konzernchef * [[Carsta Löck]] as Fräulein Distelmann, Politesse * [[Jakob Tiedtke]] as Herr Henning * [[Erika Bert]] as Astrid, seine Tochter * [[Hubert von Meyerinck]] as Marquis de la Tours, ein Betrüger * [[Paul Heidemann]] as Baron von Western, sein Komplize * [[Ernst Waldow]] as Corner Sekretär Black * [[Günther Lüders]] as Matrose * [[Erich Fiedler]] as Obersteward * [[Hans Joachim Schaufuß]] as Boy Horst * [[Edith Meinhard]] as erste Bewerberin für den Sekretärinposten * [[Max Wilmsen]] as Hafenarbeiter * [[Fritz Draeger]] as Steward * [[Lothar Devaal]] as Steward * [[Curt Lauermann]] as Besatzungsmitglied * [[Jutta von Remsky]] as zweite Bewerberin für den Sekretärinposten * [[Curt de Planque]] as Tänzer im Speisesaal * [[Ferdinand Robert]] as Passagier im Speisesaal * [[Klaus Seiwert]] as Passagier im Speisesaal * [[Ernst Stimmel]] * [[Flora Berthold]]

==References== {{Reflist}}

==Bibliography== * {{cite book | editor-first1 = Hans-Michael | editor-last1 = Bock | editor-first2 = Tim | editor-last2 = Bergfelder | title = The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema | publisher = Berghahn Books | year = 2009 | isbn = 978-1-57181-655-9 }}

==External links== *{{IMDb title|0028293}}

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