The Daredevil

{{Short description|1931 film directed by Richard Eichberg}} {{About|the 1931 German film|similar uses|Daredevil (disambiguation){{!}}Daredevil}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2020}} {{Infobox film | name = The Daredevil | image = The Daredevil (1931 film poster).jpg | caption = | director = [[Richard Eichberg]] | writer = {{ubl|[[Franz Höllering]] (novel)|[[Joseph Than]]|Richard Eichberg}} | producer = {{ubl|Richard Eichberg|Joseph Than}} | starring = {{ubl|[[Hans Albers]]|[[Gerda Maurus]]|[[Mártha Eggerth]]}} | narrator = | cinematography = {{ubl|[[Heinrich Gartner (cinematographer)|Heinrich Gartner]]|[[Bruno Mondi]]}} | editing = [[Willy Zeunert]] | music = [[Hans May]] | studio = Richard Eichberg-Film | distributor = Süd-Film | released = {{film date|1931|11|26|df=y}} | runtime = 92 minutes | country = Germany | language = German | budget = | gross = }} '''''The Daredevil''''' ({{langx|de|'''Der Draufgänger'''}}) is a 1931 German [[crime film]] directed by [[Richard Eichberg]] and starring [[Hans Albers]], [[Gerda Maurus]] and [[Mártha Eggerth]].<ref>Bock & Bergfelder p. 105</ref>

The film's sets were designed by the [[art directors]] [[Hans Minzloff]] and [[Jacek Rotmil]]. It was shot [[location filming|on location]] in [[Hamburg]] and at the [[Johannisthal Studios]] in [[Berlin]]. Eichberg's [[assistant director]] was [[Géza von Cziffra]].

==Synopsis== A [[Port of Hamburg]] policeman, known by his colleagues as "The Daredevil" because of his propensity for action, rescues a young woman from the water. She appears to be connected with an American millionaire whose yacht is cruising off shore.

==Cast== * [[Hans Albers]] as Hans Röder, Hafenpolizist * [[Sigurd Lohde]] as Fred Patterson, ein reicher Amerikaner * [[Ernst Stahl-Nachbaur]] as George Brown aka Mac Born * [[Gerda Maurus]] as Gloria - seine Freundin * [[Mártha Eggerth]] as Trude, Animierreiterin * [[Fritz Klippel]] as Parker, Browns Komplize * [[Reinhold Bernt]] as Willy, Stallmeister American Hyppodrom * [[Leonard Steckel]] as Barini, Inhaber American Hippodrom * [[Anna Müller-Lincke]] as Frau Pahlke, Inhaberin Artistenpension * [[Eugen Burg]] as Andersen, Kriminalkommissar * [[Senta Söneland]] as Fräulein Schönholz, Kriminalbeamtin * [[Alfred Beierle]] as Martin Timm, Hafenpolizist

== 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|0021816}}

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