The Orplid Mystery

{{short description|1950 film directed by Helmut Käutner}} {{use dmy dates|date=February 2020}} {{Infobox film | name = The Orplid Mystery | image =The Orplid Mystery.jpg | caption = | director = [[Helmut Käutner]] | writer = {{ubl|[[Robert A. Stemmle]]|[[Fritz Böttger]]|Helmut Käutner|[[Artur Brauner]]}} | producer = Artur Brauner | starring = {{ubl|[[Horst Caspar]]|[[Bettina Moissi]]|[[O.E. Hasse]]}} | narrator = | cinematography = [[Werner Krien]] | editing = [[Johanna Meisel]] | music = [[Bernhard Eichhorn]] | studio = [[CCC Films]] | distributor = Allianz Filmverleih | released = {{film date|1950|9|29|df=y}} | runtime = 91 minutes | country = West Germany | language = [[German language|German]] | budget = | gross = }} '''''The Orplid Mystery''''' or '''''Epilogue''''' ({{langx|de|'''Epilog: Das Geheimnis der Orplid'''}}) is a 1950 West German [[thriller film]] directed by [[Helmut Käutner]] and starring [[Horst Caspar]], [[Bettina Moissi]], and [[O.E. Hasse]].<ref>Bergfelder p. 148</ref> The film did not perform well at the box office on its release.<ref>Davidson & Hake p. 50</ref>

It was made at the [[Spandau Studios]] of [[CCC Films]]. The film's sets were designed by the [[art director]] [[Emil Hasler]].

==Cast== {{cast listing| * [[Horst Caspar]] as Reporter Peter Zabel * [[Bettina Moissi]] as Malaienmädchen Leata * [[O.E. Hasse]] as Chefredakteur Dr. Mannheim * [[Hans Leibelt]] as Cheflektor Kurt Beckmann * [[Irene von Meyendorff]] as Christiane Bruckmann alias Conchita * [[Hilde Hildebrand]] as Mrs. Eleanor Hoopman * [[Jeanette Schultze]] as Lore Bruckmann, Conchitas Schwester * [[Fritz Kortner]] as Mr. P. L. Hoopman * [[Peter van Eyck]] as Steward Stefan Lund * [[Hans Christian Blech]] as Martin Jarzombeck, Bräutigam * [[Carl Raddatz]] as Pianist Aldo Siano * [[Arno Assmann]] as Tänzer Ermanno * [[Rolf von Nauckhoff]] as Pastor Johannes Klappstein * [[Paul Hörbiger]] as Musik-Clown 'The Great Teatch' * [[Arno Paulsen]] as Mr. Hill * [[Hans Stiebner]] as Der Koch * [[Horst Hächler]] as Klaus von Werth, Freund des Bräutigams * [[Gustav Püttjer]] as Kapitän Feddersen * [[Rolf Heydel]] as Hans Toysen, Lores Freund * [[Reinhard Kolldehoff]] as Funker * [[Horst Breitenfeld]] as Matrose * [[Peter Marx (actor)|Peter Marx]] as Maschinist * [[Helmut Bautzmann]] as Matrose * [[Rochus Langkau]] as Maschinist * [[Claus Schulz]] as Schiffsjunge * [[Camilla Spira]] as Pensionswirtin * [[Blandine Ebinger]] as Sekretärin Auskunftsbüro * [[Thea Thiele]] as Verkäuferin * [[Traute Baumbach]] as Bardame * [[Maria Besendahl]] as Schiffsjunge * [[Helmuth Helsig]] as Drobitsch * [[Erwin Biegel]] as Detektiv * [[Harro ten Brook]] as Maler Phil Urban * [[Adrian Hoven]] * [[Curtis Kreuger]] * [[Carl Kuhlmann]] * [[Helmut Käutner]] as Meteorologe * [[Willi Seemann]] as Funker 2 * [[Ilse Werner]] }}

== References == {{reflist}}

== Bibliography == * {{cite book | last = Bergfelder | first = Tim | title = International Adventures: German Popular Cinema and European Co-Productions in the 1960s | publisher = Berghahn Books | year = 2005 | orig-year = 2004 | location = New York | isbn = 978-1-57181-539-2 }} * {{cite book | last1 = Davidson | first1 = John | last2 = Hake | first2 = Sabine | title = Framing the Fifties: Cinema in a Divided Germany | publisher = Berghahn Books | year = 2009 | location = New York | isbn = 978-1-84545-536-1 }}

== External links == * {{IMDb title|0042437}}

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