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The adored trapeze artist Cora is married to the respected doctor Frank Crippen. After a party at home with the Crippens, Cora suddenly disappeared. Apparently she left for Brazil alone overnight. But a friend of the couple is skeptical and calls the police. While digging up the garden, Chief Inspector Düwell makes a terrible discovery.

Bruno Rehak in Dr. Crippen an Bord (1942)

An exciting Murder mystery,during the war

This was the type of movie that the state had allowed the studios ,in Germany, to produce to help citizens to forget the harsh realities of war.This was no political Nazi propaganda,It takes place in 1928,the height of the Wiemar period,but, as with Hollywood back in the forties ,when making a film about the twenties,the styles and hairdo&#39;s are in accurate and reflect 1942.So Germany was accurate about the Biedermeier period ,when they made films about that time,but, modern past inaccurate.This is about Murder planned by Dr Crippen,played by Rudolph Fernau, and his secretary and mistress , Lucy,played by Gertrud Meyen, against Crippen&#39;s wife,Cora,played by Anja Elkoff.She was a trapeze artist who retired,whom she had an admirers, a painter name Arnoldi ,played by Rolf Weih, and a wolf,who also performed on the stage professor Morrison,played by O.E Hasse. In a dinner party Morrison tries to make a pass at her behind Crippens back and she rejects Morrison .All of a sudden She disappears .Morrison,being in love with her makes checks to see what might of happened to her.Then Arnodi sees in a news paper that she is taking a trip to Rio.Not satisfied,he goes to the inspector Duwlle,played by Rene Deltgen,the big Game, and Inspector Michael,played by Walter Lieck,Munchhausen,Golden City.So both check around.They go to Crippens and ask him questions.They later get suspicious and come back to the house and their gone,He calls the new about suspicion that Crippen Murder his wife and he might be on that steam boat.The steward,played by Heinz Schorlemmer ,Gasparone ,looks at the news paper and gets suspicious at the orthodox Priest and a young boy with him. Both Crippens and Lucy in disguise.Well then you got Ernst Waldow as the Surgeon and Max Gulstorf as the Captain ,Once they have been convinced,they decide to trick Crippen playing the orthodox preacher to be sure .They send Rene the message,Rene goes to the ship and eventually traps Crippens.They take him back to France for an inquest.Paul Dahlke is his lawyer and tries to put the blame on Morrison,this case Rolf does not show up at all.Then Rene does something crazy to prove Crippens was guilty.He goes to the studio ,who made this film and takes the edited footage and set a projector at the inquest ,which reveals Crippens poisoning his wife .Where the film makers trying to be sarcastic?that was strange. 12/9/14

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Dr. Crippen an Bord

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