Word: ufa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ROCKET TO THE MOON?Vernesque romance of stellar exploration, vividly imagined by UFA...
...Rocket to the Moon (UFA). Originally called The Girl in the Moon, this was made in Germany under the direction of Hermann Oberth, German rocket experimenter. In the belly of the gigantic rocket, tearing at 24,000 m.p.h. toward the dark face of the moon which no human being has ever seen, strapped down and writhing with the terrific pressure among fantastic instruments of control, is shown a nice old-fashioned love triangle consisting of two scientists and the girl for whose favor they are rivals. There is also one of the backers of the flight and the inventor...
...Tiger Von Berlin (UFA). Disstinctly the most competent European talkie presented in the U. S. to date, Der Tiger Von Berlin is a murder mystery with German dialog and a German cast. It concerns the efforts of the Berlin police to get hold of a killer, known as the Tiger, who shoots his victims through the forehead before robbing them. Suspense gathers force by concentration; it is not distributed loosely among many characters, but narrowed quickly to two and still so deftly juggled that the ending is a surprise. There are only two murders in the course of the action...
...Wonderful Lies of Nina Petrova (UFA). For the last year UFA has been making an obvious attempt to inject its product with box-office values imitated from Hollywood?an attempt which has not been very successful because the Hollywood patterns selected for imitation have all been a year or two old. The Wonderful Lies of Nina Petrova is a sombre melodrama about a young woman who leaves a Russian general to become the mistress of a lieutenant and who goes back to the general again to save her lover, a cheat at cards, from public disgrace. It is familiar material...