Films & Directors
The Passing of the Third Floor Back
Filmmuseum/Synema/Filmarchiv, GB 1935, 90 min., OF
Thursday 19.03.
11:00, augartenkino kiz
Regie: Berthold Viertel
Script: Alma Reville, Michael Hogan, Anna Gmeyner (ungenannt), nach dem Stück von Jerome K. Jerome
Camera: Curt Courant
Editor: Derek N. Twist
Sound: F. McNally
Music: Hubert Bath
Props: Oscar Friedrich Werndorff
Cast: Conrad Veidt, Anna Lee, René Ray, Frank Cellier, John Turnbull, Cathleen Nesbitt, Ronald Ward, u.a.
Producer: Ivor Montagu, Michael Balcon
Production: Gaumont - British Picture Corporation
The script differs a great deal from the play, and also from Herbert Brenon's first filming of the same material in 1918. While relationships in Jerome's comedy of social criticism remain completely fluid, the scriptwriters gaze is directed mainly at the differences in class between the tenants – not least because they may encapsulate both Viertel's and Gmeyner's political views.
(Gerd Gemünden)