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Director
  
Erich Waschneck

Music director
  
Werner Eisbrenner

Editor
  
Erich Kobler

Language
  
German

5.4/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Adventure, Western

Cinematography
  
Werner Krien

Duration
  

Country
  
Germany

Writer
  
Hans Bertram
,
George Hurdalek
,
Wolf Neumeister

Release date
  
30 December 1938

Genres
  
Western, Adventure Film, Drama film

Cast
  
Kirsten Heiberg
(Violet),
Viktor Staal
(Douglas),
Elfie Mayerhofer
(Kitty),
Grethe Weiser
(Mdm. Doolittle),
Hubert von Meyerinck
(Tanzmanager),
Wolfgang Kieling
(Pat)

Women for Golden Hill (German: Frauen für Golden Hill) is a 1938 German drama film directed by Erich Waschneck and starring Kirsten Heiberg, Viktor Staal and Elfie Mayerhofer. The fim's sets were designed by the art directors Gustav A. Knauer and Alexander Mügge. The all-male inhabitants of an Australian mining camp send off for some mail order brides from Sydney. Two men refuse to join in, but their friend secretly arranges for two wives for them. Unfortunately one of them proves to be his own abandoned wife, who takes up with him again. This means a love triangle develops between the two men around the remaining woman.

The film was shot at the Babelsberg Studio and on location at Kurische Nehrung in East Prussia, which stood in for Australia. The film premiered on 30 December in Frankfurt, but was not a major box office hit.

Cast

  • Kirsten Heiberg as Violet
  • Viktor Staal as Douglas
  • Elfie Mayerhofer as Kitty
  • Grethe Weiser as Mdm. Doolittle
  • Hubert von Meyerinck as Tanzmanager
  • Olaf Bach as Bully
  • Ernst Waldow as Cocky
  • Otto Gebühr as Kirkwood
  • Anna Grandi as Gwendolin
  • Wolfgang Kieling as Pat
  • Hans Adalbert Schlettow as Thomas Trench
  • Paul Dahlke as Barryman
  • Lotte Rausch as Alice Bedford
  • Wilhelm König as O'Neilly
  • Waltraut von Negelein as Dorothy
  • Ilse Petri as Margaret
  • Jack Trevor as Larry
  • Albert Venohr as Algenon
  • Emmy Harold as Louise
  • Hans Joachim Schölermann as Frank
  • Lilly Towska as Barbara
  • Gustav Püttjer as Bill
  • Erika Glässner as Miss Kellington
  • Margot Erbst as Elisabeth
  • Kurt Iller as Pierre
  • Edith von Donat as Emmy
  • Kurt Weisse as Doran
  • Grete Reinwald as Brigitt
  • Wolfgang Kuhle as Managan
  • Alfred Köhler as Josua
  • Josefine Bachert as Mammy
  • Hannelore Dworski as Daisy
  • Erich Ziegler as Reverend Jones
  • Erich Walter as Staatsbeamter
  • Albert Florath as Secretary
  • Werner Schott as Flughafenkommandant
  • Harry Gondi as Pilot Jim
  • Karl Martell as Stanley
  • References

    Women for Golden Hill Wikipedia
    Women for Golden Hill IMDb Women for Golden Hill themoviedb.org