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This work reconstructs the circumstances surrounding this unusual international co-production (Atoll K was a French-Italian film with English-speaking stars). Through lost documents detailing the films production and funding, previously unreleased behind-the-scenes photos, and a rare interview with French movie star Suzy Delair (Chrie Lamour), the author explores the continuous changes to the films script during its chaotic production and the final marketing of the films many different versions.

Until recently, it was assumed that the Nazis agitated against Chaplin from 1931 to 1933, and then again from 1938, when his plan to make The Great Dictator became public. This book demonstrates that Nazi agitation against Chaplin was in fact a constant from 1926 through the Third Reich. When The Gold Rush was released theatrically in the Weimar Republic in 1926, the Nazis began to fight Chaplin, whom they alleged to be Jewish. Soon after, they attempted to expose him as an intellectual property thief whose fame had faded. In early 1935, the film The Gold Rush was explicitly banned from...

Laurel und Hardy, eines der berühmtesten Komiker-Duos der Filmgeschichte, erfreuten sich in Deutschland schon früh einer beispiellosen Popularität. Fast von Beginn an unter dem wenig schmeichelhaften und bis heute umstrittenen Künstlernamen 'Dick und Doof' bekannt, gewannen die beiden Schauspieler hier bereits zu Zeiten der Weimarer Republik eine beachtliche Fangemeinde für sich. Selbst während des Naziregimes konnten sich die beiden Meister der Groteske zunächst weiter glänzend behaupten. Erst die seit 1936 einsetzende Einfuhrbeschränkung amerikanischer Filme nach Deutschland...