Viktor Schott, daredevil and womanizer, is charged by his father, a jeweler, to go to Istanbul and purchase a valuable emerald necklace from a rich Persian and to bring it back by ship to Marseille. A pair of criminals are watching him and attractive Delia, with whom Viktor is in love, is used as bait. His boyhood friend Sibyl, who is in love with Viktor, warns him of the criminal ship owner and the captain, who intend to steal the jewel during a masked ball on board. Shortly before reaching the coast of France, an explosion causes the ship to capsize.
Production
The capsizing sequence is impressively ambitious for 1934.
Costume
Masked ball costumes scream unhinged Art Deco excess.
Director
Hans Steinhoff
Jakob Tiedtke
Juwelier Schott
Viktor de Kowa
Schott junior
Fritz Rasp
de Groot, ihr Vormund
Oskar Sima
Makarian
Hilde Weissner
Delia Donovan
Josef Dahmen
1. Bandit
Jessie Vihrog
Sibyl Termeer
Paul Westermeier
Robert
Gerhard Bienert
1. Offizier
Hugo Fischer-Köppe
2. Offizier
Hans Hermann Schaufuß
Herr an Bord
Gustav Püttjer
Matrose
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