Monte Carlo Madness is a 1932 German

Cinema of Germany

Cinema in Germany can be traced back to the late 19th century. German cinema has made major technical and artistic contributions to film.Unlike any other national cinemas, which developed in the context of relatively continuous and stable political systems, Germany witnesses major changes to its...

 English-language musical

Musical film

The musical film is a film genre in which songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing. The songs usually advance the plot or develop the film's characters, though in some cases they serve merely as breaks in the storyline, often as elaborate...

 comedy film

Comedy film

Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. They are designed to elicit laughter from the audience. Comedies are mostly light-hearted dramas and are made to amuse and entertain the audiences...

 directed by Hanns Schwarz

Hanns Schwarz

Hanns Schwarz was an Austrian film director. He was born in Vienna in 1888. He directed twenty four films between 1924 and 1937 in both English and German. His last film was the 1937 British thriller Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel...

 and starring Sari Maritza

Sari Maritza

Sari Maritza was an actress in British films of the early 1930s.Born Dora Patricia Detring-Nathan in Tianjin, China, Maritza was the daughter of a wealthy industrialist and his Viennese wife. Her stage name was taken from the titles of two then famous European operettas: 'Sari' and 'Countess...

, Hans Albers

Hans Albers

Hans Philipp August Albers was a German actor and singer. He was the single biggest male movie star in Germany between 1930 and 1945 and one of the most popular German actors of the twentieth century.- Life and work :...

 and Charles Redgie. In Monte Carlo

Monte Carlo

Monte Carlo is an administrative area of the Principality of Monaco....

 a captain tries to raise the money to pay his crew at the gaming table, and meets and falls in love with a Queen. It was an English language version of the 1931 German film Monte Carlo Madnes

Monte Carlo Madnes

Monte Carlo Madnes is a 1931 German musical comedy film directed by Hanns Schwarz and starring Hans Albers, Anna Sten and Heinz Rühmann. It is based on the 1930 novel Bomben auf Monte Carlo by Fritz Reck-Malleczewen. A separate English language version Monte Carlo Madness and a French version Le...

, which was based on the 1930 novel Bomben auf Monte Carlo

Bomben auf Monte Carlo (novel)

Bomben auf Monte Carlo is a 1930 German comedy novel by Fritz Reck-Malleczewen. The penniless captain of a vessel puts into Monte Carlo, hoping to raise money at the gaming tables to pay his crew. While there he becomes entangled with a monarch in disguise....

by Fritz Reck-Malleczewen

Fritz Reck-Malleczewen

Friedrich Percival Reck-Malleczewen was a German author.Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen was born on the estate of Malleczewen, Masuria ,the son of the Prussian Politician and landowner Hermann Reck. He originally wanted to be a musician, and at one point studied medicine in Innsbruck...

.

The film was not a success. A review in Film Pictorial observed "Erich Pommer is a great producer, but in this film he does not live up to his established reputation.

Cast

• Sari Maritza
  Sari Maritza
  Sari Maritza was an actress in British films of the early 1930s.Born Dora Patricia Detring-Nathan in Tianjin, China, Maritza was the daughter of a wealthy industrialist and his Viennese wife. Her stage name was taken from the titles of two then famous European operettas: 'Sari' and 'Countess...
  
   ... Queen Yola
• Hans Albers
  Hans Albers
  Hans Philipp August Albers was a German actor and singer. He was the single biggest male movie star in Germany between 1930 and 1945 and one of the most popular German actors of the twentieth century.- Life and work :...
  
   ... Capt. Erickson
• Charles Redgie ... Peter
• Helen Haye
  Helen Haye
  Helen Haye was a British stage and film actress.She began acting on the stage in 1898 and debuted in London in 1911 as Gertrude in Hamlet. Her film career began in 1917. She often worked with director Alexander Korda...
  
   ... Isabel
• John Deverell
  John Deverell
  -Selected filmography:* John Forrest Finds Himself * Monte Carlo Madness * The King of Paris * The Divine Spark * The Girl in the Taxi * Incident in Shanghai -External links:...
  
   ... Consul
• C. Hooper Trask ... Prime Minister
• Comedian Harmonists
  Comedian Harmonists
  The Comedian Harmonists were an internationally famous, all-male German close harmony ensemble that performed between 1928 and 1934 as one of the most successful musical groups in Europe before World War II...
  
   ... Themselves
• Kapelle Carlo Minari ... Themselves - Orchestra