The Yellow House of Rio

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The Yellow House of Rio or The Yellow House of King-Fu (French: La maison jaune de Rio, German: Das gelbe Haus des King-Fu) is a 1931 French-German crime thriller film directed by Karl Grune and starring Charlotte Susa, Gustav Diessl and Karl Günther.^[1][2] The film was based on a novel of the same title by Josef M. Velter. It was shot at the Joinville Studios of Pathé in a co-production with Bavaria Film. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Otto Erdmann and Hans Sohnle. Separate German French-language versions were produced, the latter directed by Grune and Robert Péguy and featuring Renée Héribel and Charles Vanel.^[3] The German version was originally also planned to be released as The Yellow House of Rio, but to avoid confusion with another film released at the same time Road to Rio, it was retitled.

Cast

German version

• Charlotte Susa as Anita
• Gustav Diessl as King-Fu / Scalpa
• Karl Günther as Smell
• Carla Gidt as Carlotta
• Willy Prager as Theaterdirektor
• Paul Graetz as Phlegmatiker
• Károly Huszár as Enthusiast
• Louis Ralph as Spießgeselle
• Jaro Fürth as Spießgeselle
• Andrews Engelmann as Spießgeselle

French version

• Charles Vanel as King-Fu / Scalpa
• Jacques Maury as Un cabotin suffisant
• Henri Valbel
• Édouard Hardoux as Le directeur du théâtre
• Jean-François Martial
• Robert Guilbert
• Andrews Engelmann
• Renée Héribel as La danseuse Anita
• Hélène Robert

References

Bibliography

• Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.
• Klaus, Ulrich J. Deutsche Tonfilme: Jahrgang 1931. Klaus-Archiv, 2006.

External links

• French version at IMDb
• German version at IMDb