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9.5mm film frames from my print (the optical sound track is seen on the left)


T.9761 (8 reel 9.5mm sound release by Pathéscope January 1956) 
"JEWELS OF BRANDENBURG"       USA May1947    Director: Eugene Forde
-------------------           Sol M. Wurtzel Productions
64mins B/W Cert "A"           Produced by: Sol M. Wurtzel
(Approx 64mins on 9.5)        Associate Producer: Paul Wurtzel
Drama                         Distributed by: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Produced at Sutherland Studios,  Los Angeles, USA
Screenplay by: Irving Elman, Irving Cummings Jnr., Robert G. North
Based on a story by: Irving Cumminga Jnr., Robert G. North
Music: Darrell Calker
Art Director: Robert Peterson                     Set Decoration: Albert Greenwood
Cinematography: Benjamin Kline                    Sound: John R. Carter, Earl Sitar
Editing: Frank Baldridge, William F. Claxton      Assistant Director: Earl Bellamy
Make-Up: Robert Cowan                             Production Manager: Howard Sheehan
                         Cinema Poster
Cast:   
        Richard Travis ......... Johnny Vickers
        Micheline Cheirel ...... Claudette Grandet
        Leonard Strong ......... Marcel Grandet
        Carol Thurston ......... Carmelita Mendoza
        Lewis Russell .......... Roger Hamilton
        Louis Mercier .......... Pierre Dijon
        Fernando Alverado ...... Pablo Mendoza
        Eugene Borden .......... Miquel Solomon
        Ralf Harolde ........... Koslic
        Lucille Casey .......... American Girl (uncredited)
        Jack Chefe ............. Henri - headwaiter (uncredited)
        Jean Fenwick ........... Roger's 'wife' (uncredited)
        Joel Friedkin .......... Prof. Barclay (uncredited)
        William Gould .......... Secret Service Chief with mustache (uncredited)
        Serge Krizman .......... Male Escort (uncredited)
        Wynne Larke ............ American Girl (uncredited)
        Gloria Marlen .......... Student (uncredited)
        Harro Mellor ........... Henchman (uncredited)
        Albert Petit ........... Piano Player (uncredited)
        Otto Reichow ........... Henchman (uncredited)
        Eddie Scarpa ........... Waiter (uncredited)        
 Johnny Vickers is a US government agent operating in London. Vickers puts a tail
 on the double agent Marcel Grandet, with whom he'd worked during World War II.
 Grandet has stolen a fortune in jewels during the war. With these jewels Grandet
 intends to finance a neo-Nazi movement. Posing as a fellow fascist, Travis is
 able to infiltrate the villains. But will Vickers be able to return the stolen
 jewels and save his own skin?  (from Robert - IMDb)

 When the famous Bradenburg Jewels are stolen, the USA government recalls John
 Vickers, now a professor of music, to resume his wartime role as a secret agent.
 He becomes a piano player in a Lisbon nightclub owned by suspect Marcel Grandet,
 an informant for both sides in the war.  Vickers meets an old girl friend,
 Carmolita Mendoza, who is now also a spy.  After several murders and shootings,
 the villains are rounded up. (Maurice Trace 9.5mm Sound Film Guide)
 'Front of House' picture

                       
Watch a clip from "Jewels Of Brandenburg" on You Tube 
(there is also a link to purchase the film on DVD)

Notes:
     1. The 9.5mm sound print appears to be complete at around 64 minutes..
     2. The Pathéscope Gazette magazine announced that:
        Distribution Rights were for the UK only.

     3. James Tinling was due to direct this film, but had emergency surgery prior 
        to production and was replaced by Eugene Forde. 

     4. Leonard Strong played an interpreter in the 1946 "Anna and the King Of Siam"
        and also the same role in the 1956 musical remake "The King and I"

     5. Micheline Cheriel was born Micheline Leriche - Cheriel is an anagram of Leriche.

     6. The two cars seen in the film are both right-hand drive.  The story is set in
        Portugal in the Mid-Forties and as that country had switched to driving on the
        right in the Twenties, one would expect left-hand drive.

     7. A few months after this film appeared on 9.5mm, New Realm re-issued it on 35mm
        in the UK, but with a running time slashed to 49 minutes.  I think by the 1950s
        most Pathéscope film releases (apart from Pathé News items) originated from E.J.
        Fancey companies like New Realm, DUK etc.
         
(Info edited from gln, Maurice Trace & International Movie database)       26.12.2014


Richard Travis and Leonard Strong 
A 'Front of House' picture (courtesy of Maurice Trace) 

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