The Kidnapping of Fux the Banker
Country
CzechoslovakiaCopyright
1923Production year
1923Premiere
31 December 1923Runtime
43 minDirector
Karel AntonCategory
filmGenre
comedyTypology
featuretheatrical distributionmediumOriginal title
Únos bankéře FuxeCzech title
Únos bankéře FuxeEnglish title
The Kidnapping of Fux the BankerParallel title
Sherlock Holmes II.Summary
The comedy Únos brankáře Fuxe was made by director Karel Anton in 1923 who added this film to his Anton Comedies serie. The banker's daughter, Daisy Fux, decides to marry her father off to her girlfriend. For this plan she used a newspaper advertisement. On this occasion, she meets handsome Tom Darey, who is in debt. However, things gradually become more complicated, and a cycle of confusion, chases, disguises, and total madness, including an accidental kidnapping of banker Fux, police pursuit and internment in an asylum. Eventually, everything comes to climax and happy ending. The film benefits from the success and conventions of American slapstick. In the film are represented typical characters such as mischievous heroine, sympathetic male hero, infatuated detective Sherlock Holmes II, loyal servant Karel, uptight governess, comic aristocrat, clueless police chief with rest of the officers dressed as Keystone corps. The lead couple was represented by the world-famous couple at that time, Anny Ondráková and Karel Lamač. Also in other roles starred some other popular actors and comedians of the time, such as Eman Fiala, Theodor Pištěk, Saša Rašilov and Josef Šváb-Malostranský. Already in 1954, director Jan S. Kolár reconstructed the film according to the original cut and added missing intertitles.
Synopsis
The banker Fux and his creditor Tom Darey want to get married. The banker's daughter Daisy in her father's name, put an advertisement in a paper. She wants father to meet her friend Maud. She, herself, makes the acquaintance of Darey who has her followed by detective Sherlock Holmes II. The latter finds her and tries to kidnap her but he takes her father instead. After a number of intrigues, all ends well. Holmes is let off the hook and Tom and the banker win their girls.
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Cast
Adi Berger
bankéř C. W. Fux
Anny Ondráková
Fuxova dcera Daisy
Karel Lamač
Tom Darey
Bronislava Livia
Maud Gouldová, přítelkyně Daisy
Eman Fiala
detektiv Sherlock Holmes II.
Emilie Nitschová
Daisina vychovatelka
Karel Fiala
Dareyův sluha Karel
Theodor Pištěk
vévoda z Pommery
Saša Rašilov
náčelník policie
Paul Poiret
pařížský král módy
Jan W. Speerger
lupič
Přemysl Pražský
ředitel blázince
Ferdinand Fiala
žalářník
Josef Šváb-Malostranský
strážník
Josef Volman
strážník
Josef Zora
strážník
Alois Dvorský
vousatý strážník
Anna Švarcová
hospodyně u Holmese
Vladimír Slavínský
host na večírku
Jára Kohout
host na večírku
Anna Tichá
host na večírku
Emanuel Brožík
lékař v blázinci
Václav Srb
blázen v kleci
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Director
Screenstory
Screenplay
Director of Photography
Second Unit Photography
Production Designer
Production info
Original Title
Únos bankéře Fuxe
Czech Title
Únos bankéře Fuxe
English Title
The Kidnapping of Fux the Banker
Parallel Title
Sherlock Holmes II.
Category
film
Typology
featuretheatrical distribution
Genre
comedy
Origin country
Czechoslovakia
Copyright
1923
Production Year
1923
Premiere
premiere 31 December 1923 /unsuitable for youths/ (kina Hvězda, Beseda a Konvikt, Praha)
Production
Copyright Holders
Studio
Distribution
Technical info
Duration typology
medium length film
Duration in minutes
43 min
Original length in metres
1 200 meters
Distribution carrier
35mm
Aspect ratio
1:1,33
Colour
black & white
Sound
silent
Versions
Czech
Dialogue languages
without dialogue
Subtitles languages
without subtitles
Intertitles languages
Czech
Opening/End credits languages
Czech
