ID

FBW000270      Fiction

Country / Year

USA, 1941

Original Title

Man Hunt

Other Title(s)

Menschenjagd [TV] (German)
Chasse à l'Homme [FR] / Rogue Male [AT]

Directed by

Fritz Lang

Produced by

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., Los Angeles, CA / New York, NY

Staff

Executive producer: Darryl F. Zanuck; Associate producer: Kenneth MacGowan, Len Hammond; Production manager: William Koenig; Location manager: Ben Silvey; Assistent director: Ad Schaumer; Script: Dudley Nichols; Script contributor: Jules Furthman, Lamar Trotti; Based on: Geoffrey Household ("Rogue Male" / Roman); Dialogue coach: Queenie Leonard (for Joan Bennett); Camera: Arthur Miller; Special optical effects: Fred Sersen; Editing: Allen McNeil; Sound: Eugene Grossmann, Roger Heman; Art direction: Richard Day, Wiard B. Ihnen; Technical consultant: William Farquhar, Howard Batt, William Kelley (Subway construction supervision); Set decoration: Thomas Little; Costumes: Travis Banton; Music: Alfred Newman

Cast

Walter Pidgeon (Captain Alan Thorndike); Joan Bennett (Jerry Stokes); George Sanders (Major Quive-Smith); John Carradine (Mr. Jones); Roddy McDowall (Vaner, Cabin Boy); Ludwig Stoessel (als: Ludwig Stossel) (Doctor); Heather Thatcher (Lady Alice Risborough); Frederick Worlock (Lord Gerald Risborough); Roger Imhof (Captain Jensen); Egon Brecher (Whiskers, Jeweler); Holmes Herbert (Saul Farnsworthy); Frederick Vogeding (German Ambassador); Lucien Prival (Umbrella Man); Herbert Evans (Reeves, the butler); Adolf Edgar Licho (Little Fat Man); Eily Malyon (Postmistress at Lyme Regis); John Rogers (Cockney); Lester Matthews (RAF Major); Arno Frey (Fake Police Lieutenant); Keith Hitchcock (London Bobby); Otto Reichow (Scharführer Eckner); Robert R. Stephenson (als: Bob Stephenson) (Sentry); Adolph Milar (Pigeon Man); Sven-Hugo Borg (First Mate); William Haade (2nd SS Man); Hans Joby (Tracker); Douglas Gerrard (Policeman); Clifford Severn (Cockney Boy); Charles Bennett (Costermonger); Robert Hale (Costermonger); Frank Benson (Cab Driver); Cyril Delevanti (Cab Driver); Carl Ekberg (Adolf Hitler); Kurt Kreuger (German Attache / Ambassador's Secretary); Walter Bonn (Harbor Policeman); Carl Ottmar (Harbor Policeman); William von Brincken (als: William Vaughn) (Chief Harbour Police); Virginia McDowall (Mary, the Postmistress' Daughter); Bruce Lester (Co-Pilot); Olaf Hytten (Piel, Farnsworthy's Secretary); Richard Fraser (Navigator)

Length

2803 m / 102'27''

Format

35mm/sw/1:1,37

Dates

- 12 Mar 1941-12 Apr 1941: Shooting period
- 00 May 1941: Shooting period zusätzl. Drehtage
- 09 Jun 1941: Preview, Los Angeles, CA (Studio)
- 13 Jun 1941: Premiere, New York, NY (Roxy)
- 13 Jun 1941: Release date, New York, NY (Roxy)
- 20 Jun 1941: US release date
- 20 Jun 1941: Copyright LP10573
- 15 Jun 1949: First run, FR, Paris (Caméo)
- 06 Nov 1974: First run, GFR, TV, WDR3
- 02 Jan 1975: Rerun, TV, S3
- 23 Jan 1978: Rerun, TV, WDR3

Remarks

1. Remake: "Rogue Male" (1976 GB / Clive Donner)

Further Remarks

- Tonsystem: Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording
- PCA Cert. No.: 7219
- Studioaufnahmen: Twentieth Century-Fox Film, Los Angeles, CA

Abstract

"Somewhere in Germany shortly before the war." The enthusiastic hunter Alan Thorndike has made his way, unnoticed, to the Berchtesgaden headquarters. He has Hitler in sight but hesitates. In the same moment he is tracked down by a squad on guard but he manages to get away. After a successful escape from Germany he believes that he is safe in London, but continues to be followed. The hunter becomes the hunted. At the end there is a sequence of pictures from the war. Thorndike enters the Royal Airforce and parachutes over Germany. The spokesman comments: An intelligent and trained man, armed with a shotgun, is in Germany with the intention of using it - even if it takes him years to carry out his task.

Subject Terms

Anti-Nazi films (US); Assassination; Berchtesgaden; Fallschirmspringer; Führerhauptquartier; London; Royal Airforce; World War II

Holdings

- Kinemathek Hamburg, Hamburg; 16mm
- National Film and Television Archive (NFTA), London; 35mm
- Cinématheque Française, Paris; 35mm
- MOMA, New York, NY; 16mm
- National Archives, Washington, DC
- Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., Los Angeles, CA: 2895,9 m / 105'68''; 35mm

Distributor

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., Los Angeles, CA / New York, NY (initially)

Materials

- UCLA (University Research Library), Los Angeles, CA: TCF Collection; First Draft Continuity, Dudley Nichols, Man Hunt (07.10.1940, 186 S.
- AMPAS (Margaret Herrick Library), Beverly Hills, CA; Production files
- USC (University of Southern California), Doheny Library, Los Angeles, CA; First Draft Continuity, Dudley Nichols, Man Hunt (07.10.1940, 186 S.
- USC (University of Southern California), Doheny Library, Los Angeles, CA; Treatment, Jules Furthman, Rogue Male (19.06.1940, 42 S.
- USC (University of Southern California), Doheny Library, Los Angeles, CA; Treatment, Jules Furthman, Rogue Male (13.06.1940, 45 S.
- UCLA (University Research Library), Los Angeles, CA - vervielfältigtes Typoscript, 149 S.: TCF Collection; Shooting Final Script, Dudley Nichols, Man Hunt (07.03.1941/26.03.1941)
- UCLA (University Research Library), Los Angeles, CA: TCF Collection; Final Revisted Script, Dudley Nichols, Man Hunt (04.03.1941), vervielfältigtes Typoscript, 149 S.
- UCLA (University Research Library), Los Angeles, CA - mit handschr. Annotationen von Fritz Lang und Len Hammond, 148 S.: TCF Collection; Final Script, Dudley Nichols, Man Hunt (25.02.1941), vervielfältigtes Typoscript
- UCLA (University Research Library), Los Angeles, CA: TCF Collection; Protokoll, Konferenz mit Darryl F. Zanuck, redigiert von Dorothy Hechtlinger (20.02.1941), 11 S.
- USC (University of Southern California), Doheny Library, Los Angeles, CA - mit handschr. Annotationen von Darryl F. Zanuck; Revisted Temporary Script, Dudley Nichols, Man Hunt (04.02.1941), Typoscript
- UCLA (University Research Library), Los Angeles, CA: TCF Collection; Temporary Script, Dudley Nichols, Man Hunt (19.11.1940), vervielfältigtes Typoscript
- USC (University of Southern California), Doheny Library, Los Angeles, CA; Protokoll, Konferenz mit Darryl F. Zanuck, redigiert von Dorothy Hechtlinger (20.02.1941), 11 S.
- UCLA (University Research Library), Los Angeles, CA: TCF Collection; Treatment, Jules Furthman, Rogue Male (19.06.1940, 42 S.
- UCLA (University Research Library), Los Angeles, CA: TCF Collection; Treatment, Jules Furthman, Rogue Male (13.06.1940, 45 S.
- UCLA (University Research Library), Los Angeles, CA: TCF Collection; Memos
- UCLA (University Research Library), Los Angeles, CA: TCF Collection; Clippings
- UCLA (University Research Library), Los Angeles, CA: TCF Collection; Stills
- British Film Institute (BFI), London; Stills
- Det Danske Filmmuseum, Kopenhagen; Clippings
- Det Danske Filmmuseum, Kopenhagen; Stills, 81
- Lincoln Center (Library of the Performing Arts), New York, NY; Script
- UCLA (University Research Library), Los Angeles, CA - mit handschr. Annotationen von Darryl F. Zanuck: TCF Collection; Revisted Temporary Script, Dudley Nichols, Man Hunt (04.02.1941), Typoscript
- Cinématheque Française, Paris - unvolls. Typoscript, unterschrieben von Dudley Nichols, 107 S.; Script with Revisions, Dudley Nichols, Man Hunt (20. [durchgestr.] u. 27.01.1941)
- Cinématheque Française, Paris; Liste betr. Ausstattung, mit handschr. Annotationen von Fritz Lang, 2 S.
- Cinématheque Française, Paris; Kalkulation, 6 S.
- Cinématheque Française, Paris - mit handschr. Annotationen von Fritz Lang, 151 S.; Shooting Final Script, Dudley Nichols, Man Hunt (07.03.1941/26.03.1941), vervielfältigtes Typoscript
- Cinématheque Française, Paris; Revisted Final Script, Dudley Nichols, Man Hunt (04.03.1941), vervielfältigtes Typoscript, 149 S.
- Cinématheque Française, Paris - und vervielfältigtes Typoscript mit handschr. Annotationen von Fritz Lang, 12 S.; Handschr. Notizen und Auszüge aus Script zu einzelnen Szenen, Typoscript
- Cinématheque Française, Paris - mit handschr. Annotationen von Fritz Lang, 148 S.; Final Script, Dudley Nichols, Man Hunt (25.02.1941), vervielfältigtes Typoscript
- Cinématheque Française, Paris; Brief, Bill Heath (?) an Fritz Lang (20.02.1941), Typoscript, 1 S
- Cinématheque Française, Paris; Protokoll, Konferenz mit Darryl F. Zanuck, redigiert von Dorothy Hechtlinger (20.02.1941), 11 S.
- USC (University of Southern California), Doheny Library, Los Angeles, CA; Temporary Script, Dudley Nichols, Man Hunt (19.11.1940), vervielfältigtes Typoscript
- Cinématheque Française, Paris - mit handschr. Annotationen von Dudley Nichols, 62 S.; Script, Dudley Nichols, Man Hunt (27.01.1941), unvollst. Typoscript
- Cinématheque Française, Paris; Gezeichnete Grundrisse zu div. Szenen, einige mit handschr. Annotationen von Fritz Lang, 26. S.
- Cinématheque Française, Paris; Script with Revisions, Auszüge, Dudley Nichols, Man Hunt (o.D.), Typoscript, 18 S.
- Cinématheque Française, Paris - mit handschr. Annotationen (Bleistift u. Tinte) von Dudley Nichols, 192 S.; Temporary Script, Dudley Nichols, Man Hunt (19.11.1940), Typoscript und vervielfältigtes Typoscript
- Cinématheque Française, Paris; Fotos von Storyboard, einige mit handschr. Annotationen von Fritz Lang, 81 S.
- Cinématheque Française, Paris; Storyboard, 140 Entwurfzeichnungen mit handschr. Annotationen von Wiard B. Ihnen, 75 S
- Cinématheque Française, Paris; 2 Fotoalben, 35 Fotos mit Legenden, 25 + 20 S.
- Cinématheque Française, Paris; Standfotos, 65
- Cinématheque Française, Paris; Szenenfotos, 155
- USC (University of Southern California), Doheny Library, Los Angeles, CA - vervielfältigtes Typoscript, 149 S.; Shooting Final Script, Dudley Nichols, Man Hunt (07.03.1941/26.03.1941)
- USC (University of Southern California), Doheny Library, Los Angeles, CA; Final Revisted Script, Dudley Nichols, Man Hunt (04.03.1941), vervielfältigtes Typoscript, 149 S.
- Cinématheque Française, Paris - mit handschr. Annotationen von Fritz Lang, 62 S.; Script, Dudley Nichols, Man Hunt (27.01.1941), unvollst. Typoscript

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