The Hard Life of an Adventurer

Nov 28, 1941

1h 29m

★ 6.3

Overview

A writer of pulp crime novels is drawn into a series of real crimes. This film was one of the first Czech attempts on a genre parody.

Genres

Crime

Comedy

Production Companies

Brom-film

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Cast

Fred Flok alias Konzul Binder alias Komisar Niklas alias Ing. Benda

Otomar Korbelář

Karel Kryspín alias Charles Crispin

Ladislav Pešek

Helena Rohanová

Adina Mandlová

Tichý, policejní inspektor

Jaroslav Marvan

Dr. Seidl

Karel Dostal

Karel Černý

Vladimír Řepa

Karel Hradilák

Rudolf Hrušínský

František Filipovský

R. A. Dvorský

Eman Fiala

Larry Donner, an author with a cruel ex-wife, teaches a writing workshop in which one of his students, Owen, is fed up with his domineering mother. When Owen watches a Hitchcock classic that seems to mirror his own life, he decides to put the movie's plot into action and offers to kill Larry's ex-wife, if Larry promises to murder his mom. Before Larry gets a chance to react to the plan, it seems that Owen has already set things in motion.

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