The Blue Mouse

Oct 3, 1913

1h 33m

★ 10.0

Overview

Teddie Barker, an employee of the Searchlight Insurance Company, falls in love with Clara Brummer. Her father does not, at first, acquiesce to the engagement, but after persuasion agrees and attends the marriage of his daughter, and promises a dowry of £5,000 when the young man attains the position of branch manager in his company.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

Greenbaum-Film

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Cast

Fritzi Lustig

Madge Lessing

Cäsar Meier

Otto Treptow

Heinrich Peer

Else Wannovius

Herbert Paulmüller

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9.0

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7.0

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8.0

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0.0

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0.0

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8.0

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7.0

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9.0

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No overview available.

9.0

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3.3

What's Your Husband Doing?

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9.0

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9.0

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The first Soviet anti-religious film.

7.0

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9.0

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The Blue Mouse

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