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Die Herrin der Welt
Also known as The City of Gold in the USA : [Mistress of the World], [The Dragon’s Claw], [The Race for Life]
(1921) [?] Germany or Denmark?
B&W : Serial / Eight chapters / 48 reels
Directed by Joe May

Cast: Mia May [Maud Gregaards], Michael Bohnen [Consul Madsen], Henry Sze [Doctor Kien-Lung], Hans Mierendorff [Murphy], Lewis Brody (Louis Brody) [Simba, the Chinese servant], Nien Song-Ling (Nien Soen Ling), W. Arnoldi, Hedwig Bleibtreu, Bruno Decarli, Eva May, Hans Pagay, Eduard Rothauser, Hedy Searle, [?] Forrest Holger-Madsen?

May-Film production; distributed by Universum-Film Aktiengesellschaft [UFA]. / Scenario by Wilhelm Roellinghoff, Ruth Goetz, Richard Hutter and Joe May, from a novel by Karl Figdor. Production design by Otto Hunte, Martin Jacoby-Boy, Erich Kettelhut and Karl Vollbrecht. Set design by Otto Hunte, Erich Kettelhut and Karl Vollbrecht. Costume design by Leopold Verch. Assistant directors, Uwe Jens Krafft and Fritz Lang. Cinematography by Werner Brandes. / Eight chapters [each at feature length]. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Bleibtreu’s film debut. Edited by assistant editor Peter Milne (and others) to four chapters and released in the USA as Mistress of the World on 5 March 1922 by Hamilton Theatrical Corporation through Paramount Pictures Corporation. The original American edit of the serial was: chapter one The Dragon’s Claw (six reels); chapter two The Race for Life (six reels); chapter three The City of Gold (six reels); chapter four Saved by Wireless (five reels). Bad reviews forced the combination of chapters three and four into a single feature of seven reels entitled The City of Gold.

Drama.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung.

Keywords: Serials

Listing updated: 14 August 2023.

References: Jensen-Lang pp. 12, 16, 17-18, 19, 21, 199; Lahue-Continued p. 77; Pohle-Holmes p. 32; Weinberg-Lubitsch p. ? : Website-IMDb.

 
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