Bomben auf Monte Carlo | |
Author: | Fritz Reck-Malleczewen |
Country: | Germany |
Language: | German |
Genre: | Comedy |
Release Date: | 1930 |
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Bomben auf Monte Carlo is a 1930 German comedy novel by Fritz Reck-Malleczewen.
In the novel, the penniless captain of a vessel puts into Monte Carlo, hoping to raise money at the gaming tables to pay his crew. While there he becomes entangled with a monarch in disguise.
The story has been made into four films at the time of writing. In 1931, the German film Bombs on Monte Carlo was made, with a French-language version Captain Craddock and an English-language version Monte Carlo Madness made at the same time.
In 1960 a fourth film version was made entitled Bombs on Monte Carlo and directed by Georg Jacoby.