Julius Brandt

A moron buys a worthless piece of land, which a swindler passed off as an oil field.

A girl sneaks onto a ship and is discovered midseas.

A film for scatterbrains. Everyone's constantly forgetting something – the daughter the little dog, the father the files, the chauffeur forgetting to close the roof of his taxi when it's pouring rain and his passenger gets soaked. Everyone rushes through life and doesn't even have time for themselves. A whirlwind comedy. Then a "young" student (Hans Söhnker) returns to his hometown. He receives a lavish welcome and, at 34, is probably one of the oldest students in German film history.

The general's widow Henriette of Petrin's not happy about the life of her eldest daughter Leonie. The girl married a young man and is now unhappy with their modest life. To escape their everyday life for a while, Leonie has taken on herself to persuade Count Marenzi to show the "big wide world". Leonie buys a fur coat and send the bill counts. Mother Henriette and Leonie's younger sister, Gerti want for Leonie's projects to fail.

Leopold Pichler (Pallenberg) is a very orderly and trustworthy chief cashier who is asked by his boss to get a large sum of money from the bank which the boss urgently needs on a trip to Vienna. Due to some circumstances, getting the money takes a little longer than expected and the director leaves for Vienna without it. But Pichler sees himself as a reliable man, and so he and his assistant Wittek (Rühmann) follow the director to Vienna with the money kept in a bag.

The two happy fitters Eddy and Tommy are doing overtime to ensure the great travel-exhibition of the department store they work in is ready for display. Outside, they see a poor newspaper seller, who looks longingly at the beautiful things in the display window. So they simply decide to smuggle the unfortunate inside and compete to win her favor by giving her gifts from the shelves of the department store. (worldscinema.org)

Wilhelm Dieterle’s strong and manly art and Marcella Albani’s suave charm intermingle here in a splendid natural setting, to depict a drama where love and duty, compassion and hate, purity and crime merge together in a very interesting story.

Film version of the classic romance by Wilhelmine von Hillern (the basis of Alfredo Catalani's opera "La Wally"). (imdb)