The Count of Old Town
This is a story about a gang of crooks and booze smugglers and their girl friends in the Old City of Stockholm.
It is a kind of thriller. Ingrid Bergman plays the daughter of a woman who owns a small bachelor hotel where the crooks hide out. A lot of money changes hands and is hidden in such unlikely places as under herring in the local fish market. One of the crooks is a gigolo who manages to trick a local lady out of 28 000 kronor, but in the end the crooks are made honest by a fortuitous win on the football pool, so that they are able to return all stolen money to its rightful owners. The film ends with a double wedding of two of the crooks, Gurkan and the Count, with their girl friends Amalia and Klara.
Production Facts
- Original Title: Munkbogreven
- Country of Origin: Sweden
- Production Year: 1935
- First Release: 1935
- Language: Swedish
- Genre: Classics
- Format: 1:1.37
- Duration: 82 minutes
- Director: Sigurd Wallén
- Production: AB Svensk Filmindustri
- Cast: Waldemar Dahlquist, Sigurd Wallén, Eric Abrahamsson, Weyler Hildebrand, Artur Cederborgh, Edwin Adolphson, Ingrid Bergman
- Script: Arthur Natorp, Siegfried Fischer
- Sound design: Jules Sylvain, Eric Bengtsson