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Show Life
Also known as Show Life: Die Liebe eines armen Menschenkindes in Germany; Song in the United Kingdom : [Wasted Love]
(1928) German-British
B&W : Feature film
Directed by Richard Eichberg

Cast: Anna May Wong [Song], Heinrich George [Jack Houben], Mary Kid [Gloria Lee], Hans Adalbert von Schlettow (Hans Adalbert Schlettow) [Dimitri Alexi], Paul Hörliger [Sam], Julius E. Herrmann

Richard Eichberg-Film GmbH and British International Pictures, Limited, coproduction; distributed by Südfilm Aktiengesellschaft. / Scenario by Adolf Lantz and Helen Gosewisch, from the novel Schmutziges Geld by Karl Vollmöller. Set design by W.A. Herrmann (Willi Herrmann). Cinematography by Heinrich Gärtner and Bruno Mondi. / Premiered 21 August 1928 in Kurfürstendamm, Germany. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / Working title: Schmutziges Geld.

Drama.

Survival Status: Print exists in the National Film and Television Archive of the British Film Institute film archive [35mm positive].

Listing updated: 2 August 2009.

References: Bardèche-History p. 260 : Website-Filmportal; Website-IMDb.