The Hill Park Mystery
About The Hill Park Mystery
Police reporter Erik Brandt is sent on holiday after he solves a murder the police missed. At the resort, a run of killings starts. A young woman he falls for may be in it.
Cast & crew
More about The Hill Park Mystery
A. W. Sandberg directed Nedbrudte nerver for Nordisk. Laurids Skands wrote it. Einar Olsen and Louis Larsen photographed it. The Danish opening was 25 February 1923. It runs 75 minutes. Olga Belajeff leads the cast with Aage Bendixen and Peter Nielsen.
Themes
Making
Sandberg made it as a Nordisk crime picture with two cameramen, Olsen and Larsen, after his earlier melodramas at the same company.
Look
Einar Olsen and Louis Larsen shared the photography on the resort murder story.
Preservation
A 75-minute print survives. A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- The Danish title is Nedbrudte nerver. A French title is Le Mystère de Hill Park.
- Egill Rostrup, Gorm Schmidt, Frantz Stybe, Charles Wilken, and Frederik Jacobsen are billed. Sandberg himself is on the cast list.
- Carlo Jacobsen is credited with the production design.
Scenes
- Brandt is packed off on holiday for having solved a murder ahead of the police.
- The killings start at the resort where he was sent to rest.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Nedbrudte nerven (1923).webm)
