Judgement Day (1940)

Plot Summary

The greengrocer Ferdinand Strubel wants his daughter Marianne to marry the son of the brewery owner Baron von Schnackenberg. Since Strubel is an impossibly cheap bastard, the marriage is to take place on 20 May, which, coincidentally, is the same day the city is having a grand festival for him to celebrate his company's being in business for 100 years. Marianne, however, has fallen in love with Leopold, a gym teacher; and when he reads an article in the newspaper about the upcoming arrival of Haley's Comet on 19 May, he comes up with an idea how he can prevent the wedding from taking place: He tells Strubel that the world is going to come to an end when the comet shows up, so that Strubel will see the errors of his way, cancel the arranged wedding and will become a better person for it. (Sucker!).

Full Cast & Characters

Hans Holt

Leopold Forster, Turnlehrer

Olly Holzmann

Josefine Pawelek

Susi Nicoletti

Marianne Strubel

Karl Skraup

Ferdinand Strubel

Bruno Hübner

Auzinger, Phsyik-Professor

Herta Mayen

Junge Ehefrau

Anton Pointner

Maximilian von Schnackenberg

Ferdinand Mayerhofer

Schönthaler, Bürgermeister

Erik Frey

Rudolf von Schnackenberg

Gertrud Wolle

Ottilie Sedlmeyer

Mimi Shorp

Fritzi Strohmeyer

Gisa Wurm

Elisabeth Strubel

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