Writing

Hans Jacoby

Known for

Writing

Credits

36 titles

Known for

Behind the camera

Sirocco poster
6.0

A mysterious American gets mixed up with gunrunners in Syria.

Sirocco

1951

Tarzan's Savage Fury poster
5.3

The jungle king's cousin tries to get him to help find a diamond treasure.

Tarzan's Savage Fury

1952

Tarzan and the Slave Girl poster
5.6

The Lionians, a tribe of lion worshippers, make a desperate attempt to find a cure for the mysterious disease plaguing their village. Their Chief decides to kidnap Jane and Lola, a half-breed nurse, in order to help repopulate his civilization. Tarzan must rescue them while fending off blowgun attacks from people called the Waddies who are disguised as bushes.

Tarzan and the Slave Girl

1950

Tarzan and the Amazons poster
6.4

A group of archaeologists asks Tarzan to help them find an ancient city in a hidden valley of women. He refuses, but Boy is tricked into doing the job. The queen of the women asks Tarzan to help them.

Tarzan and the Amazons

1945

Der brave Soldat Schwejk poster
6.6

When the First World War breaks out in 1914, Josef Schwejk, a naive dog dealer in Prague, joins the Imperial Army.

Der brave Soldat Schwejk

1960

It Happened in Broad Daylight poster
7.4

The search for a child murderer drags a once-respected detective into an all-consuming obsession.

It Happened in Broad Daylight

1958

Champagne for Caesar poster
7.1

When jobless genius Beauregard Bottomley interviews with Burnbridge Waters for a position at Waters' soap company, the owner rudely turns Bottomley down. As revenge, Bottomley enters a TV quiz show that Waters' company sponsors, with the goal of winning until he bankrupts the businessman. When Bottomley keeps acing the questions, becoming a media sensation, Waters desperately calls on vixen Flame O'Neal to uncover Bottomley's area of weakness.

Champagne for Caesar

1950

The Man Who Walked Through the Wall poster
7.2

Mr. Buchsbaum, third class taxes employee, lives a peaceful life until the new chief immediately criticizes his work. His only confort is his stamps collection. Sadly, even this consolation and his peace are threatened by a new, charming, neighbour who teaches piano. Increasingly infuriated, he discovers accidentally one evening that he has the ability to go through walls. With this power, he decides to settle the scores, firstly with his boss who downgraded him.

The Man Who Walked Through the Wall

1959

The Man Who Walked Through the Wall poster
7.2

Mr. Buchsbaum, third class taxes employee, lives a peaceful life until the new chief immediately criticizes his work. His only confort is his stamps collection. Sadly, even this consolation and his peace are threatened by a new, charming, neighbour who teaches piano. Increasingly infuriated, he discovers accidentally one evening that he has the ability to go through walls. With this power, he decides to settle the scores, firstly with his boss who downgraded him.

The Man Who Walked Through the Wall

1959

The Amazing Mrs. Holliday poster
6.7

A missionary tries to outwit the U.S. government and smuggle Chinese orphans into the country.

The Amazing Mrs. Holliday

1943

She Wouldn't Say Yes poster
6.4

Susan Lane is a gifted psychiatrist, grounded in self-control. Before returning by train to her practice in Chicago, she spends time back East with war veterans, building their self-esteem, but frowning on the impulsive, as represented by a favorite comic strip called "The Nixie." She bumps into Michael Kent, an officer and the comic strip's author. He likes her instantly and she dislikes him. He's headed to the Pacific, sees her on the train, gets off in Chicago, and with her father's help, pursues her and hatches a plan to marry her. Meanwhile, she has her own plan to get rid of him with the help of a blond patient. Will the Nixie get into her psyche?

She Wouldn't Say Yes

1945

I Was an Adventuress poster
5.3

Old friends of Vera Vronsky remind her of her past and try to blackmail her.

I Was an Adventuress

1938

The Magnificent Rogue poster
8.0

A slightly ironic comedy about the rise of a celebrated factory owner who began his swindles while a prisoner of war and ends up as a cheated fraudster.

The Magnificent Rogue

1960

Princess Tarakanova poster
10.0

Italian version of 'Princess Tarakanova'. A film about the story of princess Élisabeth Tarakanova.

Princess Tarakanova

1938

Stranger from Venus poster
5.2

Stranger from Venus (a.k.a. Immediate Disaster and The Venusian) is the story of a woman who meets a stranger with no pulse who has the power of life and death at his touch. He is here from Venus to warn Earth about the atom.

Stranger from Venus

1954

Tarakanova poster
NR

French version of 'Princess Tarakanova'. Tasked with deceiving a young princess claiming the throne, Count Orloff, a favorite of Catherine the Great, is chosen to seduce the Tsarina…

Tarakanova

1938

Ship of the Dead poster
6.6

After a line of mischief Philip Gale, an American sailor, is lured into hiring on the "Yorikke", a tramp cargo, by Lawski, a stoker from Poland. Still, the two become friends within the motley crew of losers from all nations. Gale and his new companion soon are more than disillusioned: the "Yorikke" is far from seaworthy and more of a coffin than a ship, work is close to slavery, and treatment by the officers and their subalterns is harsh and cynical. One day they make an alarming discovery in a tin of plum butter they have procured from the ship's cargo... Written by Anonymous

Ship of the Dead

1959

Tars and Spars poster
5.8

Howard Young is a coast guardsman who has been on shore duty for three years despite his efforts to be sent into action. His nearest approach to sea duty was on a harbor-moored life raft for 21 days as part of an experiment with a new type of vitamin gum for the government. He meets Christine Bradley, a SPAR, sent to take over his communications job and, by things he leaves unsaid, she thinks his life-raft experience was the result of a ship-wreck at sea.

Tars and Spars

1946

Their Son poster
9.0

The son of a Countess runs away to join the circus and becomes a great trapeze artist. He returns years later and falls in love with a young woman.

Their Son

1929

No artwork available
10.0

Prosecutor Leander is known for his heavy-handed and unyielding pleadings, demanding draconian punishments, often even the death penalty, for every accused offender. One day, he will experience first-hand how complex some legal assessments can be. Love and passion, hatred and jealousy can drive even the most righteous people to actions they would never normally commit. Therefore, not everyone who commits a crime is necessarily a criminal.

The Hangman

1928

There's No Tomorrow poster
7.1

Evelyne, a woman of bourgeois origin, now reduced to dancing in a sleazy nightclub, is reunited with her first love, who has become a successful doctor.

There's No Tomorrow

1940

Vater sein dagegen sehr poster
7.5

Margot is looking forward to moving into the old defense tower with her fiancé Lutz, a writer. Then the writer receives the news of his sister's death. Lutz is supposed to take in their children Traudl and Rudi and the dog Leo. Margot did not expect so much attachment...

Vater sein dagegen sehr

1957

Carnival Story poster
4.6

In search of a better life, a German girl named Willi joins an American carnival passing through Munich. While traveling from town to town, she is torn between two suitors: cruel carnival barker Joe and kindhearted high-dive artist Frank. Frank gets the upper hand when he asks Willi to join his act. The partners soon become the most popular attraction at the carnival. But tragedy is only a slip away.

Carnival Story

1954

Der tolle Bomberg poster
8.5

No synopsis available yet.

Der tolle Bomberg

1957

Die Halbzarte poster
5.9

Nicole is a young librarian who writes romantic poetry. A successful new erotic novel, gives her the idea to secretly write a daring play, only about sex.

Die Halbzarte

1959

The Judge and the Sinner poster
5.9

A drama directed by Paul Verhoeven.

The Judge and the Sinner

1960

Story of San Michele poster
6.5

A biographical drama is based on the 1929 autobiography of Swedish doctor Axel Martin Fredrik, The Story of San Michele. It follows the physician, psychiatrist, and adventurer as he travels the distances from Lapland to his Villa San Michele on Capri, with special stops in Paris and Rome. Personal physician to Queen Victoria, also physician to the Swedish royal family (he spent his last years living in the Royal Palace in Sweden), "Axel Munthe" knew everyone from the poorest clients to the most well-endowed. His love of animals, his support of bird sanctuaries, his involvement with architecture as he constructs his impressive villa throughout five summers, and his interests in archaeology and hypnotism are all explored.

Story of San Michele

1962

An Almost Decent Girl poster
8.0

An almost decent girl is a German-Spanish Romance of Ladislao Vajda from 1963. In Spain he was entitled Una chica casi formal on.

An Almost Decent Girl

1963

Doña Francisquita poster
8.0

The beautiful Francisquita is in love with Fernando, a student who aspires to become a poet; but he is infatuated with the very fiery actress Aurora la Beltrana, who is Lorenzo's lover.

Doña Francisquita

1934

The Land of Smiles poster
6.7

A western woman falls in love with a chinese prince. When she accompanies him to his homeland, strange things await her. Based on the operetta of the same name with music by Franz Lehár and libretto by Ludwig Herzer and Fritz Löhner-Beda.

The Land of Smiles

1930

Max der Taschendieb poster
7.7

Max, a small time pick-pocket, has nothing to do with the ‘big’ crimes. But then he must find the murderer of Fred, his wife's brother.

Max der Taschendieb

1962

Reunion in Reno poster
6.3

A little girl enlists the aid of an attorney to obtain a divorce from her parents. Breezy B comedy was loosely remade as Irreconcilable Differences.

Reunion in Reno

1951

Circus of Love poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Circus of Love

1954

The Black Sheep poster
6.7

Father Brown starts solving crimes, much to the annoyance of his housekeeper, the police and especially his bishop, who is not amused by a priest playing detective.

The Black Sheep

1960

Portrait of an Unknown Woman poster
6.9

Keller, a painter, while at the ballet is impressed with the beauty of Nicole and sketches her head on the body of a nude model. When it is shown, it causes embarrassment to Nicole's husband, Walter, a diplomat whose career is threatened.

Portrait of an Unknown Woman

1954

Der Mann, der nicht nein sagen konnte poster
9.0

A man takes in three a dog and three runaway girls.

Der Mann, der nicht nein sagen konnte

1958