Decoy () is a 1934 German adventure film directed by Hans Steinhoff and starring Jakob Tiedtke, Viktor de Kowa, and Jessie Vihrog. A separate French-language version, The Decoy, was released the following year with a largely different cast.
The film's sets were designed by the art director Artur Günther and Fritz Maurischat. It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios and on location in Hamburg, Turkey and the North Sea.
Synopsis
A young man is commissioned by his jeweler father to take a valuable necklace from Istanbul to Marseille. While on the sea voyage he is targeted by a gang of thieves, using a beautiful woman as a decoy. He is eventually assisted by another woman who is secretly in love with him.
Cast
Jakob Tiedtke as Juwelier Schott
Viktor de Kowa as Schott junior
Jessie Vihrog as Sibyl Termeer
Fritz Rasp as de Groot, ihr Vormund
Hilde Weissner as Delia Donovan
Oskar Sima as Makarian
Paul Westermeier as Robert, Kapitän
Gerhard Bienert as 1. Offizier an Bord der 'Adrian Termeer'
Hugo Fischer-Köppe as 2. Offizier an Bord der 'Adrian Termeer'
Gertrud Wolle as Dame an Bord
Hans Hermann Schaufuß as Herr an Bord
Egon Brosig
Josef Dahmen as Bandit
Alfred Gerasch as Perser
Inge Kadon as Perserin
Sonja Krenzisky as Bumbawa
Hede Mehrmann as Weisse Tänzerin
Gustav Püttjer as Matrose
Louis Ralph as Bandit
Ernst Rotmund as Kriminallkommisar
Werner Stock as Matrose
Criticism
Karlheinz Wendtland confirmed that the film was "designed with speed and all the refinements". Furthermore, he was of the opinion that the film adaptation was not lacking in humor and that it was "completely apolitical despite the director Steinhoff".