Messerschmitt 'Cabineroller' in A Prize or Gold
For the film 'A Prize of Gold' you will have to step back in time a little more than a few days. But do we not do otherwise Auto Motor Klassiek? This is a film from 1955 after a book by Max Catto from 1953. In short, an American sergeant of the USAF Police - played by a certain Richard Widmark - was housed in West Berlin shortly after the war. One day he decides to put his life at the service of his new love, a refugee who wants to "export" German orphans to South America. That of course costs a lot of money. That much money can only be collected in the short term through criminal activities. He manages to poke two of his 'buddies' for that. Rumor has it that gold transport worth several million dollars is coming from Great Britain to Germany. Indeed, to West Berlin. The robbery runs smoothly, but then the men still think differently. Does the money go to that new love or do they keep it themselves? Leading actor Richard Widmark moved into a Messerschmitt 'Kabineroller'. And what did you do as a cinema operator then? Exactly yes, you ensure that some of those tricycles roar through the city, with an advertising text that should attract the public ...
Photo: These Messerschmitts had to go to the cinema in 1955 ...