The Adventurer of Tunis

The Adventurer of Tunis (Die Abenteurerin von Tunis) is a 1931 German adventure film directed by Willi Wolff and starring Philipp Manning, Theo Shall, and Ellen Richter. It was made at the Staaken Studios in Berlin. Location shooting took place in Marseille and Nice in France, Genoa and the Italian Riviera and in Tunis and the Sahara Desert. The film's art direction was by Robert Neppach and Willy Schiller.

Synopsis
During an Arab uprising in North Africa, the European employees of a copper mine are besieged and need urgent help. When his government refuses to provide military assistance, the firm's Parisian owner sends his nephew Henry Bertell with weapons and ammunition. A rival company is behind the uprising, and sends one of its agents a dancer named Collette to seduce Henry and foil his mission. However, as they travel through Southern France together she falls in love with him and changes sides.

Cast

 * Philipp Manning as Henry Bertell
 * Theo Shall as René
 * Ellen Richter as Colette, a dancer
 * Charles Puffy as Emil Dupont
 * Senta Söneland as Agathe - Bertell's wife
 * Ferdinand Hart as Valera
 * Leonard Steckel as Ferrero
 * Rosa Valetti as Madame Rosa
 * Heinrich Marlow as Martini
 * Hans Hermann Schaufuß as First Police Commissioner
 * Julius Falkenstein as Second Police Commissioner
 * Aruth Wartan as Man from the Levante
 * Henry Bender as Portier bei Bertell
 * Emil Rameau as Prokurist bei Bertell