Kit & Co

Short Summary (English)

At the end of the 19th century, the journalist Kit Bellow starts on a trip to Alaska to make his luck in the gold rush. Having just arrived, he meets the attractive and self-confident gold digger Joy who ridicules the wannabe adventurer as a greenhorn. But Kit finds a friend and companion in the odd Shorty, and together they travel to Dawson City. The gold digger city is a tough place to stay and soon Kit has to get in a fight to rescue Joy. But that is by far not the only adventure Kit has to endure. In the course of events, he is only saved from the gallows by the courageous Wild Water Bill, gets cheated by Joy and her father while digging for gold - but eventually finds the legendary "gold lake" together with Shorty. As they cannot hoist the precious metal on their own, but don’t want to cooperate with the large company of "Guggenheim and Sons", they have to change their plans. Thus, Kit takes part in a dogsled racing event whose winner gets the profit-yielding gold claim. With the strong help of Shorty, Joy, and Wild Water Bill he actually manages to win the coveted race.

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Film Crew

Director

• Konrad Petzold

Script

• Konrad Petzold

Scenario

• Günter Karl

Camera

• Hans Heinrich

Film Editing

• Barbara Leuschner

Cast

• Dean Reed (Kit Bellow)
• Rolf Hoppe (Shorty)
• Renate Blume (Joy Gastell)
• Siegfried Kilian (Louis Gastell)
• Manfred Krug (Wild Water Bill)
• Monika Woytowicz (Lucille Arral)
• Armin Mueller-Stahl (Slavovitz)
• Hans Lucke (Colonel Bowie)
• Christoph Beyertt (Bürgermeister)
• Ralph J. Boettner (Big Burke)
• Hannjo Hasse (Captain Consadine)
• Gerry Wolff (Shunk Wilson)
• Willi Schrade (Großgewachsener)
• Bodo Schmidt (Croupier)
• Edgar Külow (O'Hara)
• Klaus Tilsner (Harvey Moran)
• Fred Ludwig (Goldwäscher)
• Fritz Mohr (Gehilfe von Gautereaux)
• Karl-Heinz Scherf (Barkeeper)
• Horst Papke (Kellner)
• Jörg Knochée (auch: Knoche) (Mann an der Goldwaage)
• Joseph Schorn (Gautereaux)
• Alfred Lux (Wirrkopf)
• Nico Turoff (Alter Trapper)
• Peter Heiland (Saloongast)
• Pedro Hebenstreit (Saloongast)
• Matthias Molter (Saloongast)
• Volker Steinkopff (Saloongast)
• Hasso Wardeck (Saloongast)
• Willi Neuenhahn (Arbeiter)
• Uwe Schmidt (Betrunkener)
• Mirko Musil (Bootsbesitzer)
• Dirk Jungnickel (Registrierbeamter)
• Hans-Uwe Wardeck (Junger Mann)
• Sina Fiedler (Eine Frau)
• G. K. Laine (Charley)
• Igor Rumjanzew (Hanson)

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Assistant Director

• Dirk Jungnickel

Assistant Camera

• Manfred Damm
• Eckhart (auch: Eckhardt) Hartkopf

Production Design

• Heinz Röske

Script Editing

• Thea Richter

Music

• Karl-Ernst Sasse

Sound

• Günter Witt
• Christian Müller
• Georg Gutschmidt

Costume Design

• Günther (auch Günter) Heidemann (geb. Schmidt, auch Schmidt-Heidemann)

Make-Up

• Frank May (geb. Zucholowsky)
• Brigitte Welzel

Production Management

• Dorothea Hildebrandt

Unit Production Management

• Horst Schmidt
• Hans-Uwe Wardeck
• Ursula Dombrowski

Design

• Inka Unverzagt (Choreografie)

DEFA Photography

• Manfred Damm

Narrator

• Lothar Schellhorn

Dubbing (Dubbing Actor)

• Peter Reusse (Kit Bellow)

Short Summary (German)

Christopher „Kit“ Bellow ist Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts mit seinem eintönigen Leben als Lokaljournalist mit schlechter Bezahlung in San Francisco unzufrieden. Als er von den Goldfunden in Alaska hört, bricht auch bei ihm der Goldrausch aus. Ohne echte Kenntnisse über das Leben in der Wildnis reist er Hals über Kopf in den Norden und wird, dort angekommen, von der Goldgräberin Joy sofort als „Greenhorn“ belächelt. Ein treuer Freund wird Bellow der wenig erfolgreiche Goldsucher Shorty. Zusammen sind sie Kit & Co. Das mal clever, mal unbeholfen agierende Duo gerät von einem Abenteuer in das Nächste. Werden sie in Alaska ihr Glück finden?

Short Summary (Other Languages)

Alla fine del XIX secolo, attirato dalla febbre dell'oro, il giornalista Kit Bellow si reca in Alaska. Con l'amico Shorty raggiunge Dawson City dove conquista Joy, bella cercatrice d'oro, vince alla roulette ed evita di essere impiccato grazie all'intervento di Wild Water Bill. Un giorno scova il leggendario lago d'oro, ma raccogliere il metallo prezioso richiede un enorme investimento. Pur di non diventare partner della ditta "Guggenheim & figli", Kit partecipa a una corsa di slitte trainate dai cani. Shorty lo aiuta a trovare i migliori animali, Joy mette a disposizione i suoi e con l'aiuto di Wild Water Bill, Kit taglia per primo il traguardo. (Italienisch)