I Was Jack Mortimer (novel)

1933 novel by Alexander Lernet-Holenia

I Was Jack Mortimer
1952 edition (publ. Fischer Bücherei)
Author	Alexander Lernet-Holenia
Language	German
Genre	Thriller
Publication date	1933
Publication place	Austria
Media type	Print

I Was Jack Mortimer (German: Ich war Jack Mortimer) is a 1933 thriller novel by the Austrian writer Alexander Lernet-Holenia.

In 1935 it was adapted into a German film of the same title directed by Carl Froelich and starring Anton Walbrook and Sybille Schmitz. In 1952 it was adapted into the Austrian film Adventure in Vienna directed by Emil E. Reinert and starring Gustav Fröhlich and Cornell Borchers. A separate English-language version Stolen Identity (1953) was also produced. The West German television film Jack Mortimer [de] (1961) was directed by Michael Kehlmann.

References

Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.

v t e Alexander Lernet-Holenia
Prose fiction	I Was Jack Mortimer (1933) The Standard (1934) Baron Bagge (1936) Mars in Aries (1941) Twentieth of July (1947) The Count of Saint Germain (1948) Count Luna (1955)
Screenplays	The Dismissal (1942) The Great Love (1942) On Resonant Shores (1948) Espionage (1955)

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