The Last Chance
Escaping a Nazi prison train in war-torn Italy, an American and a British soldier set out for the Swiss border and find themselves leading a multi-national party of refugees for the Italian underground.
Elizabeth Montagu
Writer
Richard Schweizer
Writer
Leopold Lindtberg
Director
Leopold Lindtberg
Writer
David Wechsler
Writer
Casts & Crew
Ewart G. Morrison
Major Telford
John Hoy
British Lieutenant John Halliday
Ray Reagan
US Sergeant James 'Jim' Braddock
Luisa Rossi
Tonina
Giuseppe Galeati
Wagon Driver
Romano Calò
The Priest
Leopold Biberti
Swiss Lieutenant Brunner
Sigfrit Steiner
Swiss Military Doctor
Also Directed by Leopold Lindtberg
If any one man is responsible for the rejuvenation of the postwar Swiss film industry, that man was director Leopold Lindtberg. Matto Regiert (Madness Rules) was co-adapted for the screen by Lindtberg from a novel by Friedrich Glauser. Heinrich Gretler stars as Police Constable Studer, the hero of several of Glauser's most popular works. This time, Studer must solve the murder of the director of an insane asylum -- and it's not (surprise, surprise) the most likely suspect, manic-depressive patient Herbert Caplaun. For box-office purposes, Matto Regiert stresses a romantic subplot involving Caplaun and nurse Irma Wasem.
A policeman is not convinced that the prime suspect in a murder case is realty guilty and so decides to reinvestigate the case, despite the lack of co-operation from locals.
