Punks Arrives from America (German: Punks kommt aus Amerika) is a 1935 German comedy film directed by Karl Heinz Martin and starring Attila Hörbiger, Lien Deyers, Ralph Arthur Roberts and Sybille Schmitz. Produced and distributed by UFA, it was made at the company's Babelsberg Studios in Potsdam. The film's sets were designed by the art director Otto Guelstorff. Location shooting took place around Hamburg. Along with Fresh Wind from Canada it was one of several seemingly innocuous comedies released that supported the Nazi Party's Heim ins Reich policy.
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Synopsis
A German citizen who has been away in the United States, and has become americanised and acquired the nickname "Punks" returns home after some bad fortune. He manages to eventually overcome his family and former friends' bad opinion of him by rescuing his uncle's business from a robbery.
Cast
Attila Hörbiger as Werner 'Punks' Holzhausen
Lien Deyers as Marlis
Ralph Arthur Roberts as Holenius, Antique dealer
Sybille Schmitz as Britta Geistenberg
Henry Lorenzen as von Schlieff
Oskar Sima as Sigorski
Erika Glässner as Yvonne de Carmagnac
Georges Boulanger as a violinist
Maria Meissner as Miss Oppmann
Josef Sieber as Chauffeur
Ekkehard Arendt as waiter at the golf club
Ernst Behmer as lifeguard
Hermann Braun as caddy at the golf club
Louis Brody as barkeeper
Adolf Fischer as truck driver
Illo Gutschwager as boy at the gas station
Bruno Hübner as bridge-player
Karl Jüstel as Hotel guest
Alfred Karen as Hotel guest
Paquita Lorenz as saleswoman
Edith Oß as maid
Bert Schmidt-Moris as bell boy
Aida St. Paul as bridge-player
Egon Stief as truck driver
Elisabeth von Ruets as bridge-player
Erich Walter as Markoff
Hugo Werner-Kahle as Van der Meuleen