Cinema: The New Pictures Sep. 29, 1930

Der Tiger Von Berlin (UFA). Disstinctly the most competent European talkie presented in the U. S. to date, Der Tiger Von Berlin is a murder mystery with German dialog and a German cast. It concerns the efforts of the Berlin police to get hold of a killer, known as the Tiger, who shoots his victims through the forehead before robbing them. Suspense gathers force by concentration; it is not distributed loosely among many characters, but narrowed quickly to two and still so deftly juggled that the ending is a surprise. There are...

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