Language: English

HIS014000  –  History / Europe / Germany

FIC016000  –  Fiction / Humorous

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Berlin 1929. Charleston and Savannah are beautiful and sexy and exceptionally talented German women who sing and dance in a Berlin cabaret which is owned by Moll, a vain and dangerous gangster who is also head of the local Ring Vereine (a union of professional criminals officially recognized by the Prussian Government). When Moll attempts to force Charleston and Savannah into having sex with two wealthy industrialists, the two women bash him over the head and flee Berlin on a motorcycle with a sidecar. Moll dispatches Duca and Fogg to bring them back. Duca and Fogg are boatmen, a rare combination of international con man, jewel thief and gigolo who are famed for swindling rich people aboard luxurious trans-Atlantic ocean liners and at Europe's finest grand hotels). Moll mistakenly convinces himself that both Duca and Fogg are gay because they shared the same cell in Moabit Prison for five years and figures which makes them ideally suited to go after Charleston and Savannah. Duca and Fogg agree to do it because they need the money to return to their old life aboard ocean liners and at grand hotels. But as it turns out Duca and Fogg are anything but gay and by the time they finally overtake Charleston and Savannah, not only is Duca in love with Charleston and Fogg in love with Savannah, but it is also vice versa. So they all return to Berlin where they devise an elaborate and daring hoax finally settling the score with Moll forever.

Barth Jules Sussman

Over the past several decades Barth Jules Sussman has lived and worked as an author and screenwriter in London, Paris, Rome, Cannes, Hollywood, Ibiza and Florida. He is the author of such historical novels as Shanghai and The Crooked Cross (New American Library/Signet Books); the western thriller L'Homme au Boulet Rouge (editions Gallimard-Paris) - (title in Germany- Der Mann mit der roten Kugel); the screwball black comedy novel Save Me Cosmos Black; Muggy The Happy Pug children's picture book series (Hachette Jeunesse-Paris) as well as the Muggy CD-ROM coloring book (Muggy Press) which were created along with his late wife Jen Sussman. Barth Jules Sussman has written over a twenty original screenplays, including The Stranger & The Gunfighter (AKA Blood Money) starring Lee Van Cleef and Night Games directed by Roger Vadim; The Zaharoff Dossier; Charleston & Savannah. A number of Barth Jules Sussman's scripts have been either purchased or produced by Columbia Pictures;Avco-Embassy; Dino DeLaurentiis; Carlo Ponti; Sir Run Run Shaw and Raymond Chow amongst others.