To Hell with the Kaiser! Sin" to name a few. Lawrence Grant, who spent his lengthy career playing odious villains, appeared in the dual role of Kaiser Wilhelm II and his look-alike, German actor Robert Graubel. Terrified of being assassinated, the Kaiser hires Graubel to impersonate him at various political functions. In the film, the Kaiser achieves military success through an infernal pact with Satan. Once this is established, the film concentrates on the seemingly endless tally of misdeeds perpetrated by the Kaiser during his quarter-century reign over Germany. His "partner in crime" is the Crown Prince (Earl Schenck), who thinks nothing of casually raping
Der Kaiser von Kalifornien was written and directed by the Tyrolean Luis Trenker, who also starred as Johann Sutter. Trenker had previously directed "Der verlorene Sohn" (The Prodigal Son, 1934), the story of an Alpine immigrant in New York City, which is the only other film produced in Nazi Germany with scenes photographed on location in the United States. Der Kaiser von Kalifornien The Kaiser of California, better known as "The Emperor of California" (German "Der Kaiser von Kalifornien"), is a 1936 film that has the distinction of being the first western film made in Nazi Germany. Some exterior scenes were even shot on