Produced by the legendary Viennese production company Sascha-Film, a pioneer of silent films and the first sound films made in Austria, the amusing musical comedy Die Abenteuer des Grafen Bobby also confirms the successful harmony between a series of actors with theatrical and musical backgrounds.
The Vienna of Mann im Schatten is a dark, shadowy Vienna, witness to the most horrific crimes, which, in its time, Carol Reed had so well depicted in The Third Man. And director Arthur Maria Rabenalt was equally able to stage a brutal crime, drawing heavily now from Reed’s own cinema, now from German Expressionism, now even from the legendary figures of detectives like Hercules Poirot or Lieutenant Columbo.