The Sausage King

The Sausage King Produced Directed Dana Plays (26:49min) 2026

his Artlist AI Generated film by Dana Plays – ‘The Sausage King’ is based on the life of Adolf Gobel (the filmmaker’s gerat-grandfather, and father of Ottilie Moore), a German Immigrant and freemason, who arrived to New York City penniless, and became a self-made millionaire. He started off making and selling sausages from a wicker basket, popularizing the ‘hot dog’ and built and ran the largest deli factory and business in the late 1800-early 1900’s in Bushwick, Brooklyn NY at the current home of Boars Head. He also owned one of the largest dairy producing farms, Gobel Farms in Annandale New Jersey. He was a freemason, and father of 4 children, including Ottilie Gobel Moore, who sheltered refugees on her property in Villefranche-sur-mer during WWII, know for bringing 10 children out of the war, during Vichy Regime and brink of German occupation in the Cote d’Azur, France, and raising them in NYC to adulthood. Adolf Gobel died suddenly of a heart attack in May 1924, More than 600 people attended the dedication of the mausoleum on the Gobel Farms.