The House of Secrets (1945)
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German title | The House of Secrets | ||
Original title | The House of Fear | ||
Country of production | United States | ||
original language | English | ||
Publishing year | 1945 | ||
length | 73 minutes | ||
Age rating | FSK 12 | ||
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Director | Roy William Neill | ||
script | Roy Chanslor | ||
production | Roy William Neill | ||
music | Paul Sawtell | ||
camera | Virgil Miller | ||
cut | Saul A. Goodkind | ||
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Das Haus des Schreckens (Original title: The House of Fear , better known alternative title: Das Haus des Horens ) is an American crime film from 1945 . It is loosely based on The Five Orange Pips by Arthur Conan Doyle , starring Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson as the main characters. It is the tenth film in this series .
action
The Good Comrades Club meets in a remote country estate in Scotland and originally consisted of seven members. However, two members - Ralph King, a retired attorney and Stanley Raeburn, a former actor - died after receiving orange pits. Since the club members are highly life insured and have chosen each other as beneficiaries, insurance agent Chambers asks master detective Sherlock Holmes and his friend Dr. Watson is about shedding light on the darkness.
So Holmes and Watson travel to Scotland to the House of Secrets, as it is called by the residents of the nearby village, where the club members are currently guests of one of their clubmates. Every day during dinner, the housekeeper distributes a letter to one of the club members with as many orange pits as the remaining number of club members. Shortly after Holmes' arrival, Guy Davis falls victim, then later the nervous Alan Cosgrave and finally the impulsive Captain Simpson. Inspector Lestrade is now also on site.
Meanwhile, the tobacco seller MacGregor is murdered - Holmes suspects that he knew too much about something going on in the comrade's house because he had sent Lestrade a message to meet him urgently. When Holmes returns, after the death of the seedy Dr. Merrivale only left the club's chairman, Bruce Alastair, alive. It turns out that after their "death" the club members hid themselves in a secret vaulted cellar of the house in order to wait there for an emigration and to collect the insurance premiums. Bruce Alastair, who is as pious as it is naive, should be used as a scapegoat. When Watson gets on the track, he is kidnapped by his good comrades and is supposed to be murdered. However, by measuring the house, Holmes learns of the vault and is able to save Watson.
The good comrades are convicted not only of fraud, but also of murder. Because they killed MacGregor, who had found them. Meanwhile, the insurance company and Alastair thank Sherlock Holmes.
German synchronization
The German dubbed version was created in 1969 on German television broadcasting in the GDR and was first broadcast there on April 17, 1969. Produced in the DEFA studio for dubbing in Weimar, Friedel Hohnwald took over the dialogue book and Wolfgang Thal the direction.
In a version made in 1980, which also comes from the GDR, Bernd Bartoszewski took over the book and Horst Schappo the direction.
role | actor | Dubbing (1969) | Dubbing (1980) |
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Sherlock Holmes | Basil Rathbone | Walter Niklaus | Walter Niklaus |
Dr. John Watson | Nigel Bruce | Alfred Bohl | Hinrich Koehn |
Alastair | Aubrey Mather | Georg-Heinrich Lange | Paul Arenkens |
Mr. Chalmers (Insurance) | Gavin Muir | Jürgen Zartmann | Heinz Behrens |
Capt. John Simpson | Harry Cording | Bert Brunn | Detlev Witte |
Alan Cosgrave | Holmes Herbert | Victor Draeger | Fritz Decho |
Inspector Lestrade | Dennis Hoey | Hans Gora | Klaus Glowalla |
Mrs. Montieth | Sally Shepard | Gertrud Klawitter | Anne Wollner |
Simon Merrivale | Paul Cavanagh | Dieter Leinhos | Wolfgang Lohse |
Reviews
See also
Web links
- The House of Fear in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- The House of Secrets in the online film database
- The House of Secrets in the Lexicon of International Films
Individual evidence
- ^ The House of Terror in the Lexicon of International Films . Retrieved August 6, 2014