The House of Secrets (1945)

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Movie
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
Rod
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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←  Predecessor
The Pearl of the Borgia

Successor  →
The Woman in Green

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)
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

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ The House of Terror in the Lexicon of International FilmsTemplate: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used . Retrieved August 6, 2014