The armored vault (1914)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The armored vault |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1914 |
| length | 60 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Joe May |
| script |
Ernst Reicher Joe May |
| production | Ernst Reicher Joe May |
| camera | Max Fassbender |
| occupation | |
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The Panzergewölbe is a German detective film from 1914 in the Stuart Webbs film series .
action
Stuart Webbs, who has been pressured by a gang of gangsters to intimidate him for some time, discovers that this same gang is planning their greatest coup. She got into an armored bank vault to blow it up. Once in possession of the real banknotes located there, the crooks, whose main occupation is counterfeiting, plan to flood the city with their counterfeit money without this being noticed any further. To put an end to them, Stuart Webbs tries to turn them off in the basement. But the gang is well prepared: They have installed cameras that broadcast exactly what the detective outside is planning. However, thanks to his courageous commitment, he can stop them at the last minute.
Production notes
The film was shot in the spring of 1914 in the studio of Continental-Kunstfilm at Chausseestrasse 123. It was produced by the Stuart Webbs-Film Company Reicher und Reicher (Berlin). The armored vault has a length of four acts by 1103 meters, which corresponds to about 60 minutes. The world premiere took place on June 26, 1914 in the Kammerlichtspiele at Potsdamer Platz (Berlin).
The film structures come from the hand of Paul Leni .
The Panzergewölbe is considered to be the most commercially successful film of the entire series and was remade in 1926 due to this box-office success by Lupu Pick , also with Reicher in the Webbs role.
Web links
- The armored vault in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The armored vault at The German Early Cinema Database
- The tank vault at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Film length calculator , frame rate : 16 2/3
- ^ Oskar Kalbus: On the becoming of German film art . 1st part: The silent film . Berlin 1935, p. 38.
- ^ Heinrich Fraenkel: Immortal Film. The great chronicle from the Laterna Magica to the sound film. Munich 1956, p. 391.