The armored vault (1926)

Movie
Original title	The armored vault
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1926
length	approx. 108 minutes
Rod
Director	Lupu pick
script	Lupu Pick Curt Johannes Braun
production	Lupu Pick for Rex-Film, Berlin
music	Josef von Streletzky
camera	Gustave Preiss
occupation
Ernst Reicher : Stuart Webbs Johannes Riemann : Elgin Imogene Robertson : Ellen, his wife Heinrich George : Cracker Aud Egede Nissen : Ronna Siegfried Arno : Sandy Max Gülstorff : Craigh Hugo Fischer-Köppe : Bobby Julius E. Herrmann : the fat one Hadrian Maria Netto : the elegant one Erich Kaiser-Titz : the brutal Paul Rehkopf : the artist Fritz Rulard : the engineer Louis Brody : the chauffeur Ernst Behmer : the servant Artur Retzbach : first examining magistrate Julius Falkenstein : second examining magistrate Jakob Tiedtke : third examining magistrate Geza L. Weisz : a cyclist

The Panzergewölbe is a German detective film from 1926 in the Stuart Webbs film series . The title role is played by Ernst Reicher , who played this role in the first film in 1914 .

action

A gang of gangsters has lured Stuart Webbs into a lonely mansion and holds him prisoner there. The crooks want to prevent him from getting in their way when counterfeiting banknotes. The flowers are made in the armored vault of a manufacturer who has been put under massive pressure to allow the criminals access. Soon Webbs is able to free himself and escape his prison, while the manufacturer finds himself locked in his own armored vault together with the crooks and exposed to suffocation and starvation in a nightmare. Freed again, Webbs takes up the fight against the gang of counterfeiters and can ensure that they are put behind bars.

Production notes

The tank vault was filmed in April / May 1926 in the Berlin-Staaken studio. The film passed censorship on October 5, 1926 and was banned from youth. The first performance took place on December 30, 1926 in the Tauentzienpalast . The seven-act film was 2,729 meters long.

Rudi Feld created the buildings.

Since the 1914 version Das Panzergewölbe was considered the most commercially successful film in the entire series, it was decided twelve years later to make this remake, which was only loosely based on the original.

criticism

In Paimann's film lists you can read: "Only the motif of the armored vault, this time in dream form, has been taken from the film of the time, unfortunately not various other quite original details. But the plot of the present film is very exciting, with some pleasant cheerful interludes provided, the direction is pretty tight, the portrayal in all roles is very good, the secondary characters are also embodied by first-class actors. Presentation and photography are quite clean. "

Web links

• The armored vault in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• The tank vault at filmportal.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ cf. Oskar Kalbus: On becoming German film art. 1st part: The silent film. Berlin 1935, p. 38.
2. ^ Heinrich Fraenkel: Immortal Film. The great chronicle from the Laterna Magica to the sound film. Munich 1956, p. 391.
3. ↑ Das Panzergewölbe ( Memento of the original from March 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in Paimann's film lists