The haunted castle of Baskermore
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| Original title | The haunted castle of Baskermore |
| Country of production | Federal Republic of Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1974 |
| length | 77 minutes |
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| Director | Rolf Olsen |
| script | Géza from Cziffra |
| production | Christian-Lutz Laske for Tele-Contact on behalf of the Hessischer Rundfunk |
| music | Sonoton |
| camera | Klaus Werner |
| cut | Michael Eder , Manfred Mayr-Haug |
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Das Spukschloß von Baskermore (alternative title: Käpt'n Senkstakes Abenteuer - Das Spukschloß von Baskermore ) is a German television comedy with Hans-Joachim Kulenkampff in the leading role of Captain Senkstake. It was first broadcast on March 23, 1974. The production was the second film in the three-part series Captain Senkstakes Adventure . The three films (first film Ay, Ay, Sheriff , third film Honorary Chief of the Watubas ) had no direct context in terms of content and were all broadcast in 1974.
action
A Scottish North Sea port before the First World War . The Bremen captain Karl Wilhelm Senkstake and his novice Bruno are in a pub involved -Visit of locals in a fight that win the two sailors effortlessly. There they meet a young lady, Polly Lobster, and her little brother Donald. Polly and her three siblings have the old by her recently deceased father castle inherited Baskermore Castle. They have already offered the property to an Indian maharajah as they lack the means to support it. Polly and Donald want to visit the castle to prepare to receive the maharajah. Since Senkstakes freighter unexpectedly has a 14-day stop because of a delayed cargo, the captain decides to help out with Bruno Polly and Donald.
On the way to the castle, the four travelers are warned by locals of eerie events at Baskermore Castle. But as it turns out, the nightmare is in the form of ghosts from a whiskey -producing bootleggers gang staged that has worked with Polly's father and now is afraid to fly up where the dead his former employees Testament did not consider. The gang also includes the butler Tombstone and the housekeeper Phyllis McIntosh. It also gets turbulent when Maharajah Salaman arrives in Baskermore with his harem and eunuchs .
Finally, the band with the help Senkstakes and Donalds can be taken by surprise: The castle is owned by the siblings Lobster, and Polly and the investigating police - Sergeant become lovers. The maharaja's harem also includes the Hamburg dancer Hanne, who Senkstake already knows from a visit to the Hanseatic city (Senkstake to Hanne: "The Hanne from the 'silver jug'!"). She had gone abroad out of a thirst for adventure, kidnapped by traffickers and sold to the Maharajah. Senkstake and Bruno help her escape and smuggle her past the port authorities onto her steamer so that Hanne can return to Hamburg.
criticism
The Hamburger Abendblatt characterized the film at the time as a “silly adventure”, against which the “worst Edgar Wallace ham ” was still a “pearl of film art .” (Seen on the weekend, in: Hamburger Abendblatt of March 25, 1974)
Trivia
The plot and figure drawing of the series shows a strong resemblance to the comic Captain Knaller , which appeared from 1969 to 1973 in the Federal Republic.
Lore
A VHS edition of “Silwa Video” apparently appeared as early as the 1980s. In 2019 a DVD edition was released by Pidax .