The green monocle
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The green monocle |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1929 |
| length | 80 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Rudolf Meinert |
| script |
Curt J. Braun Bobby E. Lüthge based on the novel of the same name (1927) by Guido Kreutzer |
| production | Marcel Hellmann for DLS, Berlin |
| music | Hansheinrich Dransmann |
| camera |
Willy Goldberger Curt Oertel |
| occupation | |
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The Green Monocle is a German detective and crime film from 1929 from the Stuart Webbs film series . Directed by Rudolf Meinert .
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The young Hans von Traß is a high-ranking German diplomat. One day an important secret document is stolen from the Legation Council. Strangely enough, his fiancée Christa Varell, who was lured to Hamburg with a bogus letter, accuses herself of theft in a letter. Master detective Stuart Webbs is entrusted with this strange case by the manager von Traß '- but is it really Webbs? No, it's the document thief himself, a certain McCornick, who has armed himself with Webbs' documents that an accomplice had stolen from the real detective and even got himself a green monocle that the real Stuart Webbs has been wearing for quite some time . Von Traß was deeply dismayed by the document theft and met the real Stuart Webbs on a trip. He is ready to take on the case and quickly finds out that this self-denouncing letter from Christa is a forgery. Webbs learns that McCornick is behind the theft - a light-shy figure who is a member of a foreign gang.
In the half-silk dancer Inez Rion, his lover, McCornick has an ally as well as in the two petty thugs Miller and Snyder, two of his henchmen. While Inez tries to cover up the traces of the theft as much as possible, Stuart finds out that she is the actual writer of the false self-denunciation letter. Webb forces Inez to confess and follows McCornick's heels by express train, car, plane and motorboat. The chase takes him to Montreux. There the crook can briefly dup him again. McCornick shoots an accomplice whom he feels betrayed by. Then there is a bitter gun battle between the real and the fake Stuart Webbs. Finally, the master detective lets go of the gang and arrest them. Legation Councilor von Traß receives his important document back.
Production notes
The film was shot in June and July 1929 in the UFA studios in Berlin-Tempelhof as well as in Berlin, Hamburg, Frankfurt am Main, Basel and Montreux (exterior shots). The film was based on a 1927 novel by Guido Kreutzer.
The Green Monocle , the penultimate Stuart Webbs film adventure, passed film censorship on September 7, 1929 and was banned from young people. The first performance took place on September 24, 1929 in Berlin's Titania Palace .
The film structures were designed by Robert Neppach , the execution was done by his young colleague Erwin Scharf . Louis Domke was the production manager.
Reviews
Lotte Eisner wrote in the Film-Kurier : “This time the crime film is becoming more of an adventure film. (...) Rudolf Meinert finds the tempo for this film, he lets the scenes follow one after the other, trying to be sharp. The surprising, which is sought in place of the mysterious, has its effect - the tension continues. (...) Ralph Cancy does away with the old man's previous detective individual in plaid Ulster and with the shag pipe. Undeterred, elegant with amiable mystery, he experiences his adventures. "
In the Frankfurter Zeitung one could read of Siegfried Kracauer : “The name Webbs has stayed, but not only has the wearer been reduced, the misdeeds have also become simpler. Ralph Cancy, the new Webbs, looks like a pupil of the old one and is less witty than a colored monocle. He doesn't see much in the other eye either. that he nevertheless gets to the bottom of the intrigue is largely due to its simplicity and the instructions of the manuscript. (…) The actors lack the pointed character, and the direction proceeds according to the usual scheme. The result is a piece of mediocre tension, which only arouses the longing that the original Webbs should go back on the hunt for more capable criminals himself. "
Vienna's Neue Freie Presse came to the following verdict: “A green monocle, which the detective sometimes sticks in his eye for no reason whatsoever, has the sole purpose of justifying the title. A film full of tension and hellish speed. A treat for detective novel lovers. Sherlock Holmes is trumped, Wallace is godfather. A new Stuart Webbs, Ernst Reicher's successor named Ralph Cancy, looks like a Japanese boxing champion with his small, broad nose, his mighty forehead and the slit eyes and shows a lot of dexterity. Of particular bravura Gaston Modot as a haunted rascal. Paul Hörbiger spreads real tramp humor. (...) The lovely Suzy Vernon and the ladylike Betty Bird bring a little grace into the cauldron, in which people steal, forge, beat and shoot with vehemence at fourth speed. "
Web links
- The green monocle in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The green monocle at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Film-Kurier, Berlin No. 228 of September 25, 1929.
- ^ Frankfurter Zeitung of October 6, 1929, Stadt-Blatt.
- ↑ "The Green Monocle". In: Neue Freie Presse , February 28, 1930, p. 8 (online at ANNO ).