The puzzling ad

Movie
Original title	The puzzling ad
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1916
Rod
Director	Karl Gerhardt Joe May
script	Joe May
production	Joe May
camera	Willy Goldberger
occupation
Harry Liedtke : Joe Deebs Leopold Bauer : Kommerzienrat von Sterneck Hugo Flink : Kurt von Sterneck, his son Kurt Busch : Hans Kronau, notary Joe Konradi : Greiner, Sterneck's private secretary Ernst Ludwig : Wilmers, office manager at Kronau Else Roscher : Olly Polly, chansonette

The puzzling ad is a 1916 detective film in the Joe Deebs film series .

action

A big industrialist just leaves his son a letter. He should not open this until two years later when a certain advertisement appears in the newspaper. When this happens, the son finds out that his father left him a sizable fortune. In order to protect him from being ripped off by a certain girl, he had kept this from his son. Unfortunately, a gang of criminals has usurped the money. Joe Deebs takes on the task of helping the heir to his claim, which he also succeeds.

background

The film is four acts long . It was produced by May-Film GmbH (Berlin). The censorship went through The Enigmatic Advertisement in October 1916. The Berlin police banned the film with a youth ban (No. 39936), the Munich police did not allow it to be advertised as a detective film (No. 22950, ​​22851, 22852, 22853). The world premiere took place on December 22, 1916 or December 29, 1916 in the Tauentzienpalast in Berlin.

Web links

• The puzzling ad on The German Early Cinema Database
• The puzzling advertisement at the Murnau Foundation
• The puzzling advertisement at filmportal.de
• The enigmatic advertisement in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ The puzzling advertisement at the Murnau Foundation
2. ↑ The enigmatic advertisement in the Internet Movie Database (English)
3. ↑ The puzzling advertisement at filmportal.de