The man who was Sherlock Holmes

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Movie
Original title The man who was Sherlock Holmes
The Sherlock Holmes man was Logo 001.svg
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1937
length 107 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Karl Hartl
script RA Stemmle ,
Karl Hartl
production Alfred Greven
music Hans Sommer
camera Fritz Arno Wagner
cut Gertrud Hinz
occupation

The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes is a comedic crime film and at the same time a Sherlock Holmes pastiche by the Austrian director Karl Hartl from 1937 . The premiere was on July 15, 1937 in Berlin in the Ufa-Palast am Zoo .

action

The financially bare English detectives Flynn and McPherson travel as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson dressed up for the Brussels World's Fair , where they hope to get orders. Without money for tickets, they stop the night train to Brussels on the open route and are actually mistaken for the famous detective and his partner by the conductors as well as by two shady characters who are fleeing from the car. The detective duo can now requisition their compartment in the otherwise fully occupied train for "control purposes". It also "hears" the sisters Mary and Jane Berry in the next compartment and takes a liking to the seamstresses who are on their way to the property of their deceased uncle to take over his inheritance.

The detectives move into a suite in the renowned Palace Hotel in Brussels. The detectives found large sums of money in three currencies and encrypted plans in secret compartments in the suitcases of the two escaped train travelers. A pair of crooks, Madame Ganymare and Monsieur Lapin, who also reside in the hotel, try to get money and plans from "their friends", but when they break into the detectives' room, they only come across the deposit receipt from a costume rental company. With the threat of exposing the two detectives, it offers to exchange the receipt for money and plans.

The arrival of the famous "Sherlock Holmes" spreads and he is summoned to the police. Relieved that this does not happen because of their exposure, the duo accept the clarification of a case with which the Brussels police seem overwhelmed: four Mauritius postage stamps were stolen at the world exhibition and replaced by forgeries. A ransom note for 600,000 francs has already been received. Uncle Berry had suggested borrowing the stamps. The detectives go to the castle of the deceased, where the executor has found the cash heir of 200,000 francs missing. “Holmes” resolves that Uncle Berry paid the 200,000 francs to the thieves for the brands. However, with a forgery workshop hidden in the castle, he was part of the gang that he supplied with forged stamps and banknotes. When he announced that he was leaving, a letter from a pawnshop was received prohibiting him from doing so, and Uncle Berry died of heart failure. The gang stole the brands back. The detective duo returns to Brussels with the sisters, meanwhile wanted by the police via a wanted poster.

With this in hand, "Holmes" pretends to seek protection in the pawnshop. The boss, however, is the couple's man from the hotel who has "Holmes" captured by his people and also "Watson", who should actually be waiting outside and call the police in an emergency. "Holmes" staged a brief escape and a fight and stole the pocket watch of the gang leader who, after noticing the theft, rammed the iron door of the coal cellar into which he had the detectives locked and in which they now barricade themselves. In literally the last second, they are rescued by the police, notified by Mary Berry, who arrest the gang and the duo.

Flynn and McPherson are on trial. You are accused of imposture with fraudulent intent to have deceived the police and the director of the world exhibition. You defend yourself by always having denied being Holmes and Watson when asked. In addition, they helped justice to victory, convicted the thieves and counterfeiters, cleared up three international bank robberies and returned the stolen money to the banks, sent the deciphered plans for another one to the police and recovered the stamps that were in a false bottom of the Turn up pocket watch. A knowledgeable boy identifies them as the real brands.

Now only the identity theft of the person Sherlock Holmes is to be pursued further. Arthur Conan Doyle , who has been following the case with amusement in the courtroom the whole time, reveals himself and explains that Holmes and Watson are only fictional characters , so that there can be no real assumption of a false identity. He gave the two of his consent retrospectively on the condition that he could write about them in a book entitled "The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes".

The court case is set to the cheering of many visitors, Flynn kisses Mary and McPherson Jane Berry.

Reviews

  • Lexicon of International Films:
"Two little private detectives dress up as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. in order to advertise and increase publicity. Watson and have turbulent adventures during the Paris (actually: Brussels) World's Fair. The lively, lively Hans Albers / Heinz Rühmann comedy was broadcast by ZDF in the reconstructed original version. "
  • Heyne Film Lexicon:
"Fast-paced crime comedy that is extremely entertaining."

Others

  • The shooting took place from March to May 1937 in the Ufa -Ateliers Neubabelsberg , today's Studio Babelsberg in Potsdam .
  • The appearance of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (portrayed by Paul Bildt ) was not allowed to be shown on television broadcasts of the film until the 1970s because of the objection of his heirs. The real Doyle had passed away years before the film.
  • Famous are the theme song and the hit “Jawoll, Meine Herr'n”, which the detectives sing in the bathtubs of the hotel suite (text by Richard Busch; melody by Hans Sommer). In the film, the song is supplemented by several spoken dialogues between Albers and Rühmann (and overheard by the hotel detective):
Albers: "If you sit behind the stove and the time is of little use,"
Rühmann: "Although it saves energy,"
Albers: “But it won't achieve anything either. But if you don't ask a lot "
Rühmann: "and go undaunted,"
Albers: "For him there is no question mark and the like,"
Rühmann: "until he makes it."
Albers: "Yes, my lords,"
Rühmann: "We like it that way,"
Albers: "because from now on the world belongs to us."
Rühmann: "Yes, my lords, the worries are far away,"
Albers: "we do what we like."
Both: "And whoever disturbs us is before he understands it, long ago lathered by us."
Albers: "Yes, my lords,"
Rühmann: "You can swear on it,"
Albers: "Yes,"
Rühmann: "Yes,"
Both: "Yeah."
  • On the other hand, on the successful record released in the same year, it is Rühmann and not Albers who start singing.
  • The train that the two detectives stop on their way to Brussels is driven by a locomotive with the clearly legible Reichsbahn road number 17 1162 (a Prussian S 10 1 type 1914). When they got in, in the corridor near the door you can see a fire extinguisher with the inscription "DR" ( Deutsche Reichsbahn ), which was only founded in 1920, while the Brussels World Exhibition , to which the trip is supposed to go, took place in 1910. The operating number system with the series numbers from 01 to 99 was only introduced at the Reichsbahn with the final re-labeling plan from 1925.

Edits

The composer Marc Schubring and the author Wolfgang Adenberg processed the material into a musical that premiered on January 23, 2009 at the Dresden State Operetta .

See also

literature

  • RA Stemmle : The man who was Sherlock Holmes. Novel based on the film of the same name by RA Stemmle and Karl Hartl . Full paperback edition. Droemer Knaur, Munich and Zurich 1981, 174 pages, ISBN 3-426-00730-4
  • Michael Ross (ed.): Sherlock Holmes in film and television. A manual . Baskerville books, Cologne 2003, 237 pages, ISBN 3-930932-03-2

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The man who was Sherlock Holmes. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. ↑ Hans-Michael Bock and Michael Töteberg: "The Ufa Book - Art and Crises, Stars and Directors, Economy and Politics (The International History of Germany's Largest Film Group)" . Verlag Zweausendeins, Frankfurt am Main 1992, p. 356.
  3. ^ Film portal: "The man who was Sherlock Holmes" filmportal.de, accessed April 1, 2019