The Saratoga suitcase
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Original title | The Saratoga suitcase |
Country of production | Germany |
original language | German |
Publishing year | 1917 |
length | approx. 79 minutes |
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Director | Rudolf Meinert |
script |
EA Dupont Rudolf Meinert |
production | Rudolf Meinert |
camera | AO Weitzenberg |
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The Saratoga case is a German crime film from 1917 in the Harry Higgs film series .
action
Harry Higgs' uncle, Mr. Clark, has passed away. This has appointed Harry as his executor. As an asset manager, Harry is supposed to keep an eye on the sums of money that have been left to the easy-going and useless cousin Reginald so that he does not squander his inheritance senselessly. Reginald Clark lives in Paris and has started a liaison with the married wife von Sawerski. The same lady is on the run; she had already been to Brussels and London before, always on the back of her jealous, much older husband.
Mrs. von Sawerski meets Higgs at the train station and asks him to take her Saratoga suitcase to London. During the customs formalities upon entry, Higgs has to open the suitcase and inside is: Reginald's corpse! A little later, Higgs learns from the newspaper that Reginald is said to have been killed in a car accident in Brussels. So there are two dead. Higgs is confused at first, but eventually comes up with the riddle of the two corpses.
Both dead are identified as Reginald Clark. Higgs discovers that the maid and her friend, the Sawerskis' valet, drugged Reginald in order to steal from him. Reginald died of a heart attack as a result of this violence. The valet unceremoniously stowed the dead Higgs cousin in Madames Saratoga suitcase and, as he looked very much like the dead man, traveled with Reggie's papers to Brussels, where he himself had a fatal accident.
Production notes
The Saratoga suitcase has a length of five files at 1624 meters. The film, shot from August 1917, was banned from young people after its censorship test in October of the same year and was premiered on November 16, 1917 in Berlin's Tauentzienpalast . In Austria-Hungary, where the film opened in Vienna on January 25, 1918, it was around 1,500 meters long.
Web links
- The Saratoga case at The German Early Cinema Database
- The Saratoga case at filmportal.de