The horror in the Ardon house
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The world conqueror |
| Original title | The horror in the Ardon house |
| Country of production | Germany |
| Publishing year | 1920 |
| length | 5 acts, 1855 meters, at 20 fps 81 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Robert Wiene |
| script | ? |
| production | Stuart Webbs Film Company Reicher & Reicher, Munich |
| camera | Karl friend |
| occupation | |
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The horror in the Ardon house , also: The World Conqueror , is the title of a silent crime drama that Robert Wiene realized in 1920 for the Stuart Webbs Film Company. This time Fritz Greiner played the master detective Stuart Webbs .
action
An international criminal syndicate is trying to get hold of the scientific knowledge of the chemical company Ardon and will stop at nothing. It even hypnotizes the wife of the chemist Ardon to get his invention. But Ardon finds out about them, kills the boss of the gang and forgives his wife for treason when he realizes that she did not act of her own free will. Detective Stuart Webbs can solve the case.
background
The film, a production by Stuart Webbs Film Company Reicher & Reicher, Munich, was photographed by Karl Freund . He lay on August 4, 1920, the Reich Film Censorship Munich before and was banned under the number M00036 for young people. For reasons that are no longer comprehensible, it was not until July 1921 in Berlin in the BTL Potsdamerstr. Premiered.
The cinema poster was designed by the Munich graphic artist Ludwig Hohlwein .
From April 28, 1924, the film was also shown in Denmark under the title Rædslernes hus (German: House of Terror ).
reception
The film is mentioned in
- Photo stage No. 4, 1920
- First International Cinematographers Magazine No. 5, 1920
- Film Courier No. 175, 1921
- The film No. 31, 1921
- German film newspaper (fr. Süddt. FZ) (= DFZ) No. 32x, 1921
Web links
- The horror in the house Ardon in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The world conquerors at filmportal.de
- The horror in the Ardon house at The German Early Cinema Database # 42053
- Panic in the House of Ardon at en.wiki
Illustration
- Advertisement by the Metropol-Theater Dithmarschen for Saturday and Sunday, July 30th and 31st, 1921 for “Die Welteroberer. Film drama in 5 acts with Stella Harf. Before: The tolerant woman. Drama in 3 acts with Theodor Loos. Beginning at 8.15 a.m. "
literature
- Paolo Caneppele: Decisions of the Tyrolean film censorship 1919–1920–1921. with an index of films banned in Tyrol from 1916 to 1922. Film Archive Austria, 2002, ISBN 3-901932-11-9 , p. 246.
- Rolf Giesen: The Nosferatu Story: The Seminal Horror Film, Its Predecessors and Its Enduring Legacy. McFarland Verlag, 2019, ISBN 978-1-4766-7298-4 , pp. 144-145.
- Uli Jung, Walter Schatzberg: Beyond Caligari: The Films of Robert Wiene. Berghahn Books, 1999, p. 93 u. 209-210.
- Uli Jung, Walter Schatzberg: Robert Wiene: the Caligari director. Henschel Verlag, 1995, ISBN 3-89487-233-0 , pp. 98, 199.
Individual evidence
- ↑ so on the movie poster by Hohlwein; "The World Conquerors" in the advertisement from Dithmarschen. According to Jung-Schatzberg, Beyond Caligari, p. 93 (after Der Film 6, No. 31, 1921, p. 67) that was the original title.
- ↑ according to filmportal.de "Examination: February 1920"!
- ↑ cf. Birett, sources on film history 1920–1931 "M00036 Horrors in the Ardon House, The 1920".
- ↑ cf. Jung, Schatzberg: Beyond Caligari, p. 93.
- ↑ BTL stood for “Biophon Theater Lichtspiele”, which opened in 1913 at Potsdamer Straße 38, cf. square7.ch
- ↑ fig. at pinterest.co.uk (accessed July 6, 2020) and slub-dresden.de
- ↑ cf. IMDb / release info