The striped domino
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The striped domino |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1915 |
| length | 71 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Adolf Gärtner |
| script | Ernst Reicher |
| camera | Max Fassbender |
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The Striped Domino is a German detective film from 1915 in the Stuart Webbs film series .
action
The film begins with the lead actor Reicher and his director Gärtner standing in front of a filmed curtain, as in a theater performance, and bowing to the film audience.
Stuart Webbs is taking time out from his detective business. One day he receives a letter that was not meant for him at all. In it he learns about the son of an American millionaire who has been wrongly disinherited. After a series of entanglements and inquiries by Webb, who has to fight his way through a thicket of lies and deceit, the detective finds out that the stepbrother is behind the slander and internal family rifts. While the villainous stepson escapes the shame by suicide, Webb finally manages to uncover the truth and reconcile the remaining family members.
The film title refers to a sequence in which Stuart Webb appears in this striped domino at a masquerade ball. At this festival he resolves the story.
Production notes
Was filmed The striped Domino , the fifth film in this series, in the spring of 1915 in Stuart Webb's movie studio in Berlin-Weissensee in the Franz-Josef-Straße 9. The same company also was responsible for the production responsible. The striped domino has a length of three acts on 1302 meters, which corresponds to a playing time of almost 71 minutes. After the film was censored in May 1915, the premiere took place on September 1, 1915 in the Marmorhaus (Berlin).
Web links
- The striped Domino in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The striped domino at The German Early Cinema Database
- The striped domino at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thomas Elsaesser (Ed.): A Second Life: German Cinema's first Decades. Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam 1996, ISBN 90-5356-172-2 , p. 148 .
- ↑ Film length calculator , frame rate : 16 2/3