The footprint
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| Original title | The footprint | ||
| Country of production | Germany | ||
| original language | German | ||
| Publishing year | 1917 | ||
| length | approx. 73 minutes | ||
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| Director | Rudolf Meinert | ||
| script | Leopold Bauer | ||
| production | Rudolf Meinert | ||
| camera | AO Weitzenberg | ||
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The Footprint is a German crime film from 1917 in the Harry Higgs film series .
action
Alan Thonbury is a great company at home. Among other things, gambling is practiced, and Alan goes to great lengths to strip his competitor Greg to the last shirt. The reason: Alan's wife Ruth fell in love with Greg. In order to put an end to him, Alan buys Greg's bill from moneylender Brown and also demands that Brown no longer lend Greg a single penny.
In fact, Greg turns up at Brown and, watched by Alan, asks again for a loan. When he does not receive any cash injection, he leaves again, as does Alan. The next day, Brown is found dead. Harry Higgs is made aware of the case through an anonymous letter and attempts to solve the riddle. After several wrong leads that have been laid out for him, he is able to find the real culprit in Brown's mentally less affluent nephew Toby.
Production notes
The footprint is four files long . The film was shot in the spring of 1917, and the premiere took place on March 28, 1917 in the Tauentzienpalast in Berlin . In Austria-Hungary, where the film opened in Vienna on August 24, 1917, it was around 1,500 meters long.
For the cameraman AO Weitzenberg this was the first film that he was allowed to photograph independently.