The Harvard Premium

Movie
Original title	The Harvard Premium
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1917
Rod
Director	Siegfried Philippi
script	Paul Rosenhayn
occupation
Léon Rains : Joe Jenkins Leopold von Ledebur : Harris Green (manufacturer) Heinz Sarnow : Engineer Burley (fiance) Claire Praetz : Grace Kimball (fiancee)

The Harvard Premium (alternative title Weird Letters ) is a 1917 crime film in the Joe Jenkins silent film series .

action

Joe Jenkins solves a murder that happened for financial and erotic reasons.

background

The film was produced by Atlantic Film (Aarhus, Denmark) (No. 61), and it was shot in the studios of Eiko-Film. It had a length of four files at 1,440 meters, about 79 minutes. The censors checked the film in July 1917. The Berlin police imposed a youth ban on it (No. 40783), the Munich police did not allow it to be advertised as a detective film (No. 25028, 25029, 25030, 25031). The world premiere was in August 1917 in the Tauentzienpalast.

Web links

• The Harvard premium in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• The Harvard premium at filmportal.de
• The Harvard Award at The German Early Cinema Database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Film length calculator , frame rate : 16 2/3