The claw

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Movie
German title The claw
Original title The Scarlet Claw
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1944
length 74 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Roy William Neill
script Edmund L. Hartmann ,
Roy William Neill
production Roy William Neill
music Hans J. Salter ,
Charles Previn ,
Paul Sawtell ,
Frank Skinner
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
The Spider's Nest

Successor  →
The Pearl of the Borgia

The Claw is an American film about Sherlock Holmes that, like most of the series , is not based on any of the stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle . The film story comes from the pen of screenwriter Paul Gangelin .

action

Mysterious things are going on in a village in Canada and are being discussed at an occult conference. Sherlock Holmes attends such a conference and learns that Lady Penrose, the wife of Lord Penrose, was murdered in La Morte Rouge. She was found with her throat cut in the village chapel.

The belief in an occult phenomenon is reinforced by Lord Penrose. Holmes and Dr. Watson try to solve the case with elementary logic. Holmes digs into the past of the dead and discovers that Lady Penrose was in truth the long-missing actress Lillian Gentry.

In the moor he meets the legendary monster that seems to glow in the dark. After further murders of Judge Brisson and later also of Marie, the daughter of the hotel owner Emile Journet, Sherlock Holmes comes on the trail of the murderer. The modus operandi is always death by a small garden rake .

German synchronization

The German dubbed version was created in 1969 on German television broadcasting in the GDR and was first broadcast on May 22, 1969. The main roles were spoken by Walter Niklaus (Sherlock Holmes) and Alfred Bohl (Dr. Watson).

See also

DVD

The film was released in 2007 together with the films Die Perle der Borgia and Das Haus des Schreckens on Koch Media Home Entertainment in a 3-DVD set. It contains both dubbed versions of the film and an audio commentary by a Sherlock Holmes expert.

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