The Whip (1916)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The whip |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1916 |
| length | 85 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Adolf Gärtner |
| script | Fritz Lang |
| production | Ernst Reicher |
| occupation | |
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The Whip (alternative title: The Mysterious Whip ) is a 1916 crime film in the Stuart Webbs film series .
action
The detective Stuart Webbs clears up the disappearance of diamond jewelry .
background
It was shot in the Stuart Webbs film studio in Berlin-Weißensee . It was produced by the Stuart Webbs-Film Company Reicher und Reicher (Berlin). According to the film producer Erich Pommer , the screenplay for "The Whip" was written by Fritz Lang . Since there is no other information about the scriptwriter , it must be considered uncertain whether the script actually comes from Lang. The film, which is considered lost, has a length of four or five acts at 1,560 meters. This corresponds to a length of approx. 85 minutes. The Berlin police issued a youth ban (No. 40112), and the Munich police demanded that it not be advertised as a detective film (No. 23152, 23153, 23154, 23155). On June 15, 1921, the Reich Film Censorship in Berlin imposed a youth ban (No. 3454). The premiere took place in December 1916 in the Berlin marble house. From 1921 Richard Kühn (Berlin) took over the film distribution.
Web links
- The whip in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The whip at The German Early Cinema Database
- The whip at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sturm, Georges: The Circe, the Peacock and the Half-Blood. Fritz Lang's films 1916 - 1921. Trier 2001 (= International Film History. 8), pp. 74–77.
- ↑ Film length calculator , frame rate : 16 2/3