The mysterious villa
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The mysterious villa |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1914 |
| length | 72 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Joe May |
| script | Ernst Reicher |
| production | Continental art film, Berlin |
| camera | Max Fassbender |
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The mysterious villa is the title of the first detective film in the German film series Stuart Webbs, shot in 1913 .
action
A young woman is kidnapped by a group of gangsters who pretend to be a secret society and call themselves "The Black Triangle". Stuart Webbs is tasked with freeing the abductee. The kidnapper's trail leads him to a house, the eponymous, mysterious villa, which is equipped with plenty of hidden traps such as trap doors and pitfalls. However, after numerous incidents, Stuart Webbs is able to overpower the criminals and bring the girl to safety.
Production notes
The first Stuart Webbs film was shot at the end of 1913 in the Berlin Continental Film Atelier at Chausseestrasse 123. The same company was also responsible for production. The mysterious villa has a length of four acts at 1,322 meters, which corresponds to a playing time of approx. 72 minutes. After passing the film censorship on January 26, 1914, the premiere took place on March 13, 1914 in the Berlin Chamber Light Theater on Potsdamer Platz. However, the Munich police imposed a youth ban on him (No. 13604, 13605, 13606, 13607), and the Reichsfilmcensorship again on July 1, 1921 (No. 2677). In May 1914 the film was also shown in the United States under the title The Black Triangle .
The film structures are made by Paul Leni . Julius Falkenstein made his film debut here.
Reviews
The trade press was enthusiastic and saw in the work a “without exaggeration a new, infinitely more perfect phase in the field of detective films.” May's colleague Arzen von Cserépy praised May's “directing talent and means, the harmony between To create action, representation and milieu ”.
“This colleague of Sherlock Holmes has the task of finding the kidnappers of a young lady, and one experiences the phases of his difficult enterprise from beginning to end, that is to say from the only existing find, a hair, to the bondage of the perpetrator. The main role is played by the author of the film, Ernst Reicher, the son of Emanuel Reicher, spirited and with that natural superiority without which, after reading countless detective novels, one can no longer imagine a detective. "
Web links
- The mysterious villa in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The mysterious mansion at The German Early Cinema Database
- The mysterious villa at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Film length calculator , frame rate : 16 2/3
- ↑ Photo-Stage from January 31, 1914
- ↑ Photo-Stage from May 16, 1914
- ^ The day of March 15, 1914