The spotted tie
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The Spotted Tie The Clifford Case |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1917 |
| length | 65 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | William Kahn |
| script | William Kahn |
| production | William Kahn |
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The Spotted Tie , filmed as The Clifford Case , is a German silent crime film from 1917 from the Rat-Anheim series . Carl Auen plays the detective .
action
The criminological Fuchs Rat Anheim is charged with a particularly tricky case of embezzlement in a bank. The director of the central bank disappeared and the coffers were immediately revised. But there is no missing part. When the bank's cashier, Benson, also disappears, Anheim makes his way to his apartment and watches it. He gets to know the new resident of the accommodation and searches the same when the new resident is out. Rat Anheim makes a discovery. He fishes a strange letter out of the desk drawer. From the letter, the nose can tell that the bank director had stolen from his own company several years ago, but later returned the stolen amount with interest and compound interest.
It is only strange that the cash audit did not show the expected surplus of around one million. Rat Anheim is certain that Benson must have known about it and then appropriated the excess. The detective soon finds out that the new tenant is none other than the old one - only in disguise. Since the council cannot prove anything from the thief, but knows that he is playing, he wants to convict Benson with a trick and at the same time take the stolen money away from him. Anheim disguises himself as an Australian millionaire and challenges him at poker . The sum increases from time to time until Benson wagers his entire million. In doing so, he exposes himself as a perpetrator.
Production notes
The spotted tie was made in the Saturn film studio in Berlin's Große Frankfurter Strasse, passed censorship in November 1917 and was shown in the Union Palace in Berlin the following month. The film was 1,343 meters long, divided into four acts. There were no subtitles. A youth ban was issued.