The silver ball

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Movie
Original title The silver ball
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1916
Rod
Director Richard Oswald
script Paul Rosenhayn based
on his own novel The Brick
production Lothar Stark
occupation

The silver ball is a German silent film series crime thriller from 1916 by Richard Oswald around the master detective Engelbert Fox.

action

Edward Maxwell, lord of Duncan Castle, is found dead. A little later his daughter Daisy returns home. Your uncle dr. Maxwell hires the detective Engelbert Fox to find out the circumstances of his brother's death and to arrest the perpetrator or perpetrators. Fox gets to work immediately with the help of his loyal servant Fix. Fox finds out that the murderer or killers are probably aiming for a large sum of money. It should turn around a total of two million. The money was deposited in a safe place, and the deposit slip was kept in a silver ball that is in a no longer functional fountain.

It turns out that the housekeeper at the castle is the head of a small gang. She works closely with the three habitual criminals Harper, Brown and Winston. All four absolutely want to get hold of the deposit receipt, but do not know how to operate the mechanism that brings the ball upwards using a jet of water. Harper is particularly unscrupulous in his means and does not even have a crook's honor. He not only murdered Maxwell with a shot through the window, but also gets rid of his accomplices Brown and Winston: he kills Winston in the elevator, Brown in a hotel. In the end, however, he goes online with Fox and his loyal servant.

Production notes

The four- or five-act film, depending on the source, was censored in December 1915 and was shown for the first time in the Mozart Hall the following month .

With this series product, Oswald took part in one of the detective film series that was so popular during the First World War . It was the third film in the so-called Richard Oswald series in 1915/16. He was also involved in this film as a production manager .

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