The veiled lady
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The veiled lady |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1915 |
| length | approx. 82 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Richard Oswald |
| script | Richard Oswald |
| production | Lothar Stark |
| music | Giuseppe Becce |
| occupation | |
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The veiled lady is a German silent detective film from 1915 by Richard Oswald with Erich Kaiser-Titz in the leading role.
action
Count Gronau has invited to a soirée at which he proudly presents his latest acquisition, a diamond. Suddenly he is gripped by a slight discomfort. His general practitioner Dr. Morena takes care of him and promises to look after him again the next day. When the house servant leads Morena to his master the following morning, the lackey hears strange noises from the room a little later. When he is anxious to take a look, the doctor rushes towards him and out of the house. The servant looks and sees the count lying dead in his bed.
A case for master detective Engelbert Fox. He rushes over and states that the diamond has been stolen. In addition, the nose discovers a piece of whiskers in the closet that can be glued on for a masquerade or disguise. Fox concludes from this that it was not the doctor who paid the sick visit, but the murderer, who presented himself as Dr. Morena had disguised. A little later the real doctor appears and tells of the following experience, completely disturbed: Yesterday evening, a veiled lady turned up at his place and pleaded with him to come and see her sick father. Committed to the Hippocratic oath, he accepted her request and waited a while in a room of the lady's house. When no one came back, he found that he had been locked in. The next morning he was blindfolded and driven away in a car and was finally thrown out of the vehicle on the open road. When he heard of Gronau's violent death, he came here immediately.
When Fox and Morena are standing together in his house the next morning, the sniff notices that the veiled lady has obviously just passed them. He immediately takes up the chase. He sees her disappear into a house and gains entry. Fox comes across an old man. By looking at the mini mirror of his detective hat, he can also see the fearful look of that veiled lady. Fox hands the old gentleman a blank sheet of paper, which he picks up, but angrily drops it again when he sees that it is blank. The detective picks it up again and has a fingerprint that is important to him. Suddenly Engelbert Fox is captured and locked in the villa. While the villainous residents flee, the loopy fox escapes through the window and over the roofs.
The next day you can read in the newspaper that the nephew of the dead Count Gronau had arrived from America. Fox immediately went to the young Count Andreas to pay his respects and to investigate him. Count Andreas then invited Fox to a festival the following day. While they are both speaking, Fox catches a glimpse of the face of the now no longer veiled lady, whom he sees through the window of the anteroom. Since Fox would also like to have a fingerprint of Count Andreas, but this time could not get hold of it through his sleight of hand, he decides to pay this one night, unannounced visit. In fact, he can organize a fingerprint and almost fell into a trap. At the festival there is a surprise: Fox has come up with a shadow play, "The Mousetrap". As part of this small contribution, he recreates the deed committed by Count Andreas, and he has no choice but to confess.
Production notes
The Veiled Lady passed film censorship in October 1915 and premiered in December of that year. The four-stroke with a length of about 1500 meters was banned from youth. In Austria-Hungary, where The Veiled Lady had its mass start on December 17, 1915, the strip had a length of about 1,100 meters.
Director Oswald was also in charge of production.
criticism
“The veiled lady” presents itself as a detective drama in which the well-known director has apparently once again stored in abundance everything that a wealth of ideas and years of experience can offer him. A series of brilliantly thought-out tricks and surprising sensations forge a cleverly thought-out plot that the viewer must follow with interest and tension from beginning to end. In addition to the good direction, the impeccable portrayal of this picture must also be considered, for which Erich Kaiser-Titz in the role of the detective Fox is primarily responsible. "