Harry Wills (movie character)

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Harry Wills was a fictional German film detective of the silent film era.

history

The actors Hans Adalbert Schlettow and Carl de Vogt appeared one after the other as "private detective Harry Wills" in three silent crime films from 1921 directed by Hans Werckmeister . The name is only mentioned in the title of one of the films. Whether a whole series of detective dramas was planned with this character cannot be said with any certainty due to the lack of further evidence.

The films were photographed by Emil Schünemann , they were produced by the Mecklenburg Obotrit film factory “Offak” Schwerin, which existed for only three years, from 1920 to 1923, in which it produced melodramas, crime novels and action films.

Filmography

  • 1921: The supper at midnight. Adventure of the detective Harry Wills (Detective: Schlettow)
  • 1921: The treasure chamber in the lake, 1st part: Brilliant marten (detective: DeVogt)
  • 1921: The Treasure Chamber in the Lake, Part 2: The Club of Twelve (Detective: DeVogt)

Re-performances

The cinema in the arsenal of the German Historical Museum in Berlin performed “Das Souper at midnight. Adventure of the detective Harry Wills ”after the restoration by the Federal Archives on October 5, 2012 in his series“ Re-discovered ”curated by CineGraph Babelsberg with live piano accompaniment by John R. Carlson and an introduction by Heiko Kreft, Berlin.

The State Museum Schwerin and the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology e. V. showed the film on Thursday, February 7, 2013 at 6 p.m. in the Oudry Hall of the State Museum in Schwerin. The introduction was given by Heiko Kreft, Berlin.

The journalist, screenwriter and producer Heiko Kreft, who was born in Schwerin in 1975, shot a 45-minute documentary in 2012 about the Obotrit film factory “Offak”. It was made together with the film “The midnight supper. Adventure of the detective Harry Wills ”on Sunday, October 21, 2013 at 7 pm in the Rostock“ Lichtspieltheater Wundervoll ”in the presence of the director.

literature

  • Alan Goble: The International Film Index, 1895–1990: Film titles. Bowker-Saur Verlag, 1991, ISBN 0-86291-623-2 , p. 1949.
  • Sebastian Hesse: camera eye and nose. The detective in early German cinema. Verlag Stroemfeld-Roter Stern, 2003, ISBN 3-87877-765-5 , p. 291.
  • Heiko Kreft: Offak Story - the dream of Hollywood in the provinces. On the history of the state Obotrit film factory in Mecklenburg Schwerin 1920–1923. In: Mecklenburgische Jahrbücher. 125, 2010, p. 267 and 293.
  • Heinz-Hermann Meyer: “Offak, actually: Obotrit Filmfabrik”. in the dictionary of film terms.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. filmportal.de , Heinz-Hermann Meyer: “Offak, actually: Obotrit Filmfabrik”. in the dictionary of film terms.
  2. ↑ Offak. in the dictionary of film terms. Retrieved June 16, 2018.
  3. ↑ Censorship: August 16, 1921, cf. filmportal.de
  4. ↑ Examination: June 18, 1921, cf. filmportal.de
  5. ↑ Examination: June 18, 1921, cf. filmportal.de
  6. ↑ cf. PDF
  7. ↑ cf. kreuzbruchhof.de
  8. ↑ Li.wu. in the Metropol, Barnstorfer Weg 4, Rostock
  9. ↑ Title: The Offak Story - the dream of Hollywood in the provinces, cf. filmbuero-mv.de
  10. ↑ Offak. in the dictionary of film terms. Retrieved June 16, 2018.