Crows fly around the tower
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Crows fly around the tower |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1917 |
| length | 103 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Joe May |
| script | Joe May William Kahn |
| production | Joe May |
| camera | Curt Courant |
| occupation | |
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Crows Fly Around the Tower is a 1917 crime film in the Joe Deebs film series .
action
The mushroom grower Finster is hired by a stranger, a certain Mr. Smit, as secretary. A few days the grower noticed that someone had broken into his cellar and destroyed the mushroom beds. Finster hires Joe Deebs to track down the perpetrator. The central track leads the master detective to Professor Robert Kalton, who is currently developing a serum.
The resolution of the case has a remarkable history. That Kalton had surprised his cousin some time ago when he stole a letter and then believed he had killed him. In order to avoid police investigations and a possible arrest, Kalton has since used a connecting passage that existed between Finsters' cellar and his villa with a tower. Only the crows circling the tower bring Deebs on the trail of the missing cousin. He is actually dead, but was only anesthetized by Kalton and later hit his skull in a fall.
background
The film was produced by May-Film GmbH Berlin (No. 7). It has a length of five acts at 1786 meters, about 103 minutes. The Berlin police issued a youth ban in July 1917 (No. 40777), the Munich police forbade the announcement as a detective film (No. 25407, 25408, 25409, 25410, 25411). The premiere was on November 23, 1917 in the Tauentzien Palace in Berlin.
criticism
“In terms of content, of the qualities of those films that work with trap doors, underground passages and ingredients, that know how to weave the mysterious magic around the infallibility of the detective and that through all of this know how to achieve a tension that lasts until the crime is uncovered. Or like here, until the suspicion is taken from a wrongly accused. "
Web links
- Crows fly around the tower at The German Early Cinema Database
- Crows fly around the tower at filmportal.de
- Crows flying around the tower in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Crows fly around the tower at the Murnau Foundation
Individual evidence
- ↑ Film length calculator , frame rate : 16 2/3
- ↑ Crows fly around the tower at the Murnau Foundation