Just a thousand dollars

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Movie
Original title Just a thousand dollars
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1918
length 72 minutes
Rod
Director Rudolf Meinert
script EA Dupont
camera Rudolf Meinert
occupation

Just for a thousand dollars , sometimes also under Just for 1000 dollars , is a crime film from the German film series Harry Higgs . It was created in the winter of 1917/18 under the direction of Rudolf Meinert with Hans Mierendorff in the leading role of the detective.

action

The gem collector John Mitchell makes a strange bet with his club friend Robert Leroy: He bets $ 1,000 that he will commit a crime in the next five days without the detective Harry Higgs convicting him of it. Another club member, a certain Alfons Thauret, gets wind of the matter and seizes the opportunity to commit a crime that Mitchell could well blame: he committed a cunning theft of jewels. Of course, Higgs is not so easily fooled and clears the two cases.

Production notes

In March 1918 the censorship passed for a thousand dollars , was banned from young people and was premiered on April 18, 1918 in Berlin's Tauentzienpalast . The film ran in Austria-Hungary from August 16, 1918.

criticism

In Paimann's film lists you can read: “Fabric is fantastic. Game, photos and scenery are very good. "

Individual evidence

  1. Just a thousand dollars on Paimann's film lists

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