Stuart Webbs (film series)

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Stuart Webbs was a crime series by producers Joe May (until 1914) and Ernst Reicher , which was created between autumn 1913 and autumn 1929.

history

The role of Stuart Webbs was played by Ernst Reicher and once each by Fritz Greiner , Ralph Clancy and Karl Ludwig Diehl . Joe May directed it himself, but directors Adolf Gärtner , Johannes Guter , Max Obal , Robert Wiene , Franz Seitz senior , Lupu Pick , Rudolf Meinert and Ernst Reicher were also involved. The directors of some films are also unknown. Stuart Webbs was a gentlemanly detective modeled on Sherlock Holmesthat solved even the most difficult cases smartly and elegantly. This fictional character was popular with German cinema audiences throughout the First World War. Webbs adventures were shot regularly until 1921, and since then the individual episodes of the series, now produced by Emelka , also based in Munich , have been made at irregular intervals. In 1926 a remake of Das Panzergewölbe was made , again with Reicher in the title role. It was to be his last assignment as the smart detective. Two latecomers were the late silent films The Green Monocle with Ralph Clancy and Masken with Karl Ludwig Diehl as Webbs in 1929 .

On the genesis of the series, Oskar Kalbus wrote in 1935: “In 1913, director Joe May made a film in which a number of aspiring actors were employed. One of them was named Ernst Reicher. Reicher, who had studied the Whitechapel crime district in England and there had met a criminalist whose acumen he had to admire again and again, suggested one day that we film an adventure by that private detective. He named the hero of the film Stuart Webbs, and so the first detective film "The Mysterious Villa" came about. What nobody expected happened. This film made the biggest business ever imagined. Everywhere he appeared, at home and abroad, audiences stood in line at the box offices of cinemas. It didn't take long for the second Stuart Webbs film to be made, then the third, the fourth, the twentieth. Ernst Reicher probably made 40–50 films in which he was "Stuart Webbs", that amiable, chevaleresque, highly intellectual, well-trained detective who saw his most important task in the tireless service of justice. "

A similar film series was that with the protagonist Joe Jenkins , and there was also the film series about Holmes himself: Sherlock Holmes (film series, 1912) and Sherlock Holmes (film series, 1917) .

Movies

year serial number title Director actor
1914 I. The mysterious villa Joe May Ernst Reicher
1914 II. The man in the basement Joe May Ernst Reicher
1914 III. The haunted house of the professor Joe May Ernst Reicher
1914 - The armored vault Joe May Ernst Reicher
1915 V. The striped domino Adolf Gärtner Ernst Reicher
1915 VI. The dead awaken Adolf Gärtner Ernst Reicher
1915 - A man's shadow Ernst Reicher Ernst Reicher
1915 VII. The midnight ship Adolf Gärtner Ernst Reicher
1916 VIII. The letter opener Adolf Gärtner Ernst Reicher
1916 IX. The amateur Ernst Reicher Ernst Reicher
1916 X./XI. The cry for help Adolf Gärtner Ernst Reicher
1917 XI. The journey to the afterlife Adolf Gärtner Ernst Reicher
1916 XIII. Countess de Castro Adolf Gärtner Ernst Reicher
1916 XIII. The whip Adolf Gärtner Ernst Reicher
1917 XIV. The Senatorial Election unknown Ernst Reicher
1917 XV. The light signal unknown Ernst Reicher
1917 XVI. The pagoda Ernst Reicher Ernst Reicher
1917 XVII. The floating raft unknown Ernst Reicher
1917 XVIII. The death star unknown Ernst Reicher
1917 XIX. The diamond foundation Johannes Guter Ernst Reicher
1918 XX. The enigmatic look Johannes Guter Ernst Reicher
1918 XXI. The ghost hunt Johannes Guter Ernst Reicher
1918 XXII. The train marten Johannes Guter Ernst Reicher
1918 XXV./XXIII. The devil's waltz Johannes Guter Ernst Reicher
1918 XXIV. The bull of Saldanha Johannes Guter Ernst Reicher
1918 XXV. The deputy unknown Ernst Reicher
1918 - The mysterious letters unknown Ernst Reicher
1918 - The stolen model Max Obal Ernst Reicher
1919 XXVI. The whims of luck Ernst Reicher Ernst Reicher
1919 - The brothers of Saint Parasitus Max Obal Ernst Reicher
1919 - The castle on the slope unknown Ernst Reicher
1920 - The gray magpie unknown Ernst Reicher
1920 - The horror in the Ardon house Robert Wiene Fritz Greiner
1920 - The jump into the dark Ernst Reicher Ernst Reicher
1920 - George Bully and Stuart Webbs Max Obal Ernst Reicher
1921 - The rat hole Max Obal Ernst Reicher
1921 - Stuart Webb's experiences: The master detective in his adventures - Ernst Reicher
1923 - In the last moment Ernst Reicher Ernst Reicher
1924 - The pearls of Dr. Talmadge Max Obal Ernst Reicher
1924 - The Malaysian jonke Max Obal Ernst Reicher
1925 - The curse of the evil deed Max Obal Ernst Reicher
1925 - Mrs. Worrington's perfume Franz Seitz sr. Ernst Reicher
1925 - The shot in the pavilion Max Obal Ernst Reicher
1925 - The secret of an hour Max Obal Ernst Reicher
1926 - The armored vault Lupu pick Ernst Reicher
1929 - The green monocle Rudolf Meinert Ralph Clancy
1929 - Masks Rudolf Meinert Karl Ludwig Diehl

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Remarks

  1. ↑ The serial numbers come from the source. The numbering is unclear.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Oskar Kalbus: On the becoming of German film art. 1st part: The silent film . Berlin 1935, p. 38.