The Green Monocle
1929 film
- Guido Kreutzer (novel)
- Curt J. Braun
- Bobby E. Lüthge
- Ralph Clancy
- Betty Bird
- Suzy Vernon
- Gaston Modot
- Willy Goldberger
- Curt Oertel
Production
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Deutsche Lichtspiel-Syndikat
Release date
- 24 September 1929 (1929-09-24)
- Silent
- German intertitles
The Green Monocle (German: Das grüne Monokel) is a 1929 German silent crime film directed by Rudolf Meinert and starring Ralph Clancy, Betty Bird and Suzy Vernon. The film was based on a novel by Guido Kreutzer. It features the fictional detective Stuart Webbs, one of several German fictional characters inspired by Sherlock Holmes, who had appeared in a series of silent films during the 1910s and 1920s.[1]
It was shot at the Tempelhof Studios in Berlin with location shooting in Berlin, Hamburg, Frankfurt am Main as well as Basel and Montreux in Switzerland. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Robert Neppach and Erwin Scharf
Cast
- Ralph Clancy as Stuart Webbs
- Betty Bird as Christa Varell
- Suzy Vernon as Inez Rion
- Gaston Modot as McCornick
- Livio Pavanelli as Miller
- Paul Hörbiger as Snyder
- Alfred Döderlein as Hans von Traß
- Ferdinand Hart as Bruce
- Arnold Korff as Dr. Heinzius
References
- ^ Prawer p.88
Bibliography
- Prawer, S.S. Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933. Berghahn Books, 2007.
External links
- The Green Monocle at IMDb
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The films of Rudolf Meinert
- Detektiv Braun (1914)
- Der Hund von Baskerville (1914)
- Vengeance Is Mine (1916)
- Ferdinand Lassalle (1918)
- The Toy of the Tsarina (1919)
- The Monastery of Sendomir (1919)
- Marie Antoinette, the Love of a King (1922)
- Rosenmontag (1924)
- Dudu, a Human Destiny (1924)
- The Red Mouse (1926)
- The Eleven Schill Officers (1926)
- The Vice of Humanity (1927)
- The Convicted (1927)
- The Case of Prosecutor M (1928)
- The White Roses of Ravensberg (1929)
- The Green Monocle (1929)
- Masks (1929)
- The Song of the Nations (1931)
- The Eleven Schill Officers (1932)
- Het Meisje met de Blauwe Hoed (1934)
- De Vier Mullers (1935)
- Everything for the Company (1935)
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