Die geheimnisvolle Villa (1914)

Original title

Stuart Webbs: Die geheimnisvolle Villa

Directed by

Joe May

Genre

drama film, silent film, crime film, thriller film

Country

Germany

Runtime

1h 12m

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A gentleman detective investigates a secret-filled villa. The film is silent and in black and white. It introduces a Sherlock Holmes style character named Stuart Webbs.

mysterioussuspensefulold-fashionedmelodramaticstoicshadowypaced

What happens

Die geheimnisvolle Villa (lit. 'The Secret-Filled Villa') is a 1914 silent German detective film directed by Joe May and starring Ernst Reicher. It is the first in the series starring the fictional gentleman detective Stuart Webbs, modelled on Sherlock Holmes. It also features Werner Krauss and May's wife Mia May and their daughter Eva May. It was made at Continental-Kunstfilm's studios at 123 Chausseestraße, Berlin, and premièred at the Union-Theater Kammerlichtspiele cinema (later the Tauentzien Palast). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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