The Onyx Head (1917)
- Directed by
- Hans Oberländer, Joe May
- Genre
- silent film, crime film
- Country
- German Empire, Germany
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A detective named Joe Deebs investigates a crime involving a valuable onyx button. The story follows clues and suspects in a classic whodunit style from the silent era.
mysterioussuspensefulold-fashionedcerebralrestraineddatedpuzzlingnoir-adjacent
What happens
The Onyx Head (German: Der Onyxknopf) is a 1917 German silent crime film directed by Joe May and starring Max Landa, Bruno Kastner and Leopoldine Konstantin. It was part of a series of Joe Deebs detective films. The film's sets were designed by the art director Uwe Jens Krafft. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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