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The Grey Magpie (1920)

The Grey Magpie poster
Directed by
Max Obal
Genre
silent film
Country
Germany
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A detective named Stuart Webbs tries to solve a mystery. The film is a silent movie from Germany in 1920.

mysterioussuspensefuldatedquietintriguingold-fashionedslow-paced

What happens

The Grey Magpie (German: Die graue Elster) is a 1920 German silent mystery film directed by Max Obal and starring Ernst Reicher as the detective Stuart Webbs, part of a long-running series featuring the character. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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