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1929 film

The Green Monocle

Directed by	Rudolf Meinert
Written by	Guido Kreutzer (novel) Curt J. Braun Bobby E. Lüthge
Produced by	Marcel Hellman
Starring	Ralph Clancy Betty Bird Suzy Vernon Gaston Modot
Cinematography	Willy Goldberger Curt Oertel
Music by	Hansheinrich Dransmann
Production company	Deutsche Lichtspiel-Syndikat
Distributed by	Deutsche Lichtspiel-Syndikat
Release date	24 September 1929 (1929-09-24)
Country	Germany
Languages	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.

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

v t e 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)

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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