The Green Monocle (1929)
September 24, 1929Release Date
Plot.
Hans von Trass is a high-ranking German diplomat. When a top-secret document is stolen, his fiancée Christa Varell strangely accuses herself of the theft in a letter. Von Trass entrusts master detective Stuart Webbs with the mysterious case - but is the man he contacted really Webbs?
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Cast & Crew.
Ralph Clancy
Stuart Webbs
Betty Bird
Suzy Vernon
Gaston Modot
Livio Pavanelli
Rudolf Meinert
Director
Paul Hörbiger
Snyder
Guido Kreutzer
Novel
Details.
Release DateSeptember 24, 1929
Original NameDas Grüne Monokel
StatusReleased
Genres
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Wiki.
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