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.[1]

The Green Monocle
Directed byRudolf Meinert
Written by
Produced byMarcel Hellman
Starring
Cinematography
Music byHansheinrich Dransmann
Production
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Distributed byDeutsche Lichtspiel-Syndikat
Release date
  • 24 September 1929 (1929-09-24)
CountryGermany
Languages

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

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References

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  1. ^ Prawer p.88

Bibliography

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  • Prawer, S.S. Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933. Berghahn Books, 2007.
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