Stuart Webbs
Stuart Webb was a crime series producers Joe May ( until 1914 ) and Ernst Reicher, created between autumn 1913 and autumn 1929.
History
The role of the Stuart Webbs played Ernst Reicher and once each Fritz Greiner, Ralph Clancy and Karl Ludwig Diehl. Directed by Joe May itself, but also the directors Adolf Gärtner, John Good, Max Obal, Robert Wiene, Franz Seitz Sr., Lupu Pick, Rudolf Meinert and Ernst Reicher themselves were involved. Some films, the directors also are unknown. Stuart Webb was a gentleman - detective, following the example of Sherlock Holmes, who sparked smart and elegant even the most difficult cases. Throughout the First World War, this fictional character was popular with German audiences. By 1921, Webb's adventure were rotated regularly, since the individual episodes of the series, now also produced by the Munich -based Emelka, irregularly formed. In 1926, a remake of the tank vault, again with Rich in the title role, produced. It should be the last use as the smart detective. Two stragglers were 1929, the late silent film The green monocle with Ralph Clancy and masks with Karl Ludwig Diehl each as Webbs.
At the genesis of the series Oskar Kalbus wrote in 1935: " In 1913, the director Joe May directed a film in which a number of aspiring actor was busy. One of them was Ernst Reicher. Rich, who had studied the criminal district of Whitechapel in England and there met a criminologist whose acumen he had to admire again and again, suggested one day to film an adventure that Privatdetektives. He named the hero of the film Stuart Webbs, and thus the first detective film " The mysterious Villa " was born. What no one expected a hit. This film made the largest ever business that you could think of. Wherever he appeared, at home and abroad, the audience stood at the cash registers of Lichtspieltheater snake. It was not long, the second Stuart Webbs movie was filmed, then the third, the fourth, the twentieth. Ernst Reicher has probably turned to 40-50 films in which he " Stuart Webb ," was that gracious, chivalrous, highly intellectual, athletic -trained detective who saw its most significant task in tireless service to the justice. "
A similar film series was the one with the star, Joe Jenkins, also there was the film series on Holmes himself: Sherlock Holmes (film series, 1912) and Sherlock Holmes (film series, 1917).