His Greatest Bluff
- Harry Piel: Henry Devall / Harry Devall, twin brothers
- Lotte Lorring: Tilly Andersson
- Toni Tetzlaff: her mother
- Albert Paulig: Mimicry
- Fritz Greiner: Hennessy
- Charly Berger: " Count coke "
- Boris Mikhailov: Sherry
- Marlene Dietrich: Yvette
- Paul Walker: "Goliath", a dwarf
- Kurt Gerron: Rajah of Johore
- Eugen Burg: Police Prefect
- Ossip Darmatow: " Count Apollinaris "
- Vicky Werckmeister: Suzanne
- Wolfgang von Schwind: a crook
- Karl Harbacher:
His biggest bluff is a German film sensation by and with Harry Piel, who plays a double role, from the year 1927.
Action
Harry and Henry Devall are twin brothers. Henry, Harry only half an hour apart in time, works as a manager for the owner of a jewelry store, Mrs. Andersson. This commissioned him one day to convict diamond jewelery to Nice and a major customer, the Rajah of Johore handed. On the way there the precious jewelry stolen. Harry, who has just returned from America, rushes to his brother immediately for help, and they both go to Nice to recover the jewels. Surprising the culprit is traced: it is a lady of the demimonde named Yvette, who had fished with her long fingers the jewelry from Henry's pocket.
The Devall brothers can catch them when they offer on their own the diamonds the Indian Maharaja for purchase. But this little lady is far from the only one who had it apart on the jewelry; a whole bunch of rogues are now trying to Harry and Henry wangle the jewelry. Even the Indian prince is not real. But the two identical twins use their uncanny resemblance to deceive the gangster with a simple trick. After much back and forth it comes on a dilapidated farm between Nice and Monte Carlo showdown. The piloted there crooks can all be done by the police arrest. The jewelry is now finally back in the right hands, and receives wages Henry the hand of the daughter of his boss, Tilly Andersson.
Production Notes
His biggest bluff was from April to early May 1927 in Berlin- Staaken. The film happened zehnaktige film censorship on 5 May 1927, was premiered in Berlin Alhambra Palace, exactly one week later.
The young Marlene Dietrich was already here, just three years before The Blue Angel, occupied according to their later often served type of role as a femme fatale and demi-mondaine.
The Filmbauten submitted by Willi A. Herrmann, Walter Zeiske was one of the manager. Edmund Heuberger here served as an assistant director. The intertitles are from Dr. Herbert Nossen.