Masks (1929 film)

Masks is a 1929 filmed by Rudolf Meinert silent film, also the last detective film of the German film series " Stuart Webbs ". In the role of smart detective Karl Ludwig Diehl is seen.

Action

As Stuart Webb is momentarily at his club, he witnesses a robbery perpetrated by armed men in tails. The offender escapes undetected. Webb, however, knows who he is. This is because once the bank robbery unjustly convicted Jonny Stoll, who has broken out recently out of prison. Stoll's real plan is to take revenge on the true perpetrators of the bank robbery, a certain Breitkopf, and the banker Clifford, who had then accused him wrongly in court. The next day, Clifford gets a visit from a certain professor Doux, an older gentleman who wishes to buy oil stocks. A little later, the banker is bound and gagged in his office. Then emerges once a much younger foreigners in the bank on which in turn wants to sell oil shares. If it is for both men to Stoll?

As Webb wants to audition at Clifford, he finds the banker again before gagged and tied up. Webb's attempts to these mysterious events, of which he suspects that this must be related to Stoll, get to the bottom. In the masquerade of a Chinese Webb goes into the pint of the innkeeper Pitt, where Jonny Stoll has moved into a small attic room with his girlfriend Goldelse. Suddenly, the police shows up and leads a raid by. To note the "Chinese" ( Webb ) is deposited, then discharged all present. Webb, awakens from his feigned fainting again, uses the opportunity to visit Stoll's shelter. Finally he helps the broken to escape, because he firmly believes in Jonny's innocence. Shortly afterwards, the police returns. With the help of Clifford's fiance Elynor the true perpetrators Breitkopf can be arrested.

Production Notes

The film was shot, the last Stuart Webb film in the fall of 1929 in the Berlin Grunewald studio. On December 18, 1929 happened masks film censorship and was premiered on 4 March 1930 Titania-Palast.

Webbs actor Diehl, who was to have in the early talkie years for his breakthrough screen star, here was his first starring role.

Hermann Warm was responsible for the Filmbauten. The design for the Schüfftan method came from the hand of Fritz Maurischat.

From masks, a sound film version with music and sound was made. The performance of this German manufactured by a company in Paris version is not dated; in Austria this version was launched in Vienna on 29 July 1930.

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