The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes

The man who was Sherlock Holmes is a comedic thriller by Austrian director Karl Hartl from the year 1937. The premiere was on 15 July 1937 in Berlin at the Ufa - Palast am Zoo.

Action

The unsuccessful Detectives Flynn and McPherson dress up as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson to finally be charged with money -making cases. They keep the night train to Brussels on the open road and are actually held account of their design for the famous detective and his partner. The supposed Holmes interrogated sham traveling in the train sisters Mary and Jane Berry. Your uncle has left them a fortune and they make the trip to the inheritance. Upon arrival you will "Sherlock Holmes", as his stay at the Palace is known, immediately transfer the investigation of a case: The exhibited in the city of Mauritius stamps were stolen and replaced with fakes.

The detectives can prove in a secret laboratory of the methods inherited from Mary Jane and the castle that her uncle was the stamp counterfeiters. The two girls are disappointed with the loss of their heritage. In a pawnshop, the investigators discover the whole counterfeiters gang, but get it even in death. They barricade themselves in a basement and are eventually rescued by the police.

The dizziness on flies and Flynn and McPherson are brought to justice are sometimes accused of having faked a false identity. Both defend himself with have always denied on request, to be Holmes and Watson. Arthur Conan Doyle, who has amused all the time the case was following, reveals himself in the courtroom, saying that Holmes and Watson are only fictional characters, so no real assumption of a false identity can be present. In addition, Flynn and McPherson have solved the case assigned to them, thus fulfilling its mission.

The genuine stamps appear again and the court proceeding is terminated. Flynn and McPherson make love to Mary and Jane Berry.

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Others

  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's appearance ( represented by Paul Bildt ) was allowed because of the opposition of his heirs at broadcast the film on television until the 1970s not be shown.
  • Famous are the title song and the hit " Yes, my Herr'n " which the detectives in the bathtub singing (Text by Richard Busch; melody by Hans Sommer ). In the film, the song is complemented by several spoken dialogue between Albers and Riihmann:
  • In the same year appeared in successful recording session, however, not Albers, but Riihmann begins with the singing.
  • The film was released on July 13, 1937 by the Nazi censors with an age restriction of 14 years, and received the title of " artistic merit ".

Edits

The composer Marc Schubring and the author Wolfgang Adenberg processed the material into a musical, which in the Dresden State Operetta premiered on January 23, 2009.

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