''The Big Boss'' (german: Der große Chef) is a 1921 German silent

crime film Crime films, in the broadest sense, is a film genre inspired by and analogous to the crime fiction literary genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and its detection. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine ...

directed by

Max Obal Max Obal (born Max David Gotthelf Sroke; 4 September 1881 – 18 May 1949) was a German actor, singer, screenwriter, and film director. He co-directed the 1927 swashbuckler '' Rinaldo Rinaldini'' featuring Hans Albers.Grange p.251 Selected filmog ...

and starring Ernst Reicher as the detective

Stuart Webbs Stuart Webbs was a fictional detective who appeared in a series of German films and serials during the silent era. Webbs was one of a number of detectives with English-sounding names to appear in German cinema of the era. Like his contemporaries s ...

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* 1921 films Films of the Weimar Republic Films directed by Max Obal German silent feature films 1921 crime films German black-and-white films German crime films 1920s German films 1920s German-language films {{1920s-crime-film-stub