''The Blue Dragon'' (german: Der blaue Drachen) is a 1919 German

silent film A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue). Though silent films convey narrative and emotion visually, various plot elements (such as a setting or era) or key lines of dialogue may, when ...

directed by

Harry Piel Heinrich Piel (12 July 1892 – 27 March 1963), known professionally as Harry Piel, was a prolific German actor, film director, screenwriter, and film producer who was involved in over 150 films. Piel became a director in 1912, turning out such ...

.Thomas p. 119 It features the popular detective character

Joe Deebs Joe Deebs was a fictional detective who appeared in a series of German films and serials during the silent era. Along with Stuart Webbs and a number of other fictional cinema detective characters with Anglo-Saxon names, he was modeled on Arth ...

Cast

* Paul Bildt * Heinrich Schroth as Joe Deebs

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* 1919 films Films of the Weimar Republic Films directed by Harry Piel German silent feature films German black-and-white films 1910s German films {{1910s-Germany-film-stub