''The Secret of One Hour'' () is a 1926 German silent

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directed by Max Obal and starring Ernst Reicher,

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.Rainey p.230 It is part of the series of films portraying the

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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 ...

. It was shot at the Emelka Studios in Munich.

Cast

* Ernst Reicher as Stuart Webbs *

as Geraldine Kreagh *

as Ethel - Geraldines Schwester * Hermann Nesselträger as Winston Horward * Gustav Ingo-Schröter *

Otto Kronburger Otto is a masculine German given name and a surname. It originates as an Old High German short form (variants ''Audo'', '' Odo'', ''Udo'') of Germanic names beginning in ''aud-'', an element meaning "wealth, prosperity". The name is recorded f ...

* Hermann Pfanz as Polizeikommisar * Ferdinand Martini as John * Klara Ney *

Manfred Koempel-Pilot Manfred Koempel-Pilot (1895–1944) was a German stage and film actor. He is also sometimes credited as André Pilot. Before the outbreak of World War I, Franz Kömpel trained as an operetta tenor at the Berlin Academy of Music. After serving on ...

References

Bibliography

* Rainey, Buck. ''Serials and Series: A World Filmography, 1912-1956''. McFarland, 2015.

External links

* 1926 films Films of the Weimar Republic Films directed by Max Obal German silent feature films 1926 crime films German black-and-white films German crime films Films shot at Bavaria Studios Bavaria Film films 1920s German films {{1920s-crime-film-stub