The Green Monocle

The Green Monocle
Directed by	Rudolf Meinert
Written by	Guido Kreutzer (novel) Curt J. Braun Bobby E. Lüthge
Produced by	Marcel Hellman
Starring	Ralph Clancy Betty Bird Suzy Vernon Gaston Modot
Cinematography	Willy Goldberger Curt Oertel
Music by	Hansheinrich Dransmann
Production company	Deutsche Lichtspiel-Syndikat
Distributed by	Deutsche Lichtspiel-Syndikat
Release date	24 September 1929 (1929-09-24)
Country	Germany
Languages	Silent German intertitles

The Green Monocle (German: Das grüne Monokel) is a 1929 German silent crime film directed by Rudolf Meinert and starring Ralph Clancy, Betty Bird and Suzy Vernon. The film was based on a novel by Guido Kreutzer. It features the fictional detective Stuart Webbs, one of several German fictional characters inspired by Sherlock Holmes, who had appeared in a series of silent films during the 1910s and 1920s.^[1]

It was shot at the Tempelhof Studios in Berlin with location shooting in Berlin, Hamburg, Frankfurt am Main as well as Basel and Montreux in Switzerland. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Robert Neppach and Erwin Scharf

• Ralph Clancy as Stuart Webbs
• Betty Bird as Christa Varell
• Suzy Vernon as Inez Rion
• Gaston Modot as McCornick
• Livio Pavanelli as Miller
• Paul Hörbiger as Snyder
• Alfred Döderlein as Hans von Traß
• Ferdinand Hart as Bruce
• Arnold Korff as Dr. Heinzius

• Prawer, S.S. Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933. Berghahn Books, 2007.

• The Green Monocle at IMDb

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