The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes

1937 German film by Eduard von Borsody, Karl Hartl

Karl Hartl
Robert Adolf Stemmle

Produced byAlfred GrevenStarring

Hans Albers
Heinz Rühmann
Marieluise Claudius
Hansi Knoteck
Hilde Weissner
Siegfried Schürenberg
Paul Bildt

CinematographyFritz Arno WagnerEdited byGertrud Hinz-NischwitzMusic byHans Sommer

Production
company

UFA

Distributed byUFA

Release date

15 July 1937

Running time

112 minutesCountryGermanyLanguageGerman

The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes (German: Der Mann, der Sherlock Holmes war) is a 1937 German mystery comedy film directed by Karl Hartl and starring Hans Albers, Heinz Rühmann and Marieluise Claudius.

The film's sets were designed by the art director Otto Hunte and Willy Schiller. It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios in Berlin.

Plot

Detective Morris Flynn (Hans Albers) and his assistant Macky McMacpherson (Heinz Rühmann), masquerading as Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson, investigate two attractive sisters, Mary and Jane Berry, and the theft and forgery of valuable postage stamps.

Reception

Lexikon des Internationalen Films calls it a swinging, lively comedy. Albers and Rühmann have been two longtime major stars of German cinema and are still known for the main song in this movie, Jawoll, meine Herr'n.

Release

The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes was released on DVD on 24 March 2009.^[1]

Cast

Hans Albers as Morris Flint
Heinz Rühmann as Macky McPherson
Marieluise Claudius as Mary Berry
Hansi Knoteck as Jane Berry
Hilde Weissner as Madame Ganymare
Günther Ballier as Kriminalbeamter
Paul Bildt as Lachender Mann
Erich Dunskus as Chef der Kriminalpolizei
Angelo Ferrari as Gangster Fred im Expresszug
Lothar Geist as Erwin Wutzke
Aribert Grimmer as Kriminalbeamter
Harry Hardt as Freds Kumpel Billy
Clemens Hasse as Ganove Peter
Edwin Jürgensen as Prosecutor
Hans Junkermann as Exzellenz Vangon
Ernst Legal as Dieter Jean
Paul Schwed as Der lange Poll
F.W. Schröder-Schrom as Polizeidirektor
Willi Schur as Bahnbeamter
Théo Tony as Kriminalbeamter
Ernst Waldow as Hoteldetektiv
Erich Walter as Hoteldirektor
Heinz Wemper as Verwalter des Lombard-Hauses
Walter Werner as Dr. Balderin

References

^ "The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes : Overview". Allmovie. Retrieved 7 April 2009.

Bibliography

R. A. Stemmle: Der Mann, der Sherlock Holmes war. Roman nach dem gleichnamigen Film von R. A. Stemmle und Karl Hartl. Droemer Knaur, München / Zürich 1981, ISBN 3-426-00730-4
Michael Ross (Hrsg.): Sherlock Holmes in Film und Fernsehen. Ein Handbuch. Baskerville Bücher, Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-930932-03-2

External links

The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes at AllMovie
The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes at IMDb

Screen adaptations of Sherlock Holmes

Theatrical films

Silent

Sherlock Holmes Baffled (1900)
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; or, Held for Ransom (1905)
Sherlock Holmes in the Great Murder Mystery (1908)
Arsène Lupin contra Sherlock Holmes (1910)
Éclair film series (1912–1913)
Der Hund von Baskerville (1914)
Detektiv Braun (1914)
A Study in Scarlet (1914 British film)
A Study in Scarlet (1914 US film)
The Valley of Fear (1916)
Sherlock Holmes (1916)
Sherlock Holmes (1922)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1929)

Stoll series	The Dying Detective (1921) The Devil's Foot (1921) The Man with the Twisted Lip (1921) The Hound of the Baskervilles (1921) The Sign of Four (1923)

Wontner series

The Sleeping Cardinal (1931)
The Missing Rembrandt (1932)
The Sign of Four (1932)
The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes (1935)
Silver Blaze (1937)

Rathbone–Bruce
series

The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939)
Voice of Terror (1942)
Secret Weapon (1942)
Sherlock Holmes in Washington (1943)
Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943)
The Spider Woman (1943)
The Scarlet Claw (1944)
The Pearl of Death (1944)
The House of Fear (1945)
The Woman in Green (1945)
Pursuit to Algiers (1945)
Terror by Night (1946)
Dressed to Kill (1946)

Downey series

Sherlock Holmes (2009)
A Game of Shadows (2011)

Other films

The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1929)
The Limejuice Mystery (1930)
The Speckled Band (1931)
Lelíček ve službách Sherlocka Holmese (1932)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1932)
Sherlock Holmes (1932)
A Study in Scarlet (1933)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1937)
The Grey Lady (1937)
The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes (1937)
Deduce, You Say! (1956)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)
The Deadly Necklace (1962)
A Study in Terror (1965)
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970)
They Might Be Giants (1971)
The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother (1975)
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1978)
Murder by Decree (1979)
The Case of Marcel Duchamp (1984)
Young Sherlock Holmes (1985)
The Great Mouse Detective (1986)
Without a Clue (1988)
Zero Effect (1998)
A Samba for Sherlock (2001)
Case Closed: The Phantom of Baker Street (2002)
Holmes & Watson. Madrid Days (2012)
Mr. Holmes (2015)
The Empire of Corpses (2015)
Sherlock Gnomes (2018)
Holmes & Watson (2018)
Sherlock Holmes and the Great Escape (2019)

Television/
streaming/
direct-to-video

Films

Ian Richardson	The Sign of Four (1983) The Hound of the Baskervilles (1983)
Peter O'Toole (animated)	Sherlock Holmes and a Study in Scarlet (1983) Sherlock Holmes and the Baskerville Curse (1983) Sherlock Holmes and the Sign of Four (1983) Sherlock Holmes and the Valley of Fear (1983)
Vasily Livanov series	Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson (1979) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson (1980) The Hound of the Baskervilles (1981) The Treasures of Agra (1983) The Twentieth Century Approaches (1986)
Christopher Lee	The Leading Lady (1991) Incident at Victoria Falls (1992)
Matt Frewer	The Hound of the Baskervilles (2000) The Sign of Four (2001) The Royal Scandal (2001) The Case of the Whitechapel Vampire (2002)
Ian Hart (as Watson)	The Hound of the Baskervilles (2002) The Case of the Silk Stocking (2004)
Other films	The Three Garridebs (1937) The Man Who Disappeared (1951) The Hound of the Baskervilles (1972) The Longing of Sherlock Holmes (1972) Doctor Watson and the Darkwater Hall Mystery (1974) The Return of the World's Greatest Detective (1976) Sherlock Holmes in New York (1976) Silver Blaze (1977) The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It (1977) The Hound of the Baskervilles (1982) The Masks of Death (1984) The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1987) Hands of a Murderer (1990) The Crucifer of Blood (1991) 1994 Baker Street: Sherlock Holmes Returns (1993) The Hound of London (1993) Sherlock: Case of Evil (2002) Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars (2007) Sherlock Holmes (2010) Tom and Jerry Meet Sherlock Holmes (2010)

Television series

Sherlock Holmes (1951)
Sherlock Holmes (1954)
Sherlock Holmes (1965–1968)
Sherlock Holmes (1967–1968)
Sherlock Holmes (1968)
Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson (1979–1980)
Young Sherlock: The Mystery of the Manor House (1982)
The Baker Street Boys (1983)
Sherlock Hound (1984–1985)
Sherlock Holmes (1984–1994)
- episodes
The Adventures of Shirley Holmes (1997–2000)
Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century (1999–2001)
Sherlock (2010–2017)
Tantei Opera Milky Holmes (2010–2016)
Aria the Scarlet Ammo (2011)
Elementary (2012–2019)
Sherlock Holmes (2013)
Sherlock Holmes (2014–2015)
Miss Sherlock (2018)
Sherlock: Untold Stories (2019)
Case File nº221: Kabukicho (2019–2020)
Moriarty the Patriot (2020–2021)
Sherlock in Russia (2020)
The Irregulars (2021)

Actors by role

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The films of Karl Hartl