Eva Tinschmann appeared in what movie based off a book by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle?
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Eva Tinschmann Eva Tinschmann (April 19 1893 – August 10, 1978) was a German actress. She appeared in the 1937 Sherlock Holmes film "The Grey Lady".
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Sherlock Holmes Sherlock Holmes ( ) is a fictional private detective created by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Known as a "consulting detective" in the stories, Holmes is known for his proficiency with observation, forensic science, and logical reasoning that borders on the fantastic, which he employs when investigating cases for a wide variety of clients, including Scotland Yard.
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The Tragedy of the Korosko The Tragedy of the Korosko (1898) is a novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It was serialized a year earlier in "The Strand" magazine between May and December 1897. It was later adapted into a play "Fires of Fate" by Doyle. The play was in turn twice adapted into film, a 1923 silent film and a 1932 talkie.
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The Frog The Frog is a 1937 British crime film directed by Jack Raymond and starring Noah Beery, Jack Hawkins and Richard Ainley. The film is about the police chasing a criminal mastermind who goes by the name of The Frog. It was based on a novel by Edgar Wallace. It was followed by a loose sequel "The Return of the Frog", the following year.
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The Return of Sherlock Holmes The Return of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of 13 Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1903-1904, by Arthur Conan Doyle. The stories were published in the "Strand Magazine" in Great Britain, and "Collier's" in the United States.
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On Thin Ice (film) On Thin Ice is a 1933 British crime film directed by Bernard Vorhaus and starring Ursula Jeans, Kenneth Law and Dorothy Bartlam.
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Fire and Sword Fire and Sword ("Feuer und Schwert – Die Legende von Tristan und Isolde") is a 1982 German romance/adventure film, directed by . It is based on the legend of Tristan and Iseult.
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Emil and the Detectives (2001 film) Emil and the Detectives is a 2001 German family film directed by Franziska Buch and starring Tobias Retzlaff, Anja Sommavilla and Jürgen Vogel. It is based on a novel by Erich Kästner.
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A Study in Scarlet A Study in Scarlet is an 1887 detective novel by British author Arthur Conan Doyle. Written in 1886, the story marks the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, who would become two of the most famous characters in popular fiction. The book's title derives from a speech given by Holmes, an amateur detective, to his friend and chronicler Watson on the nature of his work, in which he describes the story's murder investigation as his "study in scarlet": "There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it."
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Die Feuerzangenbowle Die Feuerzangenbowle ("The Fire Tongs Bowl", "The Punch Bowl") is a German novel, later adapted into several films, which tells the story of a famous writer going undercover as a pupil at a small town gymnasium after his friends tell him that he missed out on the best part of growing up by being educated at home. The story in the book takes place during the Weimar Republic in Germany. The novel by Heinrich Spoerl was published in 1933 and was adapted to film three times. The 1944 movie of the same name directed by Helmut Weiss is the most notable adaptation of the material. This German comedy classic was one of the last big movie productions in Germany before the end of the Nazi era and has gained cult status at German universities since the 1980s.
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Phoenix (2014 film) Phoenix is a 2014 German drama film directed by Christian Petzold. Loosely adapted from the 1961 novel "Le Retour des Cendres" (English: "The Return from the Ashes") by French author Hubert Monteilhet, the film stars Nina Hoss and Ronald Zehrfeld as Nelly and Johnny Lenz respectively.
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The Dark Eyes of London (film) The Dark Eyes of London is a 1939 British horror film directed by Walter Summers, starring Béla Lugosi and Greta Gynt. The film is an adaptation of the 1924 novel of the same name by Edgar Wallace. The film is about a scientist named Dr. Orloff who commits a series of murders for insurance money, while periodically disguising himself as the blind manager of a charity to further his scheme.
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Toni (1928 film) Toni is a 1928 British thriller film directed by Arthur Maude and starring Jack Buchanan, Dorothy Boyd and Forrester Harvey. It was made at Elstree Studios by British International Pictures and based on a play by Dion Titheradge.
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Conan the Destroyer Conan the Destroyer is a 1984 American sword and sorcery/adventure film directed by Richard Fleischer, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Mako Iwamatsu reprising their roles as Conan and Akiro the wizard, respectively. The cast also includes Grace Jones, Wilt Chamberlain, Tracey Walter and Olivia d'Abo. It is the sequel to "Conan the Barbarian". The film was moderately successful at the box office in the U.S., and very successful internationally, although critical response was not as strong as for the original film.
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The Witches of Eastwick (film) The Witches of Eastwick is a 1987 American comedy-fantasy film based on John Updike's novel "The Witches of Eastwick". Directed by George Miller, the film stars Jack Nicholson as Daryl Van Horne, alongside Cher, Michelle Pfeiffer and Susan Sarandon as the eponymous witches.
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Skeletons at the Feast Skeletons at the Feast is a novel by author Chris Bohjalian, published in 2008. It is the story of a journey in the waning months of World War II concerning the Emmerich family, who flee their beloved home in Prussia and move west to avoid the advancing Russian troops. The family consists of one of the novel's main protagonists, Anna; her mother, known affectionately as "Mutti"; her father, Rolf; her twin brother, Helmut; her younger brother, Theo; and the Scottish POW that once worked on the family's farm, Callum Finella, who becomes Anna's lover. Anna also has an older brother, Werner, who is off fighting in the war. Rolf and Helmut leave the family to aid in stopping the Russian advance and the rest continue on alone; on their westward journey they are joined by Uri Singer, an escaped Jew posing as a Nazi officer. Bohjalian said in an interview he was inspired to write the story after being persuaded to read a diary spanning from 1920 to 1945 belonging to Eva Henatsch, a German woman that embarked on a similar journey west across the Third Reich.
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Nelly's Version Nelly's Version is a 1983 British mystery film directed by Maurice Hatton and starring Eileen Atkins, Anthony Bate and Nicholas Ball. It was based on a novel by Eva Figes. The screenplay concerns a woman who turns up a hotel having lost her memory and forgotten who she is.
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The Red Baron (2008 film) The Red Baron (aka Der rote Baron (original title)) is a 2008 German-British biographical action war film written and directed by Nikolai Müllerschön about the World War I fighter pilot Manfred von Richthofen, known as the "Red Baron". The film stars Matthias Schweighöfer, Joseph Fiennes, Til Schweiger and Lena Headey. "The Red Baron" was filmed entirely in English to improve its international commercial viability.
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Sherlock Holmes (1932 film) Sherlock Holmes is a 1932 American Pre-Code film starring Clive Brook as the eponymous London detective. The movie is based on the successful stage play "Sherlock Holmes" by William Gillette, in turn based on the stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, and is directed by William K. Howard for the Fox Film Corporation. Brook had played Holmes three years previously in "The Return of Sherlock Holmes".
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Helter Skelter (1976 film) Helter Skelter is a 1976 television film based on the 1974 book by prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry. In the United States, it aired over two nights. In some countries it was shown in theaters with additional footage (nudity, language and more violence).
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Under Capricorn Under Capricorn is a 1949 British historical thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock about a couple in Australia who started out as lady and stable boy in Ireland, and who are now bound together by a horrible secret. The film was based on the novel "Under Capricorn" (1937) by Helen Simpson, with a screenplay by James Bridie. It was adapted to the screen by Hume Cronyn. This was Hitchcock's second film in Technicolor, and like the preceding color film "Rope" (1948), it also featured 10-minute takes.
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Madame Wants No Children Madame Wants No Children (German: "Madame wünscht keine Kinder" ) is a 1926 German silent drama film directed by Alexander Korda and starring María Corda, Harry Liedtke and Maria Paudler. It is based on the novel "Madame ne veut pas d'enfants" by the French writer Clément Vautel. The film was made for the American Fox Film Corporation's German subsidiary. The film was shot at Tempelhof Studios in late 1926. It was the last film European film Korda made until 1930 as he left for the United States shortly after its production (although an earlier film, "A Modern Dubarry", premiered later).