The Confidence Trick

1910 CrimeDrama 13 minutes

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About The Confidence Trick

Jens Larsen, rich from work in America, comes home to Denmark and finds everyone unusually helpful. The welcome is a confidence trick aimed at his money.

Cast & crew

More about The Confidence Trick

Nordisk negative 686. The Danish Film Institute does not name a director, and it lists the print as 266 meters, 35mm, black and white, and silent. The Danish title is Sherlock Holmes i Bondefangerklør.

Themes

  • A rich man home from America
  • A welcome that is a trap
  • Holmes and a stolen wallet
  • Jens Larsen
  • Sherlock Holmes
  • Otto Lagoni
  • confidence trick
  • Nordisk
  • wallet

Making

Nordisk cast Otto Lagoni as Sherlock Holmes. An alternate title, Den stjaalne Tegnebog, means The Stolen Wallet.

Preservation

The Danish Film Institute holds program material and lists a 266-meter print.

Notes

  • Otto Lagoni plays Sherlock Holmes.
  • Also billed: Ellen Kornbeck, Axel Boesen, Ella la Cour, Rigmor Jerichau, Victor Fabian, and Ingeborg Rasmussen.
  • German release title: Sherlock Holmes und die Bauernfänger.
  • English title: The Confidence Trick.
  • It belongs to Nordisk's Holmes series of 1908–1911.

Scenes

  • Larsen arrives in Denmark and is met with too much help.
  • The scheme closes on his money.

Influenced by

  • Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle)