The Man with the Missing Finger
About The Man with the Missing Finger
Police chief Sylvester Jackson and his assistant George Warren hunt John Smith, the man with nine fingers, and the helper who works with Smith.
Cast & crew
More about The Man with the Missing Finger
A. W. Sandberg directed. Hans Holten wrote it. Einar Olsen photographed it. Axel Bruun designed it. Nordisk negative 1300. Fotorama released it in Denmark on 27 September 1915 at the Kosmorama in Copenhagen and the Vesterbro Teater. The print is 950 meters. A timed copy runs 28 minutes. This is the first of the nine-finger films.
Themes
Making
Sandberg and Holten made it as a Nordisk crime short, the first chapter, with Hertel as the nine-fingered man and Blütecher as the chief hunting him.
Look
Einar Olsen photographed the 950-meter silent negative.
Preservation
A 28-minute print survives. A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- Alf Blütecher plays Sylvester Jackson. Birger von Cotta-Schønberg plays George Warren. Aage Hertel plays John Smith. Franz Skondrup plays Smith's helper.
- Ingeborg Bruhn Bertelsen and Doris Langkilde are also billed.
- The Danish title is Manden med de ni Fingre I. An English listing calls it The Missing Finger.
- The premiere houses were the Kosmorama and the Vesterbro Teater.
- The screenplay is held at the Cinematheque library, Gothersgade 55, Copenhagen.
Scenes
- Jackson and Warren set out after John Smith, identified by the missing finger.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Manden med de ni Fingre I (1915).webm)
- Danish Film Institute
