The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes

The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes
German poster for The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes
Directed by	Karl Hartl
Written by	Karl Hartl Robert Adolf Stemmle
Produced by	Alfred Greven
Starring	Hans Albers Heinz Rühmann Marieluise Claudius Hansi Knoteck Hilde Weissner Siegfried Schürenberg Paul Bildt
Cinematography	Fritz Arno Wagner
Edited by	Gertrud Hinz-Nischwitz
Music by	Hans Sommer
Production company	UFA
Distributed by	UFA
Release date	15 July 1937 (1937-07-15)
Running time	112 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	German

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.

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.

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

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

• 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

• The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes at IMDb