{{Short description|1944 film}} {{For|the earlier film|The Master Detective (1933 film)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2021}} {{Infobox film |name = The Master Detective |image = The Master Detective.jpg |caption = German DVD cover |native_name = {{Infobox name module|de|Der Meisterdetektiv}} |director = [[Hubert Marischka]] |producer = Friedrich Wilhelm Gaik |writer = Kurt E. Walter<br>Felix von Eckardt |starring = [[Rudolf Platte]] |music = [[Frank Fox (composer)|Frank Fox]] |cinematography = [[Otto Baecker]]<br>[[Walter Pindter]] |editing = [[Margarete Steinborn]] |studio = Berlin-Film |distributor = Deutsche Filmvertriebs |released = {{Film date|1944|7|10|df=yes}} |runtime = 74 minutes |country = Germany |language = German }} '''''The Master Detective''''' ({{langx|de|'''Der Meisterdetektiv'''}}) is a 1944 German [[comedy film]] directed by [[Hubert Marischka]] and starring [[Rudolf Platte]] who plays a [[private detective]].<ref>{{cite book|editor-first1=Hans-Michael|editor-last1=Bock|editor-link1=Hans-Michael Bock|editor-first2=Tim|editor-last2=Bergfelder|title=The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema|publisher=[[Berghahn Books]]|page=367|year=2009|location=New York|isbn=978-1-57181-655-9}}</ref> The film's sets were designed by the [[art director]]s [[Gustav A. Knauer]] and [[Arthur Schwarz]].
==Cast== <small>In alphabetical order</small> *[[Georg Alexander]] as Rittmeister a. D. Hans-Heinz Langendorff *[[Hermann Brix]] as Neffe Helmut Langendorff *[[Will Dohm]] as Diener Balduin *[[Fritz Kampers]] as Nachbar Eberhard Matthesius *[[Dorit Kreysler]] as Ballett-Tänzerin Ilse Braun *[[Rudolf Platte]] as Privatdetektiv Bruch *[[Erich Ponto]] as Gutsbesitzer Theobald Langendorff *[[Charlotte Schultz (actress)|Charlotte Schultz]] as Gesellschafterin Agathe *[[Grethe Weiser]] as Julia Langendorff
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{IMDb title|0037064}}
{{Hubert Marischka}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Master Detective, The}} [[Category:1944 comedy films]] [[Category:Films of Nazi Germany]] [[Category:German comedy films]] [[Category:Films directed by Hubert Marischka]] [[Category:German black-and-white films]] [[Category:1944 German films]] {{1940s-Germany-film-stub}}