The niece of a prying clerk, who fancies himself a great investigator, plots with her boyfriend to trick the uncle into locating a supposed kidnapped heiress, this premise set against Bavaria locales, with music, dancing, and slapstick..
Should you watch The Master Detective tonight? Honestly, probably not unless you have a deep, slightly worrying obsession with 1930s German regional comedies. It is a very loud, very Bavarian slapstick movie that will make modern audiences either laugh at the sheer absurdity of it or turn it off after ten minutes of y...
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"Should you watch The Master Detective tonight? Honestly, probably not unless you have a deep, slightly worrying obsession with 1930s German regional comedies. It is a very loud, very Bavarian slapstick movie that will make modern audiences either laugh at the sheer absurdity of it or turn it off after ten minutes of yodeling. If you enjoy old-school, silly chaos like Innocent Husbands, you might find some charm here. Otherwise, it might just give you a headache. 🪕 The plot is pretty thin, to ..."
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