The Onyx Head

{{Short description|1917 film}}

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{{Infobox film

|name = The Onyx Head

|image = The Onyx Head.jpg

|caption = Max Landa and Leopoldine Konstantin

|native_name = {{Infobox name module|de|Der Onyxknopf}}

|director = Joe May

|producer = Joe May

|writer = Ewald André Dupont
Joe May

|starring = {{ubl|Max Landa|Bruno Kastner|Leopoldine Konstantin}}

|cinematography = Curt Courant

|studio = May-Film

|released = {{Film date|1917|9|28|df=yes}}

|runtime =

|country = Germany

|language = Silent
German intertitles

}}

The Onyx Head (German: Der Onyxknopf) is a 1917 German silent crime film directed by Joe May and starring Max Landa, Bruno Kastner and Leopoldine Konstantin.{{cite book|last1=Bergfelder|first1=Tim|last2=Cargnelli|first2=Christian|title=Destination London: German-speaking Emigres and British Cinema, 1925–1950|publisher=Berghahn Books|series=Film Europa|year=2008|page=27|isbn=1845455320|jstor=j.ctt9qd9x1}} It was part of a series of Joe Deebs detective films.

The film's sets were designed by the art director Uwe Jens Krafft.