The ghost of a hanged man returns to fulfill his promise. All of his accusers must die!
Production
Shadow-drenched estates that scream 'someone's about to get strangled.'
Acting
Eddi Arent's nervous comic relief steals every scene he's barely in.
Director
Harald Reinl
Joachim Fuchsberger
Inspektor Blacky Long
Karin Dor
Nora Sanders
Elisabeth Flickenschildt
Mrs. Shelton Ravelstoke
Karl-Georg Saebisch
Monkford
Eddi Arent
Anthony Edwards
Ernst Fritz Fürbringer
Sir Archibald
Fritz Rasp
Lord Godley Long
Dieter Eppler
Jackson Shelton
Ulrich Beiger
Henry Shelton
Karin Kernke
Ruth Lester aka Alice Cravel
Alf Marholm
Richard Shelton aka Richard Cravel
Otto Collin
Clay Shelton
Josef Dahmen
Henker
Peter Frank
Richter Bennett
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was the sixth Edgar Wallace adaptation Reinl directed in just three years—West Germany was absolutely addicted to British crime.
The 'krimi' craze made German audiences obsessed with foggy London they never visited, shot entirely in Hamburg studios with imported British character names.
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