When a wealthy man dies, his avaricious relatives look forward to inheriting all his money. However, he leaves a provision in his will that they all must spend a week together in his castle before they will be able to inherit anything. At the castle (which is cut off from the outside world), the relatives soon begin to be killed off one by one, each strangled with an Indian scarf.
Acting
Kinski's unhinged eye-acting steals every frame.
Production
Castle sets so extra they deserve their own inheritance.
Director
Alfred Vohrer
Heinz Drache
Frank Tanner
Corny Collins
Isla Harris
Klaus Kinski
Peter Ross
Gisela Uhlen
Mrs. Tilling, geb. Lebanon
Hans Nielsen
Mr. Tilling
Siegfried Schürenberg
Sir Henry Hockbridge
Hans Clarin
Lord Edward Lebanon
Eddi Arent
Richard Maria Bonwit
Ady Berber
Chiko
Elisabeth Flickenschildt
Lady Emily Lebanon
Richard Häussler
Dr. Amersham
Alexander Engel
Reverend Hastings
Alfred Vohrer
Edgar Wallace (voice)
Rainer Brandt
Inspektor Fuchsberger (voice)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of the 1960s German Edgar Wallace krimi craze, this film helped establish the 'locked castle murder' template later aped by slashers.
The titular scarf's pattern was allegedly chosen because it photographed well in black-and-white—practicality over exoticism, darling.
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