Director:
Walter Summers, Edgar (Book) Wallace, Dario Argento, Alfred Hitchcock
Actor:
Karl Malden, Horst Frank, Bela Lugosi, Lilli Palmer, Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck
EDGAR WALLACE BOX
5 MOVIE DVD BOX
1934 - 1970
441 mins
Language: German / English
FSK 16
The Strangler of London (TOP classic!):
London is in turmoil: bodies keep washing up on the Thames, apparently murdered in an identical pattern. Lieutenant Holtz is faced with a puzzle. What is striking is that there are significant similarities regarding the victims' life insurance policies.
Meanwhile, the insurance broker Dr. Orlof, who also offers medical services at an asylum for the blind, is looking for a new victim. A true rollercoaster ride of horror begins...
The Chamber of Secrets
After his death, Lord Selford is buried in the family crypt - with a grave offering of very valuable jewels. The crypt can only be opened if all seven locks are unlocked. The family doctor Dr. Manetta, who has a penchant for torture tools, resides in Selford Manor and plans to acquire these keys. One by one the heirs arrive with their keys. They are accompanied by a Scotland Yard inspector, because one of the heirs has already passed away and it is questionable whether the others will survive the coming nights...
The mysterious ship!
After a nervous breakdown, Captain Holling is relieved of his command. He is replaced by Captain Downey, who takes over the ship just as it is to be used for a remote control experiment. Professor Grimson has developed a system that allows ships to be controlled from land. But as he demonstrates the system, foreign agents eavesdrop on the demonstration. Shortly afterwards the professor is attacked and fatally wounded...
The Cat of Nine Tails
A reporter named Franco Arno lost his eyesight in an accident and was therefore no longer able to do his job as a reporter. As a blind man, he relies on the help of his young niece. He still makes money at the newspaper by making crossword puzzles.
One day while walking with his niece, he overhears a strange conversation between two men in a car outside a medical institute. Later that day, or more precisely that night, someone breaks into this institute for no apparent reason and kills a security guard in the process. The curious Arno then decides to do a little research on his own and receives help from the reperter Carlo Giordani.
A series of mysterious murders soon follows, which seem to be connected to the event at the institute. The two find nine different clues that they have to follow in order to solve the mystery of the mysterious murderer and his bestial deeds...
I'm fighting for you
Dr. Edwardes (Gregory Peck), the new boss of a mental institution, is not who he seems. Does he have the real Dr. Edwardes murdered? Constance (Ingrid Bergmann) is supposed to find out through dream analysis.
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