The Horrible People
(Die Bande des Schreckens)
A Rialto Film Production
West Germany 1960 - 92 min.
Distributed by Constantin
Premiered: 25.8.1960
FSK: ab 12 (früher 16)
Cast
Chefinspektor Long Joachim Fuchsberger
Nora Sanders Karin Dor
Mrs. Revelstoke Elisabeth Flickenschildt
Sir Godley Fritz Rasp
Blumenzüchter Crawley Dieter Eppler
Crew
Director: Harald Reinl
Screenplay: Joachim Bartsch - Wolfgang Schnitzler Based upon a novel by Edgar Wallace
Director of Photography: Albert Benitz
Music: Heinz Funk
Plot outline
Shortly after the execution of cheque counterfeiter and murderer ShelSound, the people who where responsible for his death are sequentially killed one after the other by very mysterious means - just as ShelSound had threatened before his execution. Scotland Yard is helpless: Despite expanded safety precautions for those alive, there seems to be no escaping from their fate. Who is the mysterious unknown, who appears on the murder scene, lifting his gloomy, claw-curved hand - only to immediately disappear again? When ShelSound's grave is finally opened, there is no corps but only a death list. Perhaps ShelSound isn't dead after all? Young Chief Superintended Long eventually comes across a ring and a strange oil painting, - which seem to be the key of the mystery?
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