The Strange Countess

(Die seltsame Gräfin)

A Rialto Film Production
West Germany 1961 - 95 min.
Distributed by Constantin
Premiered: 10.11.1961
FSK: ab 16, nf

Cast

Gräfin Moron   Lil Dagover
Mike Dorn   Joachim Fuchsberger
Margaret Reddle   Brigitte Grothum
Mary Pinder   Marianne Hoppe
Stuart Bresset   Klaus Kinski

Crew

Director:   Josef von Baky
Screenplay:   Robert A. Stemmle
Based upon a novel by Edgar Wallace
Director of Photography:   Richard Angst
Music:   Martin Böttcher

Plot outline

Young Margaret, who is troubled by anonymous phone calls and murder threats, starts working as a secretary for the Countess Leonora Moron. After a set of assassination attempts on Margaret, Scotland Yard's Mike Dorn discovers that Margaret is the daughter of Mary Pinders, who was married in the past to the brother of the countess, Lord William. Margaret is therefore Lord Williams legal heiress and Mike Dorn suddenly becomes aware of the danger Margaret is in. When Margaret is kidnapped to a lunatic asylum, she meets her mother there. Her mother was innocently locked up in jail for many years, accused of murdering of Lord William. Mike Dorn is able to release Margaret and finds out, that the Countess Leonora Moron killed her brother and now Margaret is in her way...