Edgar Wallace - Watch Order: Color Films

1966 - 197215 Films22h 52m3.1 Average

This watch list covers the vibrant later era of the Edgar Wallace series, beginning with The Hunchback of Soho in 1966 and continuing through the final Italian co-productions. The period marked a shift toward more flamboyant visuals and increasingly camp sensibilities.

The move to color coincided with the series embracing a more playful, sometimes tongue-in-cheek approach while still delivering thrills. These later films show the evolution toward the giallo style that would influence Italian horror cinema, culminating in the atmospheric final entries.

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The Hunchback of Soho

19661h 29m3.3
Director: Alfred Vohrer
Cast: Günther Stoll, Pinkas Braun, Monika Peitsch, Siegfried Schürenberg, Eddi Arent

A woman is kidnapped and her identity is stolen by criminals attempting to collect her inheritance.

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Circus of Fear

19661h 31m2.6
Director: John Llewellyn Moxey
Cast: Christopher Lee, Leo Genn, Anthony Newlands, Heinz Drache, Eddi Arent

A circus becomes the location for stolen loot and murder.

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The Trygon Factor

19661h 28m3.6
Director: Cyril Frankel
Cast: Stewart Granger, Susan Hampshire, Cathleen Nesbitt, James Culliford, Brigitte Horney

A Scotland Yard detective is investigating a string of robberies and a murder, and the information he uncovers leads him to the estate of a wealthy but strange English family, who share their mansion with a group of nuns. The detective comes to suspect that neither the family nor the nuns is quite what they seem to be.

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Creature with the Blue Hand

19671h 27m3.3
Director: Alfred Vohrer
Cast: Harald Leipnitz, Klaus Kinski, Carl Lange, Ilse Steppat, Hermann Lenschau

Scotland Yard is after a homicidal maniac called The Blue Hand, which is what he uses to kill his victims.

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The College Girl Murders poster

The College Girl Murders

19671h 28m3.5
Director: Alfred Vohrer
Cast: Joachim Fuchsberger, Uschi Glas, Grit Boettcher, Siegfried Schürenberg, Konrad Georg

Police try to track down a hooded serial killer who murders his victims with a combination of acid and poison gas

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Five Golden Dragons

19671h 44m2.6
Director: Jeremy Summers
Cast: Robert Cummings, Margaret Lee, Rupert Davies, Klaus Kinski, Maria Rohm

While travelling through Hong Kong, Bob Mitchell accidentally stumbles into the middle of criminal negotiations between a mean gang, the Five Golden Dragons and the local mobsters.

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The Horror of Blackwood Castle poster

The Horror of Blackwood Castle

19681h 32m3.5
Director: Alfred Vohrer
Cast: Heinz Drache, Karin Baal, Horst Tappert, Siegfried Schürenberg, Agnes Windeck

Scotland Yard must discover why people are being murdered by a monstrous dog at Blackwood Castle.

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The Zombie Walks poster

The Zombie Walks

19681h 30m3.5
Director: Alfred Vohrer
Cast: Joachim Fuchsberger, Siw Mattson, Hubert von Meyerinck, Wolfgang Kieling, Pinkas Braun

A serial killer who calls himself "The Laughing Corpse" dresses up in a skeleton costume and kills his victims with a poison-filled scorpion-shaped ring.

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Gorilla Gang

19681h 36m2.7
Director: Alfred Vohrer
Cast: Horst Tappert, Uschi Glas, Uwe Friedrichsen, Hubert von Meyerinck, Herbert Fux

When another dead elderly gentleman is fished out of the Thames, Inspector David Perkins is convinced that the gorilla gang is active again. On a doll found with the body, characters of an African language are discovered. Together with Sergeant Pepper and language specialist Susan MacPherson, the search for the head of the gang begins.

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The Man with the Glass Eye

19691h 27m2.7
Director: Alfred Vohrer
Cast: Horst Tappert, Karin Hübner, Hubert von Meyerinck, Stefan Behrens, Fritz Wepper

A man is found dead in a London hotel. The knife is still firmly stuck in the victim's chest, and Inspector Perkins strangely finds a glass eye in his jacket pocket. Kurt after that a second, mysterious murder happens: A city-famous dancer of the Las Vegas Girls, who perform at the London Odeon Theater, is poisoned. Is there a connection between the pretty dancer and the hotel guest? Inspector Perkins and his colleagues are pressed for time. The "man with the glass eye" strikes deadly again and again. A first clue leads Scotland Yard to a billiard club, where one has to show a glass eye as an admission ticket.

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Double Face poster

Double Face

19691h 28m3.1
Director: Riccardo Freda
Cast: Klaus Kinski, Christiane Krüger, Günther Stoll, Annabella Incontrera, Margaret Lee

After a businessman's unfaithful wife is seemingly killed in a car accident, he is led by several unscrupulous characters to believe that she is actually alive.

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The Devil Came from Akasava

19711h 24m2.1
Director: Jesús Franco
Cast: Fred Williams, Soledad Miranda, Horst Tappert, Ewa Strömberg, Siegfried Schürenberg

A mineral is discovered which can turn metal to gold or humans into zombies. When the mineral is stolen, secret agents are sent in to get the mineral back!

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Angels of Terror

19711h 29m3.3
Director: Harald Philipp
Cast: Uschi Glas, Hansjörg Felmy, Werner Peters, Harry Riebauer, Siegfried Schürenberg

An Australian woman arrives in London to search for her sister who she finds is involved with a heroin smuggling gang. The gang itself is under attack from an unknown rival, who is methodically assassinating them with a shot to the head.

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What Have You Done to Solange? poster

What Have You Done to Solange?

19721h 47m3.8
Director: Massimo Dallamano
Cast: Fabio Testi, Karin Baal, Cristina Galbó, Joachim Fuchsberger, Günther Stoll

After several Catholic school pupils are murdered, a teacher who is having an affair with one of his students becomes a suspect. When other gruesome murders start occurring shortly thereafter, the teacher suspects that he may be the cause of them.

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Seven Blood-Stained Orchids

19721h 32m3.4
Director: Umberto Lenzi
Cast: Antonio Sabàto, Uschi Glas, Pier Paolo Capponi, Rossella Falk, Marina Malfatti

A maniac on the loose is committing savage acts of slaughter, and one survivor may be the only key to unmasking the serial slayer known as the Half-Moon Killer. The mysterious half-moon lockets he leaves with his victims could be the only key to unraveling his sinister motives, but will that be enough before he completes his ice-cold plot to claim his intended seven victims?

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