Edgar Wallace - Watch Order: Kinski Films

1960 - 196914 Films21h 14m3.3 Average

Experience Klaus Kinski's electrifying presence across more than a dozen films in the series, where he perfected his portrayal of sinister villains, eccentric suspects, and unhinged characters. Kinski's intense performances brought a unique menace and unpredictability to the Edgar Wallace films.

From his debut in The Avenger through Double Face, Kinski's roles were designed to confuse and mislead viewers while delivering memorable moments of controlled madness. His appearances elevated every film he was in, making him an iconic part of the series' appeal.

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The Avenger poster

The Avenger

19601h 39m4.1
Director: Karl Anton
Cast: Heinz Drache, Ingrid van Bergen, Benno Sterzenbach, Ina Duscha, Ludwig Linkmann

A maniac is loose in London, decapitating his victims and sending the heads to Scotland Yard.

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Dead Eyes of London poster

Dead Eyes of London

19611h 38m3.3
Director: Alfred Vohrer
Cast: Joachim Fuchsberger, Karin Baal, Eddi Arent, Wolfgang Lukschy, Dieter Borsche

A disfigured killer with glazed-over white eyes is doing the dirty work so that an insurance agent-doctor can get the victims' insurance money.

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The Devil's Daffodil poster

The Devil's Daffodil

19611h 34m2.9
Director: Ákos Ráthonyi
Cast: Joachim Fuchsberger, Sabine Sesselmann, Klaus Kinski, Ingrid van Bergen, Christopher Lee

A Chinese detective breaks up a drug smuggling ring and tries to find the "Daffodil Killer". The drug smugglers had devised the ingenious method of smuggling heroin from Hong Kong in the stems of daffodils.

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Secret of the Red Orchid

19621h 24m2.9
Director: Helmut Ashley
Cast: Christopher Lee, Adrian Hoven, Marisa Mell, Pinkas Braun, Christiane Nielsen

Rival gangsters from Chicago move to London and attempt to extort money from rich Britons.

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The Door with Seven Locks poster

The Door with Seven Locks

19621h 36m3.6
Director: Alfred Vohrer
Cast: Heinz Drache, Eddi Arent, Sabine Sesselmann, Pinkas Braun, Hans Nielsen

A rich man bequeaths seven keys to seven of his friends, but only one will unlock the door to untold wealth.

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The Inn on the River poster

The Inn on the River

19621h 32m3.6
Director: Alfred Vohrer
Cast: Joachim Fuchsberger, Brigitte Grothum, Elisabeth Flickenschildt, Klaus Kinski, Eddi Arent

A serial killer named The Shark is terrorizing London by killing his victims with a speargun and then, dressed in a scruba-diver's wetsuit, using the city's sewer tunnels to make his getaway.

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The Squeaker poster

The Squeaker

19631h 29m3.5
Director: Alfred Vohrer
Cast: Heinz Drache, Barbara Rütting, Günter Pfitzmann, Agnes Windeck, Eddi Arent

Scotland Yard investigates a series of murders where the victims have died by snake venom poisoning.

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The Black Abbot

19631h 29m3.2
Director: Franz Josef Gottlieb
Cast: Joachim Fuchsberger, Grit Boettcher, Dieter Borsche, Charles Regnier, Eva Ingeborg Scholz

Several employees on a nobleman's estate show up at a former abbey, reputed to be haunted, to search for a hidden treasure. Howver, a mysterious hooded figure begins killing off those who may have figured out where the treasure is hidden.

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The Indian Scarf poster

The Indian Scarf

19631h 26m3.6
Director: Alfred Vohrer
Cast: Heinz Drache, Corny Collins, Klaus Kinski, Gisela Uhlen, Hans Nielsen

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.

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The Curse of the Hidden Vault poster

The Curse of the Hidden Vault

19641h 30m3.2
Director: Franz Josef Gottlieb
Cast: Harald Leipnitz, Judith Dornys, Rudolf Forster, Werner Peters, Ernst Fritz Fürbringer

Mobsters conspire to loot another criminal's treasure secured in an enormous booby-trapped vault.

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Traitor's Gate

19641h 27m3
Director: Freddie Francis
Cast: Albert Lieven, Gary Raymond, Margot Trooger, Catherine Schell, Eddi Arent

A businessman organises a caper to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London.

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Again the Ringer poster

Again the Ringer

19651h 35m3.3
Director: Alfred Vohrer
Cast: Heinz Drache, Barbara Rütting, Brigitte Horney, Siegfried Schürenberg, Eddi Arent

Arthur Milton aka Der Hexer (The Magician/Ringer) must return to London after his calling card was left at the scene of a murder he did not commit.

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Creature with the Blue Hand poster

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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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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