Edgar Wallace - Watch Order: Release Order

1959 - 197239 Films59h 13m3.3 Average

The Edgar Wallace films featured here are specifically the German Krimi productions from 1959 to 1972, which created a beloved and distinctive subgenre of crime cinema. This series began with Der Frosch mit der Maske and sparked a cultural phenomenon in Germany that lasted over a decade.

While each film tells a standalone mystery story, they share a consistent gothic atmosphere, recurring cast members like Joachim Fuchsberger and Klaus Kinski, and the iconic opening "Hallo, hier spricht Edgar Wallace." The early black-and-white films established the classic style, while later color productions and Italian co-productions gradually moved away from the original formula before the series concluded in 1972.

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Fellowship of the Frog

19591h 29m3.5
Director: Harald Reinl
Cast: Joachim Fuchsberger, Siegfried Lowitz, Eddi Arent, Elfie von Kalckreuth, Walter Wilz

Both Scotland Yard and an amateur American sleuth are tracking a master criminal known as The Frog. This moniker refers to the bulging-eyed mask worn by the evildoer, and is reflected by the frog icons painfully tatooed onto the forearms of his henchmen. The trail leads to the country manor of an enigmatic, steely-eyed nabob, whose repressed son has eyes for the artistes at the Lolita cabaret, and whose lovely daughter captures the fancy of both the American playboy and the villain himself. Murder, kidnapping and seduction ensue.

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The Red Circle

19601h 30m3.1
Director: Jürgen Roland
Cast: Klausjürgen Wussow, Renate Ewert, Ernst Fritz Fürbringer, Fritz Rasp, Eddi Arent

A strange, red circle appears on the neck of a man saved from the guillotine. What is its mysterious meaning? Tragically, it turns out to be something of a family curse, as each generation thereafter bears the same sign, which in turn leads to blackmail and murder.

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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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The Terrible People

19601h 32m4.2
Director: Harald Reinl
Cast: Joachim Fuchsberger, Karin Dor, Elisabeth Flickenschildt, Karl-Georg Saebisch, Eddi Arent

The ghost of a hanged man returns to fulfill his promise. All of his accusers must die!

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The Green Archer

19611h 29m3.4
Director: Jürgen Roland
Cast: Klausjürgen Wussow, Karin Dor, Gert Fröbe, Wolfgang Völz, Eddi Arent

The country estate of American emigre Abel Bellamy is haunted by the ghost of the Green Archer, a 14th century Robin Hood type figure who terrorised the former lords of the manor. Now, with the gangster coming home on vaguely defined business and his niece Valerie arriving with her adoptive father to take up residence in the adjacent mansion, much to Bellamy's annoyance, the archer has returned. Who is he and what does he want?

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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

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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The Forger of London

19611h 33m2.6
Director: Harald Reinl
Cast: Karin Dor, Hellmut Lange, Siegfried Lowitz, Mady Rahl, Walter Rilla

A ring of counterfeiters is flooding the country with phony money, and suspicion falls upon a wealthy playboy who may--or may not--have amnesia.

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The Strange Countess

19611h 35m3.4
Director: Josef von Báky
Cast: Joachim Fuchsberger, Brigitte Grothum, Marianne Hoppe, Rudolf Fernau, Richard Häussler

Strange fortune hunters are behind a girl's murder in this Edgar Wallace tale.

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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

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 Curse of the Yellow Snake poster

The Curse of the Yellow Snake

19631h 40m3.1
Director: Franz Josef Gottlieb
Cast: Joachim Fuchsberger, Brigitte Grothum, Pinkas Braun, Doris Kirchner, Charles Regnier

A Chinese cult bent on taking over the world uses an idol called The Golden Reptile that they believe can give them the power to achieve their goal.

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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

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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Death Drums Along the River

19631h 23m2.5
Director: Lawrence Huntington
Cast: Richard Todd, Marianne Koch, Albert Lieven, Walter Rilla, Jeremy Lloyd

A British colonial policeman in Africa investigates a murder in a hospital up river.

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Room 13 poster

Room 13

19641h 29m3.3
Director: Harald Reinl
Cast: Joachim Fuchsberger, Karin Dor, Richard Häussler, Walter Rilla, Siegfried Schürenberg

A serial-killer is murdering the ladies of a night club. Detective Gray is seeking for the killer but can only find a lot of gangsters. And the killer is about to act again...

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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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The Mysterious Magician

19641h 25m3.9
Director: Alfred Vohrer
Cast: Joachim Fuchsberger, Heinz Drache, Sophie Hardy, Siegfried Lowitz, Margot Trooger

The sister of a famous, but as yet uncaught, criminal named "The Hexer" is murdered. Inspector Higgins of Scotland Yard believes that "The Hexer" will surface to take his revenge on his sister's killers, and plans to set a trap to finally capture him. However, soon bodies start piling up, and it looks as if "The Hexer" may get away yet again.

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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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Coast of Skeletons

19651h 30m3
Director: Robert Lynn
Cast: Richard Todd, Dale Robertson, Heinz Drache, Marianne Koch, Elga Andersen

A former district officer is assigned to work on a team of diamond prospectors, who are busy double crossing each other until they are blown up having found bullion.

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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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The Sinister Monk

19651h 27m3.8
Director: Harald Reinl
Cast: Karin Dor, Siegfried Lowitz, Harald Leipnitz, Siegfried Schürenberg, Eddi Arent

A hooded serial killer finds a novel way to murder his victims--he lashes them to death with a whip. The police try to track him down before any more murders occur.

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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 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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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

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

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

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

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?

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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