Edgar Wallace - Watch Order: Vohrer Films

1961 - 196914 Films21h 10m3.4 Average

This watch list delivers a core Edgar Wallace experience from the series' most prolific and influential director. Alfred Vohrer directed 14 films in the series and became synonymous with the Krimi genre's signature style of kinetic camera work, self-aware humor, and masterful blending of crime and horror elements.

Vohrer's films showcase his innovative visual techniques and the camp sensibility that made these movies both thrilling and entertaining. His work established many of the genre conventions that defined German crime cinema of the 1960s.

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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 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.

CrimeMystery
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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 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 Mysterious Magician poster

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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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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The Hunchback of Soho poster

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.

CrimeMysteryThriller
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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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10
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

CrimeThrillerMystery
11
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 poster

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 poster

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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