Edgar Wallace - Die Bande des Schreckens (1960)
장르 : 코미디, 범죄, 드라마
상영시간 : 1시간 32분
연출 : Harald Reinl
각본 : Wolfgang Schnitzler, J. Joachim Bartsch
시놉시스
A creepy German-made Wallace thriller about the ghost of a hanged man who returns to fulfill his promise. All of his accusers must die!
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.
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!
A London slasher pack the suitcases of his victims before stabbing them to death in this adaptation of Edgar Wallace's 'Secret of the Black Suitcases.'
The country estate of American emigre Abel Bellamy (Gerd Fröbe, in fine intimidating form) 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 (Karin Dor) 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?
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.
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.
Is a home for the blind hiding a murderer's nest? Shortly before his myste-rious death, millionaire Stuart changed his will and disinherited the local home for the blind. Inspector Higgins suspects that something is not right there.
A woman is kidnapped and her identity is stolen by criminals attempting to collect her inheritance.
A British colonial policeman in Africa investigates a murder in a hospital up river.
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.
Mobsters conspire to loot another criminal's treasure secured in an enormous booby-trapped vault.
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.
Strange, rhymed advertisements in the TIMES unsettle three London gangsters - and rightly so, because soon the first of them are killed. The mysterious killer also catches a shady lawyer. Higgins and Lane find out that the key to the crimes is an unsolved diamond heist from jeweler Bolden. It looks like those involved are fighting over the loot. Eventually, it turns out that the "robbery" was actually a set-up insurance scam that Bolden was personally behind and that killed his employee. Shortly before the last survivor is sent to the afterlife, Higgins and Lane are able to confront the "invisible" murderer.
Lord Paddington, an honorable member of society, is blown up with a small tennis ball. "The Four Righteous" are not of this opinion, however: "Sentenced to death and executed for countless crimes" they leave at the scene. More "honorable" personalities must die before the perfume Higgins betrays the murderer and exposes the "honorable personalities" as heads of the organized trafficking of girls.
After a long time, a circus is back in the area of Tidal Basin and already the strange phantom has reappeared: the white clown! He robbed banks and stores without a system and disappeared without a trace. Lane and Higgins, together with the worn-out journalist Shapiro, hunt for the mysterious culprit in the dense London fog.
A woman tries to protect her family's name when one relative becomes a murderer.
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.
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.