Edgar Wallace - Das Haus der toten Augen (2002)
Жанр : криминал, детектив, триллер
Время выполнения : 1Ч 33М
Директор : Wolfgang F. Henschel
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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 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 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.
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 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 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.
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.
A British colonial policeman in Africa investigates a murder in a hospital up river.
Mobsters conspire to loot another criminal's treasure secured in an enormous booby-trapped vault.
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.'
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.
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?
Ванда Мервилль едет в Лондон, чтобы вступить в права наследства. Но вместо этого ее похищают и отвозят в замок Блэквуд, где расположен женский пансион, связанный с лондонскими наркоторговцами. После того, как одна из воспитанниц пансиона была задушена таинственным Горбуном, инспектор Хопкинс принимается за поиски убийцы. Расследование преступления обретает иную окраску, когда выясняется, что глава Скотланд-Ярда сэр Джон является близким другом хозяйки пансиона…
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.
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.
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.
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.
Ночь в монастыре Маркс, одиноком загородном доме дворянской семьи Леван. Незнакомец идёт по темному парку. В замке всё тихо, но Аисла Крейн, племянница властной леди Леван, спит беспокойно. Внезапно раздаётся пронзительный крик. Чуть позже Уильям Стадд, шофер молодого лорда Вилли, был найден мёртвым в парке. Мотив убийства неясен, тем более что изначально всё выглядит так, как будто мертвец был человеком не имеющим врагов. Однако, как выясняет главный суперинтендант Таннер, улики говорят против этого: это индийский шарф, который использовался для убийства врагов в его стране происхождения.
Микаэль Блумквист — талантливый журналист, который верой и правдой добивается справедливости в самых скандальных делах — неожиданно терпит фиаско в своей деятельности, в результате чего вынужден отбыть срок лишения свободы.В то же время влиятельный человек Хенрик Вангер поручает ему дело о пропаже его племянницы, которая таинственным образом исчезла из имения Вангеров, и о которой вот уже множество лет нет никаких новостей. А попытки Хенрика разыскать родственницу так же не приводят к положительным результатам.