Das indische Tuch

1963 [GERMAN]

Crime / Drama / Mystery

4
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 90% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.6/10 10 1284 1.3K

dying and death edgar wallace

Please enable your VPΝ when downloading torrents

If you torrent without a VPΝ, your ISP can see that you're torrenting and may throttle your connection and get fined by legal action!

Get Expert VPΝ

Plot summary

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.

Director

Alfred Vohrer Photo
Alfred Vohrer

Top cast

Heinz Drache Photo
Heinz Drache as Frank Tanner
Hans Clarin Photo
Hans Clarin as Lord Edward Lebanon
Ady Berber Photo
Ady Berber as Chiko
Hans Nielsen Photo
Hans Nielsen as Mr. Tilling
720p.BLU
795.56 MB
1280*544
German 2.0
K-16
us  
24 fps
1 hr 26 min
Seeds ...

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by R T 10 / 10

I hided behind an armchair when I was

I hided behind an armchair when I was a small boy of 5 years. It was so exciting. I was really scared.
Reviewed by bill t 8 / 10

This was definitely a better version of "The

This was definitely a better version of "The Case Of The Frightened Lady", this black and white German film was fun, with a great cast (though unknown in North America except for Kinski). The ending is a bit ridic though.
Reviewed by 8 / 10

One Of The Better EDGAR WALLACE Krimi Movies From The 1960s.

The term "Krimi" refers to a genre of movies made between 1959-1967 in what was then West Germany. All of the early Krimis were shot in black and white and resembled the American "film noirs" of the 1940s and early 1950s. They are basically crime dramas although most also contained mystery elements, and were based on the works of English writer Edgar Wallace (1875-1932). Most of the stories are set in England but were shot in Germany using German actors and feature German and English soundtracks, although the latter are all dubbed.There were 32 Edgar Wallace movies made, and all by one company, Rialto Films. Another company, CCC Films, produced a series of movies based on works of the writer's son, Bryan Edgar Wallace 91902-1971). DAS INDISCHE TUCH (The Indian Scarf), the 14th film in the series, is one of the better ones as it contains all the classic mystery elements with comic relief provided by series regular Eddie Arent who usually appeared as an aloof butler or a self-effacing sidekick.The frequently recycled plot features several greedy relatives who have gathered for the reading of a will hoping to inherit the rich man's money. The will stipulates that in order to inherit any legacy they all must spend a week together in his castle. This allows one of them the opportunity to bump off the others as the week progresses...but which one is doing it? Almost all of the characters are unsympathetic and exceedingly avaricious so they get, in celebrated old dark house fashion, what's coming to them. Nothing new there. The twist comes from the film's title as all the victims are strangled with a silk Indian scarf.The cast of German actors includes the dependable Heinz Drache who was usually a stalwart leading man for many European productions during the 1960s. Here he plays the lawyer who reads the will and also winds up solving the mystery. Then there is the one and only Klaus Kinski who brings his celebrated brand of intensity to the role of a temperamental sculptor who may also be a drug addict. Veteran actress Elisabeth Flickenschildt is given the showy role of the widowed matriarch who harbors a dark secret while Hans Clarin is her artistic son who has dreams of being a concert pianist.The murders are committed from the killer's point-of-view and we are treated to a scene of a scarf being rolled tight in front of the camera right before each one. The film is well made and manages to be both spooky and tongue-in-cheek. The ending sums up the movie perfectly. Although SCARF isn't a great film, it holds a special memory for me. I first saw it with my mother, who was a great fan of mysteries, on board a German liner during my one and only jaunt to Europe back in 1964. I was 12 year old at the time and this was the first subtitled movie I'd ever seen. This disc is one of the fully restored EDGAR WALLACE series which was released back in 2004...For more reviews visit The Capsule Critic.
Read more IMDb reviews

1 Comment

Be the first to leave a comment