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- The film does have some comic relief in it with the lord of the castle Lord Blackmoor, Hans Reiser, spending all his time listening and recording on his portable tape recorder bird love calls in the woods.
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The Strangler of Blackmoor Castle (German: Der Würger von Schloß Blackmoor) is a 1963 West German thriller film directed by Harald Reinl and starring Karin Dor, Harry Riebauer and Rudolf Fernau. It was based on a novel by Bryan Edgar Wallace and was part of a trend of British-set thrillers inspired by Rialto Film 's series of adaptations of ...
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The film does have some comic relief in it with the lord of the castle Lord Blackmoor, Hans Reiser, spending all his time listening and recording on his portable tape recorder bird love calls in the woods.
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- Crime, Horror, Mystery
- Harald Reinl
- 1963-06-21
A 1963 German crime thriller directed by Harlad Reinl, and one of the Edgar Wallace Films. One night at Blackmoor Castle, a masked man appears before its owner Lucius Clark and demands that he hands over a batch of diamonds he stole some time ago.
Soon, a masked strangler appears in the castle, and several people one by one fall victims. It turns out that the murders are connected to certain Charles Manning whom Clark allegedly robbed of precious diamonds and killed in Africa.
The comic relief was in the form of the kilt wearing lord of the manor. He wasn’t funny. They also tossed in a sidekick kid named Philip (Stephen Schwartz) or “Phips” as he was nicknamed.
There's the usual cast of quirky and mysterious characters all with their own sinister motivations, with Harald Reinl in the director's chair. He launched the entire Krimi cycle with 1959's "The Fellowship of the Frog", but by now, his competent direction feels almost pedestrian in the light of the completely gonzo shots that have become trademarks
Overview. A strangler is loose on a British estate, and he not only strangles his victims but brands an "M" onto their foreheads before he decapitates them. Harald Reinl. Director. Bryan Edgar Wallace. Novel. Gustav Kampendonk. Screenplay. Ladislas Fodor. Screenplay.
