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Rating: 6.5 stars

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Amazon Prime Germany diamonds murder strangled decapitation mansion murder mystery black gloves England detective black and white dubbed krimi

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The Strangler of Blackmoor Castle (1963)

Directed by Harald Reinl

Crime | Mystery

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.

Length 89 minutes

Actors

Karin Dor | Harry Riebauer | Ingmar Zeisberg | Walter Giller | Rudolf Fernau | Hans Nielsen | Dieter Eppler | Hans Reiser | Richard Häussler | Albert Bessler | Peter Nestler | Gerhard Hartig | Carl de Vogt | Stephan Schwartz | Werner Schott | Egon Vogel

Viewing History (seen 2 times)

Viewing Notes

This krimi is a nifty b&w German murder mystery that sorta plays like a proto-giallo. Had this been a tad more grim I’d classify it as a horror. This is one that deserves a restored transfer w/the original German dialogue (altho the dub isn’t bad). The “print” on Prime is super washed out and fuzzy. It’s amusing to me that this is a West German production w/German actors yet set in the rural outskirts of London (another reason the English dub doesn’t detract).

This would be a neat one to see cleaned up along with a crowd in a theater.

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