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Perpetrator wanted (1931)
Directed by Carl Heinz Wolff
Overview
A dedicated editor, who is engaged to the daughter of a wealthy senator thrills her father with a lecture about convictions based on circumstantial evidence. When a corpse with a disfigured face is found in the house of the senator, evidence points to the editor. An entertaining thriller with a fairly intricate plot and some critical comments on the practice of the law. Based on the novel “Der geschlossene Ring” by Frank Arnau.
Length 85 minutes
Actors
Paul Henckels | Gerda Maurus | Karl Ludwig Diehl | Fritz Odemar | Harry Hardt | Ernst Behmer | Rosa Valetti | Gustav Rickelt