Perpetrator Wanted

Overview

Cast & Crew

Production House

The Plot

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.

Run Time

1h 25m

Genre

Crime

Release Date

12 Mar 1931

Country

Germany

Language

German

Director & Producers

Carl Heinz Wolff
Director

Top Billed Cast

Paul Henckels
Konsul Lychner

Gerda Maurus
Vera - seine Tochter

Karl Ludwig Diehl
Dr. Gregor, Redakteur

Fritz Odemar
Dorner, Diener

Harry Hardt
Wittenhagen, Kriminalkommissar

Ernst Behmer
Schränker-Ede

Rosa Valetti
Nachbarin

Gustav Rickelt
Arzt Julius E. Herrmann
Bachmann, Nachtredakteur

Wanda Rotha
Lilly Meißner

Harry Frank
Dr. Wiese, Verteidiger Fritz Schroeter
Kriminalassistent

Technical Team

Egon Eis
Screenplay Frank Arnau
Novel

Rudolph Cartier
Screenplay Jacob Gade
Sound Alfred Hansen
Director of Photography Walter Rühland
Sound

Carl-Heinz Wolff Filmproduktion

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