The creepy letters
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Edgar Wallace: The Creepy Letters |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2002 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Wolfgang F. Henschel |
| script | Peter Jürgensmeier , Florian Pauer |
| production | Horst Wendlandt |
| music | Stephen Chaste |
| camera | David Slama |
| cut | Sabine Brose |
| occupation | |
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Edgar Wallace: The Eerie Letters is a German crime film directed by Wolfgang F. Henschel from 2002 . It was produced by Horst Wendlandt and the script was written by Peter Jürgensmeier and Florian Pauer . The film is inspired by the novels of Edgar Wallace and builds on his novel The Missing Million . It was part of the second season of a series of 8 episodes in 2 seasons, which was filmed from 1995 to 1998 on behalf of the television broadcaster RTL , but was only broadcast on Super RTL on April 13, 2002 for the first time.
The film scenes were recorded in London and in Berlin and Brandenburg.
action
Inspector Higgins and his colleague Barbara Lane are supposed to investigate the suicide of an alleged drunkard and petty criminal on behalf of Sir John and encounter some discrepancies. A short time later, his friend and former accomplice Tom Averil is murdered, whereby an accident was staged for the death. Higgins and Clark take the lead and come across an unsolved diamond theft at jeweler William Bolden, in which both were involved. While Higgins tries to find out more about the case from her then attorney Robert Frazer, he too is murdered. The team comes across a series of rhyming ads in the Times related to the case and the diamond murder at the time, and in the ad shot they run into clerk Peggy Lynch who wants to help them with a story.
Higgins and Clark discover that the robbery was a production that killed a man who was engaged to Valerie Tinwhister, the niece of Miss Thinwhister, the housekeeper; shortly afterwards she took her own life. A short time later, Bolden had an accident, but could be recovered injured. Another hitherto unknown accomplice of the robbery, Stephen Scott, tries to blackmail Bolden and discover the hiding place of the jewels - but he too is killed. Bolden is the last survivor, and while the team visits him in the hospital, his pacemaker fails. Clark can save him by covering him with a lead apron. In the parking lot, Higgins sets Peggy Lynch with a remote control with which she had already manipulated Bolden's car and later Bolden's wheelchair and which she now wanted to use for the pacemaker. She turns out to be the supposedly dead Valerie Tinwhister, and it turns out that they both planned the murders together as revenge on their fiancé.
criticism
The film received very negative criticism. For example, the editorial team of TV Spielfilm wrote : "An embarrassing TV crime thriller from a series of five new Wallace films that were rightly in the poison cabinet for four years."
supporting documents
- ↑ a b "uncanny letters, the." In: Joachim Kramp, Jürgen Wehnert: The Edgar Wallace Lexikon. Life, work, films. It is impossible not to be captivated by Edgar Wallace! Verlag Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2004; Pp. 658- 659. ISBN 3-89602-508-2 .
- ↑ Edgar Wallace 1995–1998 on fernsehserien.de; accessed on May 31, 2020.
- ↑ The uncanny letters on fernsehserien.de; accessed on May 31, 2020.
- ^ Edgar Wallace: The uncanny letters on tvspielfilm.de; accessed on May 31, 2020.
Web links
- The eerie letters in the Internet Movie Database (English)