Whiteface

Movie
Original title	Whiteface
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1998
length	92 minutes
Rod
Director	Wolfgang F. Henschel
script	Detlef Bernd Blettenberg , Florian Pauer (idea), Edgar Wallace (template)
production	Willy Egger
music	Stephen Chaste
camera	David Slama
cut	Sabine Brose
occupation
Gunter Berger : Inspector Higgins Eddi Arent : Sir John Mariella Ahrens : Barbara Lane Rosalind Baffoe : Ann Pattison Horst Bollmann : Shapiro Uwe Zerbe : Dearborn Bojana Golenac : Jacqueline Griffith Victor Schefé Paul Norris Christian Grashof : Dr. Marford Christel Peters : Chair of the jury Tyron Ricketts : Homer Jackson

Whiteface is a German Edgar Wallace television film from 1998. On May 4, 2002, the television premiere was on Super RTL . The film is part of a short Edgar Wallace series from the 1990s. The first season was filmed in 1995 and the second in 1998. It is the eighth and final film in the Edgar Wallace series.

action

The case begins with an award ceremony for the best book author in the crime genre. The invited guests have dressed up to match the motto of the event. John Malony wins the award with his book Killer Clown . When the author receives the award, he is murdered with a throwing knife by a person disguised as a clown.

Undetected, the masked killer flees through the startled crowd and is able to escape. A reporter present follows the masked person on foot and can see him get into a car and drive away. With the help of this seedy reporter, Scotland Yard is following his heels.

Trivia

The further episodes are The Kensington Cat , The Carousel of Death , The Blind One , The Eerie Letters , The Horror Castle , The House of Dead Eyes and The Four Just . Actors from the old Wallace films also played , for example Eddi Arent , Harald Leipnitz , Pinkas Braun and Gisela Uhlen .

criticism

TV feature film : The viewer also turns pale as a sheet.

TV Today : With dreary stories, wriggling actors and outrageous dialogues ... (is the film) ... a violation of the Geneva Convention.

The lexicon of international films described the film as "trivial" and spoke of "relevant patterns that do not appear fresher even when reproduced repeatedly."

Web links

• Whiteface in theInternet Movie Database(English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ criticism tvtoday.de
2. ^ Whiteface. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed June 25, 2017 .