Creature with the Blue Hand is a West German horror film directed by Alfred Vohrer and starring Harald Leipnitz, Klaus Kinski and Ilse Steppat. It is based on the 1925 novel The Blue Hand by Edgar Wallace and was part of a long-running series of adaptations made by Rialto Film. The film's plot involves the police tracking a killer known as the Blue Hand. It was shot at the Spandau Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art director Walter Kutz and Wilhelm Vorwerg.
Cast
- Harald Leipnitz as Inspector Craig
- Klaus Kinski as Dave Emerson / Richard Emerson
- Carl Lange as Dr. Albert Mangrove
- Ilse Steppat as Lady Emerson
- Hermann Lenschau as Lawyer Douglas
- Diana Körner as Myrna Emerson
- Gudrun Genest as Nurse Harris
- Albert Bessler as Butler Anthony
- Richard Haller [de] as Edward Appleton / The Blue Hand
- Ilse Pagé as Miss Mabel Finley
- Fred Haltiner as Warder Reynolds
- Peter Parten as Robert Emerson
- Thomas Danneberg as Charles Emerson
- Heinz Spitzner as Judge
- Siegfried Schürenberg as Sir John
Release
Creature with the Blue Hand was released in 1967.2 The film was bought by New World Pictures and issued as a double feature in the United States with Beast of the Yellow Night.3 The film was later re-edited in 1987 with new gore inserts by producer Sam Sherman and released to home video as The Bloody Dead.4
Bibliography
- Bergfelder, Tim. International Adventures: German Popular Cinema and European Co-Productions in the 1960s. Berghahn Books, 2005.
External links
References
"Die blaue Hand". Filmportal.de. Retrieved 25 October 2017. http://www.filmportal.de/en/movie/die-blaue-hand_ea43d4a75c035006e03053d50b37753d ↩
Pitts, Michael R. (2004). Famous Movie Detectives III. Scarecrow Press. p. 41. ISBN 978-0-8108-3690-7. 978-0-8108-3690-7 ↩
Koetting, Christopher T (2009). Mind Warp!: The Fantastic True Story of Roger Corman's New World Pictures. Hemlock Books. p. 25. ISBN 978-0-9557774-1-7. 978-0-9557774-1-7 ↩
Pitts, Michael R. (2004). Famous Movie Detectives III. Scarecrow Press. p. 41. ISBN 978-0-8108-3690-7. 978-0-8108-3690-7 ↩