Alfred Vohrer Archives

Only the Wind Knows the Answer

The yacht of millionaire Hellmann explodes in the Mediterranean Sea, with him and 8 men crew on board. Insurance agent Lucas investigates at the Cote D'Azur, because there's the suspicion that it could have been suicide. He finds out that Hellmann's villa was monitored, the tapes also contain information about the explosion. He uses them for blackmail.

NR

4

1974 Crime 107 min Play

7.3

The Man with the Glass Eye

A pool-hall is used as the front for a white slavery ring.

NR

7.3

1969 Crime 87 min Play

6.1

The Gorilla Gang

In this German detective thriller, swindlers using a false charity as a front send a hit man around London to murder wealthy people whose deaths can benefit the organization. This film is one of a very large number of German Scotland-Yard thrillers based on the novels of Edgar Wallace.

NR

6.1

1968 Crime 96 min Play

6.6

The Monster of Blackwood Castle

Scotland Yard must discover why people are being murdered by a monstrous dog at Blackwood Castle.

NR

6.6

1968 Crime 92 min Play

6.5

The Zombie Walks

A serial killer who calls himself "The Laughing Corpse" dresses up in a skeleton costume and kills his victims with a poison-filled scorpion-shaped ring.

NR

6.5

1968 Crime 90 min Play

6.4

The College Girl Murders

Police try to track down a hooded serial killer who murders his victims with a combination of acid and poison gas

NR

6.4

1967 Crime 88 min Play

6.9

Creature with the Blue Hand

Scotland Yard is after a homicidal maniac called The Blue Hand, which is what he uses to kill his victims.

NR

6.9

1967 Crime 87 min Play

5.6

Thunder at the Border

Firehand and his Apache friend Winnetou are determined to get justice for the murder of four young braves. They set off to track down the gang responsible for the horrendous act.

NR

5.6

1966 Adventure 98 min Play

6

Flaming Frontier

Old Surehand and his faithful old friend Old Wabble are on the trail of a cold-blooded killer with the nickname 'The General'. The brother of Old Surehand was murdered by him. On the way Old Surehand and Old Wabble are involved in the running conflict between settlers and Comanches who are likely to go on the war path. Old Surehand can count on the support of his friend and blood brother Winnetou, the amiable chief of the Apaches. Written by Robert

NR

6

1965 Adventure 90 min Play

6

Frontier Hellcat

Frontier Hellcat was the fourth in a series of 1960s European westerns based on Karl May's "Winnetou" character. Stewart Granger takes over from Lex Barker in the leading "Anglo"-role of the mysterious maverick who wanders from town to town doing the "Lone Ranger" bit. The hellcat of the title is Elke Sommer, a tempestuous frontierswoman who reluctantly accepts Granger's help in attaining safe passage through the Rocky Mountains ("played" in this film by the Alps).

NR

6

1964 Adventure 98 min Play

6.6

The Squeaker

Scotland Yard investigates a series of murders where the victims have died by snake venom poisoning.

NR

6.6

1963 Crime 89 min Play

6.4

The Indian Scarf

When a wealthy man dies, his avaricious relatives look forward to inheriting all his money. However, he leaves a provision in his will that they all must spend a week together in his castle before they will be able to inherit anything. At the castle (which is cut off from the outside world), the relatives soon begin to be killed off one by one, each strangled with an Indian scarf.

NR

6.4

1963 Crime 86 min Play

5.8

The Inn on the River

A serial killer named The Shark is terrorizing London by killing his victims with a speargun and then, dressed in a scruba-diver's wetsuit, using the city's sewer tunnels to make his getaway.

NR

5.8

1962 Crime 92 min Play

6.4

The Door with Seven Locks

A rich man bequeaths seven keys to seven of his friends, but only one will unlock the door to untold wealth.

NR

6.4

1962 Crime 96 min Play

6

Dead Eyes of London

A disfigured killer with glazed-over white eyes is doing the dirty work so that an insurance agent-doctor can get the victims' insurance money.

NR

6

1961 Crime 98 min Play