Creature with the Blue Hand

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Creature with the Blue Hand
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Theatrical release poster
Directed by Alfred Vohrer [1]
Screenplay by Herbert Reinecker [1]
Based on The Blue Hand
by Edgar Wallace [1]
Produced by Horst Wendlandt [1]
Starring
Cinematography Ernst W. Kalinke [1]
Edited by Jutta Hering [1]
Music by Martin Böttcher [1]
Production
company
Distributed by Constantin Film [1]
Release date
  • 28 April 1967 (1967-04-28)
Running time
87 minutes
CountryWest Germany [1]

Creature with the Blue Hand (German : Die blaue Hand) is a West German horror film directed by Alfred Vohrer and starring Harald Leipnitz, Klaus Kinski and Ilse Steppat. [1] 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.

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Cast

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. [2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 "Die blaue Hand". Filmportal.de . Retrieved 25 October 2017.
  2. 1 2 Pitts, Michael R. (2004). Famous Movie Detectives III. Scarecrow Press. p. 41. ISBN   978-0-8108-3690-7.
  3. ↑ 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.

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