The Curse of the Yellow Snake

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The Curse of the Yellow Snake
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Directed by Franz Josef Gottlieb
Written by
Based on The Yellow Snake by Edgar Wallace
Produced by
Starring
Cinematography Siegfried Hold
Edited by Walter Wischniewsky
Music by Raimund Rosenberger
Production
company
Distributed by Constantin Film
Release date
  • 22 February 1963 (1963-02-22)
Running time
98 minutes
CountryWest Germany
Language German

The Curse of the Yellow Snake (German: Der Fluch der gelben Schlange) is a 1963 West German crime thriller film directed by Franz Josef Gottlieb and starring Joachim Fuchsberger, Brigitte Grothum and Pinkas Braun. [1] It is based on the 1926 novel The Yellow Snake by Edgar Wallace. It was made as part of a series of films based on Wallace's work, made either by CCC Film or the rival Rialto.

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It was shot at the Spandau Studios in Berlin and on location in London. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Hans Jürgen Kiebach and Ernst Schomer.

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  1. Bergfelder p.254

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