Creature with the Blue Hand

Creature with the Blue Hand
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Alfred Vohrer[1]
Produced by	Horst Wendlandt[1]
Screenplay by	Herbert Reinecker[1]
Based on	The Blue Hand; by Edgar Wallace[1]
Starring	Harald Leipnitz; Klaus Kinski; Ilse Steppat;
Music by	Martin Böttcher[1]
Cinematography	Ernst W. Kalinke[1]
Edited by	Jutta Hering[1]
Production; company	Rialto Film[1]
Distributed by	Constantin Film [1]
Release date	28 April 1967;
Running time	87 minutes
Country	West 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.

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 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 on a double bill 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]

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References

"Die blaue Hand". Filmportal.de. Retrieved 25 October 2017.
Pitts, Michael R. (2004). Famous Movie Detectives III. Scarecrow Press. p. 41. ISBN 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.

Bibliography

Bergfelder, Tim. International Adventures: German Popular Cinema and European Co-Productions in the 1960s. Berghahn Books, 2005.

External links

Creature with the Blue Hand on IMDb

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[filmportal-1] "Die blaue Hand". Filmportal.de. Retrieved 25 October 2017.

[DetectiveIII-2] Pitts, Michael R. (2004). Famous Movie Detectives III. Scarecrow Press. p. 41. ISBN 978-0-8108-3690-7.

[New_World-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.