The Secret of the Black Trunk

The Secret of the Black Trunk
Directed byWerner Klingler
Written byGustav Kampendonk
Based onDeath Packs a Suitcase
by Bryan Edgar Wallace
Produced byArtur Brauner
StarringJoachim Hansen
Senta Berger
Hans Reiser
CinematographyRichard Angst
Edited byWalter Wischniewsky
Music byGert Wilden
Production
company
Distributed byGloria Film
Release date
  • 23 February 1962 (1962-02-23)
Running time
85 minutes
CountryWest Germany
LanguageGerman

The Secret of the Black Trunk (German: Das Geheimnis der schwarzen Koffer) is a 1962 West German crime thriller film directed by Werner Klingler and starring Joachim Hansen, Senta Berger and Hans Reiser.[1][2] It is based on the novel Death Packs a Suitcase by British writer Bryan Edgar Wallace. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Paul Markwitz and Wilhelm Vorwerg. It was shot at the Spandau Studios in West Berlin. It was produced at the time a successful series of films were produced based on the novels of Byran's father Edgar Wallace.

Cast

References

  1. ^ Kujacinski p.91
  2. ^ Kramp p.264

Bibliography

  • Bergfelder, Tim. International Adventures: German Popular Cinema and European Co-Productions in the 1960s. Berghahn Books, 2005.
  • Kramp, Joachim· Hallo! Hier spricht Edgar Wallace: die Geschichte der deutschen Kriminalfilmserie 1959-1972. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, 2001.
  • Kujacinski Dona. Horst Wendlandt. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, 2016.
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