The Ringer (1932)
Der Hexer
A shifty lawyer is threatened with death within two days by a criminal who supposedly died in Australia.
- Date of release
- 1932-07-21
- TMDB
- 5.1 / 10 (7)
- Runtime
- 1h 28m
- Genres
- Crime, Mystery, Drama
- Director
- Karel Lamač, Martin Frič
Casting
- Paul Richter — Inspektor Wenbury
- Maria Matray — Mary Lenley
- Carl Walther Meyer — John Lenley
- Wera Engels — Cora Ann Milton
- Fritz Rasp — Rechtsanwalt Maurice Meister
- Leopold Kramer — Polizeiarzt Dr. Lomond
- Paul Henckels — Hauptinspektor Bliss
- Franz Schafheitlin — Wachtmeister Carter
- Karl Etlinger — Dieb Sam Hackitt
- Karl Forest — Oberst Walford
- Johannes Buzalski
Interesting facts
The Ringer is a 1932 Austrian-German mystery film directed by Martin Frič and Karel Lamač and starring Paul Richter, Maria Matray and Wera Engels. It is a screen adaptation of Edgar Wallace's 1925 novel The Ringer. Another German version, Der Hexer, was made in 1964. It was shot at the Sievering Studios in Vienna. The film's sets were designed by the art director Heinz Fenchel.
Production
It is Lamač's second adaptation from a novel by Wallace, after The Squeaker, the year before, both being the first sound film adaptations of Wallace books in German cinema.
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