Der Mönch mit der Peitsche (1967)

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The College Girl Murders is a 1967 West German krimi film directed by Alfred Vohrer and starring Joachim Fuchsberger, Uschi Glas and Grit Boettcher. The film was part of Rialto Film's long-running series of film adaptations of Edgar Wallace works which began a cycle that started in the late 1950s.

Background and production

Rialto Film produced a cycle of West German adaptations of English author Edgar Wallace's work in a uniquely West German style of crime thriller known as the kriminalfilme or krimis. Originally based in Denmark, Rialto Film made a series of Wallace adaptations with Der Frosch mit der Maske (1959) and Der rote Kreis (1960) which were aimed at the German film market and were successes in German film box office.

The College Girl Murders was an adaptation of Wallace's The Terror. The story had already been adapted by Rialto two years earlier as The Sinister Monk. The Sinister Monk, had 2.5 million spectators during its initial theatrical run. In his book German Popular Cinema and the Rialto Krimi Phenomenon: Dark Eyes of London (2020), author Nicholas G. Schlegel said that at this period, Rialto was adding flourishes of other contemporary film series.

The film was shot between April 26, and June 9, 1967 at CCC Studios in Berlin and on location at Moabit Prison, Ss. Peter and Paul church on Nikolskoë, Pfaueninsel, and Teufelsberg.

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