Creature with the Blue Hand

Creature with the Blue Hand
Film poster
Directed by	Alfred Vohrer Samuel M. Sherman (uncredited)
Produced by	Fritz Klotsch Horst Wendlandt Preben Philipsen
Written by	Fred Denger Uschi Haarbrücker Harald G. Petersson Herbert Reinecker Samuel M. Sherman
Based on	the novel The Beast by Edgar Wallace
Starring	Harald Leipnitz Klaus Kinski
Music by	Martin Böttcher
Cinematography	Ernst W. Kalinke
Edited by	Jutta Hering
Production company	Rialto
Release dates	28 April 1967
Running time	87 minutes
Country	West Germany
Language	German

Creature with the Blue Hand (German: Die blaue Hand and also known as The Bloody Dead) is a 1967 West German crime film directed by Alfred Vohrer and starring Harald Leipnitz.^[1] In this movie, police track a killer known as the Blue Hand.

Cast

• Harald Leipnitz – Inspektor Craig
• Klaus Kinski – Dave Emerson / Richard Emerson
• Carl Lange – Dr. Albert Mangrove
• Ilse Steppat – Lady Emerson
• Hermann Lenschau – Rechtsanwalt Douglas
• Diana Körner – Myrna Emerson
• Gudrun Genest – Schwester Harris
• Albert Bessler – Butler Anthony
• Richard Haller – Edward Appleton / Die Blaue Hand
• Ilse Pagé – Miss Mabel Finley
• Fred Haltiner – Wärter Reynolds
• Peter Parten – Robert Emerson
• Thomas Danneberg – Charles Emerson
• Heinz Spitzner – Richter
• Siegfried Schürenberg – Sir John

Production

The film was bought by New World Pictures and issued on a double bill in the US with Beast of the Yellow Night.^[2]

References

1. "New York Times: Creature with the Blue Hand". NY Times. Retrieved 21 October 2008.
2. Christopher T Koetting, Mind Warp!: The Fantastic True Story of Roger Corman's New World Pictures, Hemlock Books. 2009 p 25

External links

• Creature with the Blue Hand at the Internet Movie Database