Tuesday, March 1, 2011

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Edgar Wallace


Edgar Wallace - the frog with the bald head

One of malapropisms, that we as teenagers
about the increasingly similar, but very mysterious
sounding and evocative title of the Edgar Wallace films
making fun.
There was the monk with the whip and the
frog with the mask, the green archers,
the red circle, the black Department of the curse of the yellow snake,
the mystery of the red orchid and the mystery of the yellow daffodils
and soon you might not know everything, what film
is now which was, and whether they had seen the .
For the Edgar Wallace films were repeatedly for years
in a beautiful regularity in the
double feature of the cinema * Rio "in Binningen.



"It is impossible not to be bound by Edgar Wallace"
was called the brilliant slogan, and for a few films of the
hit series, which also means.



brilliant Like the title, were the movie posters, a
dark, showed dark secrets and

thick fog shrouded London.

Although large parts of London in German
lands were.
The Edgar Wallace films created a very own universe,
in the German actor pretending as if they were
British, and this with a tenacity
that it believed at the circuit itself.




Joachim Fuchs and Heinz Drache alternated mostly from
in the role of the Scotland Yard Inspector,
Klaus Kinski as a crazed villain practiced
and Eddi Arent provided the laughs.



between, appeared a number of illustrious German
actors like
about Marianne Koch, Elisabeth Flickenschildt, Dieter Borsche
Siegfried Lowitz and many, many others at that time rank
and had names.




"says Hello .... here Edgar Wallace," The award of the spirit voice at the beginning of each strip
- Was another
trademark of the films, which became the longest and most commercially successful
series of German cinema.



The Rialto Film acquired the exclusive rights of almost all
Wallace's novels, founded a German subsidiary and
total of 32 of the 38 films produced Wallace.
The novels published by Gold man thriller.




Since 1966 were the other films of the series in color.

What they, in my view, unfortunately, increasingly lost to the atmosphere
, the very very own Edgar Wallceflair was
black and white swirling mists and dark gray
shaped walls. In addition, the action sequences
always schematic and predictable, the stories
as the dress of the actors were always transparent.
But even if I reply in particular can hardly remember much about it
to a particular film, they have me on some
dreary, rainy Sunday afternoon nursed
and are now merged into a single Edgar Wallace film
in an endless loop.




blödelte Later Otto successfully around with film clips.
some point they tried unsuccessfully to Edgar Wallace for
television revive with new films and,
short time, has a silly parody titled
"The Wixxer" (with the otherwise unbescholtenenen and
esteemed Bastian Bastewka) to Edgar Wallace Souvenir out of print.

The old movies are repeated here and there, but somehow
's not like once is ...







So who gets to the series? ...
The Dark Eyes of London, The Hunchback of Soho.
The door with seven locks ... and? Who knows more?
The Witcher, right ... and the stool ... and the forger of London and the
gang of terror ... and ... and ... and




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