The Ringer (1932 film)

The Ringer
The Ringer
	DVD cover
Directed by	Martin Frič; Karel Lamač
Written by	Edgar Wallace (novel) ; Knut Borries; Gigotte Walter
Produced by	Karel Lamač
Starring	Paul Richter ; Maria Matray ; Wera Engels
Cinematography	Otto Heller
Edited by	Ella Ensink
Music by	Jara Beneš; Artur Guttmann
Production; company	Ondra-Lamac-Film
Distributed by	Süd-Film
Release date	22 July 1932;
Running time	88 minutes
Countries	Austria; Germany
Language	German

The Ringer (German: Der Hexer) is a 1932 Austrian-German mystery film directed by Martin Frič and Karel Lamač and starring Paul Richter, Maria Matray and Wera Engels.^[1] It is a screen adaptation of Edgar Wallace's 1925 novel The Ringer.^[2] 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.

Synopsis

A master of disguise, the notorious "Ringer" has returned to London and is sending threatening messages to the criminal Maurice Meister. Inspector Wenbury of Scotland Yard is deputed to capture the elusive Ringer before he is able to murder Meister.

Cast

Paul Richter as Inspektor Wenbury
Maria Matray as Mary Lenley
Carl Walther Meyer as John Lenley
Wera Engels as Cora Ann Milton
Fritz Rasp as Maurice Meister
Paul Henckels as Hauptinspektor Bliss
Leopold Kramer as Polizeiarzt Dr. Lomond
Karl Etlinger as Sam Hackitt
Karl Forest as Oberst Walford
Franz Schafheitlin as Wachtmeister Carter

Production

It is Lamač's second adaptation from a novel by Wallace, after The Squeaker, the year before,^[3] both being the first sound film adaptations of Wallace books in German cinema.^[4]

References

^ "Der Hexer". csfd.cz. Retrieved 23 January 2011.
^ Bergfelder p.145
^ Bock, ans-Michael; Bergfelder, im (1 September 2009). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-0-85745-565-9.
^ The Spectator. Division of Critical Studies of the School of Cinema-Television, University of Southern California. 1993.

Bibliography

Bergfelder, Tim. International Adventures: German Popular Cinema and European Co-Productions in the 1960s. Berghahn Books, 2005.

External links

The Ringer at IMDb

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[csfd.cz-1] "Der Hexer". csfd.cz. Retrieved 23 January 2011.

[2] Bergfelder p.145

[3] Bock, ans-Michael; Bergfelder, im (1 September 2009). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-0-85745-565-9.

[4] The Spectator. Division of Critical Studies of the School of Cinema-Television, University of Southern California. 1993.

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