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Creature with the Blue Hand

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Creature with the Blue Hand
Theatrical release poster
Directed byAlfred Vohrer[1]
Screenplay byHerbert Reinecker[1]
Based onThe Blue Hand
by Edgar Wallace[1]
Produced byHorst Wendlandt[1]
Starring
CinematographyErnst W. Kalinke[1]
Edited byJutta Hering[1]
Music byMartin Böttcher[1]
Production
company
Distributed byConstantin Film[1]
Release date
  • 28 April 1967 (1967-04-28)
Running time
87 minutes
CountryWest Germany[1]

Creature with the Blue Hand (German: Die blaue Hand) is a West German horror film directed by Alfred Vohrer and starring Harald Leipnitz, Klaus Kinski and Ilse Steppat.[1] It is based on the 1925 novel The Blue Hand by Edgar Wallace and was part of a long-running series of adaptations made by Rialto Film. The film's plot involves the police tracking a killer known as the Blue Hand. It was shot at the Spandau Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art director Walter Kutz and Wilhelm Vorwerg.

Cast

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Release

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Creature with the Blue Hand was released in 1967.[2] The film was bought by New World Pictures and issued as a double feature in the United States with Beast of the Yellow Night.[3] The film was later re-edited in 1987 with new gore inserts by producer Sam Sherman and released to home video as The Bloody Dead.[2]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "Die blaue Hand". Filmportal.de. Retrieved 25 October 2017.
  2. ^ a b Pitts, Michael R. (2004). Famous Movie Detectives III. Scarecrow Press. p. 41. ISBN 978-0-8108-3690-7.
  3. ^ Koetting, Christopher T (2009). Mind Warp!: The Fantastic True Story of Roger Corman's New World Pictures. Hemlock Books. p. 25. ISBN 978-0-9557774-1-7.

Bibliography

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