Perpetrator Wanted

A dedicated editor, who is engaged to the daughter of a wealthy senator thrills her father with a lecture about convictions based on circumstantial evidence. When a corpse with a disfigured face is found in the house of the senator, evidence points to the editor. An entertaining thriller with a fairly intricate plot and some critical comments on the practice of the law. Based on the novel "Der geschlossene Ring" by Frank Arnau.

Director: Carl Heinz Wolff

Cast: Paul Henckels, Gerda Maurus, Karl Ludwig Diehl, Fritz Odemar, Harry Hardt, Ernst Behmer, Rosa Valetti, Gustav Rickelt

Audience-only score — full critic data not yet in the ReelXO vault.