The Avenger (1960 film)

The Avenger
German film poster for The Avenger
Directed by	Karl Anton
Produced by	Kurt Ulrich Heinz Willeg
Written by	Edgar Wallace Gustav Kampendonk Rudolf Katscher
Starring	Heinz Drache Klaus Kinski
Music by	Peter Sandloff
Cinematography	Willi Sohm
Edited by	Walter von Bonhorst
Distributed by	Europa-Filmverleih AG
Release dates	5 August 1960 (1960-08-05)
Running time	99 minutes
Country	West Germany
Language	German

The Avenger (German: Der Rächer) is a 1960 West German crime film directed by Karl Anton and starring Heinz Drache.

Plot

A number of packaged disembodied heads have been in random areas of the English countryside. In each package is a letter to the police from the killer, who dubs himself "The Executioner." Each victim is seemingly unrelated to one another. When a Scotland Yard employee is killed, Detective Mike Brixan (Heinz Drache) of Special Branch is called in to investigate. The only clue is that a black, four-door sedan has been seen at the scene of the crime, and that the typewriter that the letters have been written on have two offset letters.

When Ruth Sanders (Ina Duscha), the niece of the man killed and the last person to see him alive, is located as an extra working on location, Brixan discovers a page of a script that has been written on the same typewriter as the Executioner's letters. Consequently, Brixan believes that the Executioner is among the cast, crew, or parties involved in the film shoot.

Cast

• Heinz Drache as Michael Brixan
• Ingrid van Bergen as Stella Mendoza
• Benno Sterzenbach as Sir Gregory Penn
• Ina Duscha as Ruth Sanders
• Ludwig Linkmann as Henry Longvale
• Siegfried Schürenberg as Major Staines
• Klaus Kinski as Lorenz Voss
• Rainer Brandt as Reggie Conolly
• Friedrich Schoenfelder as Jack Jackson (as Friedrich Schönfelder)
• Al Hoosmann as Bhag (as Al Hoosman)
• Maria Litto as Malaiische Tänzerin
• Franz-Otto Krüger as Regie-Assistent Frankie
• Rainer Penkert as Kameramann
• Albert Bessler as Zeitungsmann

See also

• Klaus Kinski filmography

External links

• The Avenger at IMDb