| The Avenger | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Karl Anton |
| Produced by | Kurt Ulrich Heinz Willeg |
| Written by | Edgar Wallace Gustav Kampendonk Rudolf Katscher |
| Starring | Heinz Drache |
| Music by | Peter Sandloff |
| Cinematography | Willi Sohm |
| Editing by | Walter von Bonhorst |
| Distributed by | Europa-Filmverleih AG (Germany) |
| Release date(s) | 5 August 1960 |
| 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.
Contents |
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.