The Strangler of Blackmoor Castle



A German crime thriller from the year 1963 and one of the Edgar Wallace Films.

One night at Blackmoor Castle, a masked man appears before its owner Lucius Clark and demands that he hands over a batch of diamonds he stole some time ago. Clark refuses, and as he tries to sell the diamonds, the masked man hinders the process by killing people around the castle.


 * Amoral Attorney: Tromby.
 * Antagonist Title
 * Ax Crazy: Anthony, who is ready to kill someone to get the diamonds
 * Calling Card: The Strangler leaves the letter M on his victims' foreheads.
 * Evil-Detecting Dog: Castle's dogs start barking when the Strangler is nearby.
 * Evil Uncle: Defied. When Anthony suggests to Lucius that "an accident" should befall on his niece so they'd get her money, he is enraged and socks Anthony to the jaw.
 * Henpecked Husband: The chief of Scotland Yard.
 * MacGuffin: The stolen diamonds.
 * Off With His Head: The corpse of castle's gardener is found without his head.
 * Playing Possum: The Strangler pretends to be hurt to get the gardener who was sent to take the stolen diamonds to.
 * Red Herring Mole
 * Red Right Hand: One of Lucius's fingers is missing and the Strangler seems to share this trait.
 * Scotland Yard
 * Secret Path: Blackmoor Castle was a long time ago owned by a robber who made lot of secret tunnels within it.
 * Shoot Out the Lock
 * The X of Y