The Indian Scarf

The Indian Scarf German Das indische Tuch is a 1963 West German crime film directed by Alfred Vohrer. It was part of a very successful series of German films based on the writings of Edgar Wallace and adapted from the 1931 play The Case of the Frightened Lady.

Das indische Tuch was part of a series of films based on works by Edgar Wallace made in the late 1950s and 1960s by producer Horst Wendlandt for Rialto Film. The script to the film was adapted first by Georg Hurdalek and then Harald G. Petersson from an original treatment by Egon Eis, written under the pen name of Trygve Larsen, that had not found the approval of the producer. At this stage, the film was to be called Der Unheimliche. The scripts were derived from the Edgar Wallace play The Frightened Lady. There were two previous film versions based on it, both British and called The Frightened Lady, made in 1932 and 1940. Of the three, Vohrers version was the one that deviated most from the original play. The story becomes a case of Zehn kleine Negerlein known today in English as Ten Little Indians, as the protagonists are killed off one by one. Unusually for a film of the series, even leading man Heinz Draches character comes under suspicion.Heinz Drache was cast for this film after having starred as the hero of a very successful TV production of Francis Durbridges The Scarf Das Halstuchde , which involved a similar modus operandi and was first aired in 1962. Several other actors, like Kinski, Arent and Schrenberg, had by that time become regulars in the film series. ........

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