The second of what eventually became dozens of
krimis -- German crime pictures adapted from books by English novelist Edgar Wallace -- made in the 1960s and '70s and the only one produced by a company other than the Danish-based Rialto Film -- Kurt Ulrich Filmproduktion --
Der Racher revolves around a serial decapitator stalking a film crew.
Two women cycling on a pretty English country road open an abandoned box and find a human head inside. "The Avenger" ("Der Kopfsjager -- the headhunter -- in the original German) has claimed his 12th victim! Major Staines (soon-to-be krimi regular Siegfried Schurenberg) assigns detective Mi...
Released:
1960
Rated:
NR
Length:
99 mins