Die unheimlichen Briefe

Apr 12, 2002

1h 30m

★ 4.0

Overview

Strange, rhymed advertisements in the TIMES unsettle three London gangsters - and rightly so, because soon the first of them are killed. The mysterious killer also catches a shady lawyer. Higgins and Lane find out that the key to the crimes is an unsolved diamond heist from jeweler Bolden. It looks like those involved are fighting over the loot. Eventually, it turns out that the "robbery" was actually a set-up insurance scam that Bolden was personally behind and that killed his employee. Shortly before the last survivor is sent to the afterlife, Higgins and Lane are able to confront the "invisible" murderer.

Genres

Crime

TV Movie

Production Companies

RTL

Rialto Film

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Cast

Inspektor Higgins

Gunter Berger

Barbara Lane

Mariella Ahrens

Sir John

Eddi Arent

Ann Pattison

Rosalind Baffoe

William Bolden

Udo Schenk

Peggy Lynch

Julia Richter

Lady Upperworth

Helen Vita

Miss Thinwhister

Eva Ebner

Stephen Scott

Klaus Lehmann

Ruth Bolden

Peggy Lukac

Tom Averil

H.H. Müller

Mr. Nelly

Georg Tryphon

When a wealthy man dies, his avaricious relatives look forward to inheriting all his money. However, he leaves a provision in his will that they all must spend a week together in his castle before they will be able to inherit anything. At the castle (which is cut off from the outside world), the relatives soon begin to be killed off one by one, each strangled with an Indian scarf.

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