Whiteface

May 4, 2002

1h 32m

★ 4.0

Overview

After a long time, a circus is back in the area of Tidal Basin and already the strange phantom has reappeared: the white clown! He robbed banks and stores without a system and disappeared without a trace. Lane and Higgins, together with the worn-out journalist Shapiro, hunt for the mysterious culprit in the dense London fog.

Genres

TV Movie

Crime

Production Companies

RTL

Rialto Film

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Cast

Inspector Higgins

Gunter Berger

Barbara Lane

Mariella Ahrens

Sir John

Eddi Arent

Eddie Shapiro

Horst Bollmann

Jury chairman

Christel Peters

Dr. Marford

Christian Grashof

Ann Pattison

Rosalind Baffoe

Clown

Pello

Paul Norris

Victor Schefé

Jacqueline Griffith

Bojana Golenac

Baxter

Michael Gitter

Homer Jackson

Tyron Ricketts

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