The Devil Came from Akasava

Mar 5, 1971

1h 24m

★ 4.6

Overview

A mineral is discovered which can turn metal to gold or humans into zombies. When the mineral is stolen, secret agents are sent in to get the mineral back!

Genres

Adventure

Thriller

Production Companies

Fenix Film

CCC Filmkunst

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Cast

Rex Forrester

Fred Williams

Jane Morgan

Soledad Miranda

Dr. Andrew Thorrsen

Horst Tappert

Ingrid Thorsson

Ewa Strömberg

Sir Philip

Siegfried Schürenberg

Lord Kingsley

Walter Rilla

Lady Abigail Kingsley

Blandine Ebinger

Valet Humphrey

Howard Vernon

Dr. Henry

Paul Müller

Irving Lambert

Alberto Dalbés

Tino Celli

Jesús Franco

Inspector

Rudolf Hertzog

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.

7.2

The Terrible People

Aug 25, 1960

The ghost of a hanged man returns to fulfill his promise. All of his accusers must die!

6.7

The Sinister Monk

Dec 17, 1965

A hooded serial killer finds a novel way to murder his victims--he lashes them to death with a whip. The police try to track him down before any more murders occur.

5.1

Death Drums Along the River

Dec 20, 1963

A British colonial policeman in Africa investigates a murder in a hospital up river.

4.0

Die Katze von Kensington

Feb 6, 1996

Whenever a criminal is killed in London, a black Jaguar is nearby, with a white cat always sitting in the passenger seat. Inspector Higgins and Inspector Lane find a joker card on all the victims. Their investigation leads them to a diamond smuggling ring.

6.1

The Hunchback of Soho

Sep 6, 1966

A woman is kidnapped and her identity is stolen by criminals attempting to collect her inheritance.

5.0

Das Haus der toten Augen

Apr 27, 2002

Is a home for the blind hiding a murderer's nest? Shortly before his myste-rious death, millionaire Stuart changed his will and disinherited the local home for the blind. Inspector Higgins suspects that something is not right there.

6.5

The Inn on the River

Sep 28, 1962

A serial killer named The Shark is terrorizing London by killing his victims with a speargun and then, dressed in a scruba-diver's wetsuit, using the city's sewer tunnels to make his getaway.

5.2

The Corpse Packs His Bags

Oct 1, 1972

A London slasher pack the suitcases of his victims before stabbing them to death in this adaptation of Edgar Wallace's 'Secret of the Black Suitcases.'

6.2

The Green Archer

Feb 2, 1961

The country estate of American emigre Abel Bellamy is haunted by the ghost of the Green Archer, a 14th century Robin Hood type figure who terrorised the former lords of the manor. Now, with the gangster coming home on vaguely defined business and his niece Valerie arriving with her adoptive father to take up residence in the adjacent mansion, much to Bellamy's annoyance, the archer has returned. Who is he and what does he want?

5.2

The Forger of London

Aug 15, 1961

A ring of counterfeiters is flooding the country with phony money, and suspicion falls upon a wealthy playboy who may--or may not--have amnesia.

0.0

The Case of the Frightened Lady

Jan 1, 1983

A woman tries to protect her family's name when one relative becomes a murderer.

4.0

Die vier Gerechten

Apr 20, 2002

Lord Paddington, an honorable member of society, is blown up with a small tennis ball. "Die vier Gerechten" are not of this opinion, however: "Sentenced to death and executed for countless crimes" they leave at the scene. More honorable personalities must die before the perfume Higgins betrays the murderer and exposes the honorable personalities as heads of the organized trafficking of girls.

6.0

The Curse of the Hidden Vault

Apr 30, 1964

Mobsters conspire to loot another criminal's treasure secured in an enormous booby-trapped vault.

5.6

The Devil's Daffodil

Jul 20, 1961

A Chinese detective breaks up a drug smuggling ring and tries to find the "Daffodil Killer". The drug smugglers had devised the ingenious method of smuggling heroin from Hong Kong in the stems of daffodils.

3.5

Das Schloss des Grauens

Apr 6, 2002

There is good reason for Sir Douglas Wonderly to summon the family and a lawyer to his stately home. He wants to announce a change in his will. At the same time, a dangerous mental patient escapes from a nearby psychiatric ward. Higgins and Lane are put on his trail. But the arrest of the psychopath proves to be extremely difficult. Shortly thereafter, a mysterious hooded man is on the loose in the castle. He frightens Sir Wonderly so much that the old man suffers a shock and falls into a coma. But that's not all: the will suddenly disappears and two sons are murdered. Sir John personally intervenes to solve the case with Higgins and Lane.

4.0

Die unheimlichen Briefe

Apr 12, 2002

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.

4.0

Whiteface

May 4, 2002

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.

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