''Coffin from Hong Kong'' (german: Ein Sarg aus Hongkong) is a 1964 West German

thriller film Thriller film, also known as suspense film or suspense thriller, is a broad film genre that evokes excitement and suspense in the audience. The suspense element found in most films' plots is particularly exploited by the filmmaker in this genre ...

directed by

Manfred R. Köhler ''Manfred R. Köhler'' born March 8, 1927, in Freiberg, Germany died 1991 was a German Dubbing (filmmaking), dubbing director who graduated to being a screenwriter and film director specialising in action films and popular entertainment in the 1960 ...

and starring

Heinz Drache Heinz Drache (; 9 February 1923 – 3 April 2002) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 40 films between 1953 and 2002. He was born in Essen, Germany and died in Berlin, Germany of lung cancer. Selected filmography * '' Once I ...

Elga Andersen Elga Andersen (née Helga Hymen or Hymmen) (2 February 1935 – 7 December 1994) was a German actress and singer. She starred in more than one dozen French films in the 1950s and 1960s and also debuted as a recording artist in the 1950s. She per ...

and

Ralf Wolter Ralf Wolter (26 November 1926 – 14 October 2022) was a German stage and screen actor. Wolter appeared in nearly 220 films and television series in his over 60 years as a character actor. Life and career Wolter began his long career on the B ...

. It is based on the 1962 novel of the same title by

James Hadley Chase James Hadley Chase (24 December 1906 – 6 February 1985) was an English writer. While his birth name was René Lodge Brabazon Raymond, he was well known by his various pseudonyms, including James Hadley Chase, James L. Docherty, Raymond ...

. The film's sets were designed by the

art director Art director is the title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, film industry, film and television, the Internet, and video games. It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and ...

Nino Borghi.

Location shooting Location shooting is the shooting of a film or television production in a real-world setting rather than a sound stage or backlot. The location may be interior or exterior. The filming location may be the same in which the story is set (for exam ...

took place in

Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China ( abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delt ...

and

London London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a majo ...

Cast

as Nelson Ryan *

as Stella *

as Bob Tooly *

Sabine Sesselmann Sabine Sesselmann, or Sabina Sesselmann (13 August 1936 – 1 March 1998) was a German film actress. Filmography External links * 1936 births 1998 deaths German film actresses 20th-century German actresses {{Germany-film-ac ...

as Janet West *

Angela Yu Chien Angela Yu Chien (Chinese: 于倩) (1942-2004)Hong Kong CinemagicAngela Yu Chien/ref> was a China-born Hong Kong actress. Biography Angela Yu Chien was born in Beijing. She moved to Taiwan with her family at the age of five. In 1960, she moved to ...

as Lee Lai * Tommy Ray as Inspector Chang *

Monika John Monika may refer to: People * Monika (given name) Films and video games * ''Monika'' (1938 film), a German film * ''Monika'' (1974 film), an Italian film Music * ''Monika'' (opera), a 1937 opera by Nico Dostal * Monika Christodoulou, a Greek ...

as Miss Dickens *

Greta Chi Greta Chi (born Chi Ke Ping; Copenhagen, Denmark), is an actress who was active in the 1960s and 1970s in the U.S. Biography The daughter of a Han Chinese, Chinese diplomat father and a German people, German mother, she had some cachet as an " ...

as Jo Ann Jefferson * Angela Bo as Yu Pei * Henri Guégan as Fighter * Pierre Richard as Henry Gilbert * Michael Bulmer as Mr. Belling * René Scheibli as Anthony *

Willy Birgel Willy Birgel (19 September 1891 – 29 December 1973), born Wilhelm Maria Birgel, was a German theatre and film actor. Career Birgel began his acting career before World War I on the stage in his native city of Cologne, and came to movies ra ...

as William Jefferson

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* 1964 films 1960s thriller films German thriller films West German films 1960s German-language films Films directed by Manfred R. Köhler Films based on works by James Hadley Chase Films based on British novels Films set in London Films set in Hong Kong Films shot in London Films shot in Hong Kong Constantin Film films 1960s German films {{1960s-thriller-film-stub