''Hotel der toten Gäste'' is a 1965

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directed by Eberhard Itzenplitz and starring

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Karin Dor Karin Dor (, born Kätherose Derr; 22 February 1938 – 6 November 2017) was a German actress. She was famous to international audiences for her role as Bond girl Helga Brandt in the James Bond film '' You Only Live Twice'' (1967) and her appear ...

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Wolfgang Kieling Wolfgang Kieling (16 March 1924 – 7 October 1985) was a German actor. Biography In films since childhood in his native Germany, Kieling appeared in a few American films, notably in Alfred Hitchcock's ''Torn Curtain'' (1966), where he play ...

and Elke Sommer.BFI.org
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, where one of the guests has been murdered. The film was shot in

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Cast

as Barney Blair *

as Gilly Powell *

as Larry Cornell * Hans Nielsen as Inspector Forbesa *

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as Lucy Balmore *

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as Ruth Cornell *

Claus Biederstaedt Claus Biederstaedt (28 June 1928 – 18 June 2020) was a German actor. He studied in Hamburg and began his career working with Joseph Offenbach. Among the actors for whom he dubbed were Yves Montand, Peter Falk, Marlon Brando, Vittorio Gassma ...

as Morton Marlowe *

Monika Peitsch 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 Agnes Green * Ady Berber as Teddy *

Enrique Guitart Enric Guitart i Matas (Barcelona, 1 May 1909 – 30 November 1999), better known as simply Enric Guitart, or Enrique Guitart in Spanish circles, was a Catalan and Spanish stage and film actor. He appeared in around forty films during his career. H ...

as J.J. Frank * Manuel Collado as Barutti *

as Jack Courtney *

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as Bucci *

Panos Papadopulos Panos Papadopulos (Greek language, Greek: Πάνος Παπαδόπουλος; 1 August 1920, in Giresun, Kerassus, Ottoman Empire – 18 February 2001, in Munich) was a Greek actor. Selected filmography * ''Hello, Fraulein!'' (1949) – Musike ...

as Janos Kovacs * Elke Sommer as herself (singing: ''Ich sage "no"'') *

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as herself (singing: ''In Athen gibt es ein Wiedersehn'')

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* 1965 films 1960s thriller films 1960s musical films German thriller films German musical films West German films 1960s German-language films Films set in Italy 1960s German films {{1960s-thriller-film-stub