''The Hunchback of Soho'' (german: Der Bucklige von Soho) is a 1966 West German

crime film Crime films, in the broadest sense, is a film genre inspired by and analogous to the crime fiction literary genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and its detection. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine ...

directed by Alfred Vohrer and starring

Günther Stoll Günther Stoll (Duisburg, 18 August 1924 – Gelsenkirchen, 10 January 1977) was a German actor. Partial filmography * ''Liebe, wie die Frau sie wünscht'' (1957) .... Toni * ''Epitafios gia ehthrous kai filous'' (1965) .... Captain Ivanov * ' ...

, Pinkas Braun and

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.Bock & Bergfelder p. 253 It was part of

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's long-running group of Edgar Wallace adaptations, and was the first in the series to be shot in Eastmancolor. It was made at the Spandau Studios and on location in

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and

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Plot

Scotland Yard Scotland Yard (officially New Scotland Yard) is the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police, the territorial police force responsible for policing Greater London's 32 boroughs, but not the City of London, the square mile that forms London's ...

investigate a series of murders at a

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which is now being used as a girls school.

Cast

as Inspektor Hopkins *

as Wanda Merville * Pinkas Braun as Alan Davis * Eddi Arent as Reverend David * Siegfried Schürenberg as Sir John *

Agnes Windeck Agnes Windeck (; 27 March 1888 – 28 September 1975) was a German theatre and film actress. She appeared in more than 50 films between 1939 and 1973. She was born in Hamburg and started her career at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in 1904. Sh ...

as Lady Marjorie Perkins *

Gisela Uhlen Gisela Uhlen (16 May 1919 – 16 January 2007) was a German film actress and occasional screen writer. Biography Uhlen was born Gisela Friedlinde Schreck (German national library entry) in Leipzig, Germany as fourth child of Luise Frieda and ...

as Mrs. Tyndal *

Hubert von Meyerinck Hubert "Hubsi" von Meyerinck (23 August 1896 – 13 May 1971) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 280 films between 1921 and 1970. Biography Meyerinck was born in Potsdam, Brandenburg, the son of Friedrich von Meyerinck (1858� ...

as General Edward Perkins *

Uta Levka Uta Levka (born 1942) is a former German film and television actress active during the 1960s and early 1970s. She was discovered by the actress Maria Schell while working at the Bavaria Studios in Munich and appeared in a succession of glamorous ...

as Gladys Gardner *

Suzanne Roquette Suzanne Roquette (30 August 1942 – 28 May 2020) was a German actress. She is best known for her role as Main Mission Operative Tanya Alexander in Year One of the science fiction television series '' Space: 1999''. Space: 1999 costar Prentis Hanc ...

as Laura *

Joachim Teege Joachim Teege (November 30, 1925 – November 19, 1969) was a German actor. Selected filmography * ''The Adventures of Fridolin'' (1948) - Heini Bock * ''Und wieder 48'' (1948) - Reisender * '' The Staircase'' (1950) - Herbert Ehrke * ''The Merry ...

as Lawyer Harold Stone *

Hilde Sessak Hilde Sessak (27 July 1915 – 17 April 2003) was a German actress who appeared in more than ninety film and television series during her career. She appeared in a number of films during the Nazi era including ''Quax the Crash Pilot'' (1941).Reim ...

as Oberin *

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as Viola *

Kurt Waitzmann Kurt Waitzmann (30 January 1905 – 21 May 1985) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 50 films between 1937 and 1969. Selected filmography * ''Unternehmen Michael'' (1937) - Oblt. Weber * '' Urlaub auf Ehrenwort'' (1938) - Gef ...

as Sergeant * Ilse Pagé as Jane *

Albert Bessler Albert Bessler (15 February 1905 – 4 December 1975) was a German film actor. He appeared in 40 films between 1942 and 1975. He was born in Hamburg, Germany and died in West Berlin, West Germany. Partial filmography * ''Front Theatre'' (1 ...

as Butler Anthony *

Richard Haller Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from Old Frankish and is a compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' and ''*hardu-'' 'strong, brave, hardy', and it therefore means 'strong ...

as Der Bucklige

Reception

Dave Sindelar from ''Fantastic Movie Musings and Ramblings'' felt that by shooting the film in color it "stripped the series of one of its strengths", also criticizing the film's first half, score, and dubbing. Andrew Pragasam from ''The Spinning Image'' awarded the film six out of ten stars, noting the film's uneven narrative, but stated that its mixture of humor and horror was still entertaining.

References

Bibliography

* Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. ''The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema''. Berghahn Books, 2009.

External links

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