Perpetrator Wanted

1931 • 1h 25m • Crime

5.9(7 votes)

A dedicated editor, who is engaged to the daughter of a wealthy senator thrills her father with a lecture about convictions based on circumstantial evidence. When a corpse with a disfigured face is found in the house of the senator, evidence points to the editor. An entertaining thriller with a fairly intricate plot and some critical comments on the practice of the law. Based on the novel "Der geschlossene Ring" by Frank Arnau.

Director

Carl Heinz Wolff

Writers

Egon Eis, Rudolph Cartier

Status

Released