The Curse of the Yellow Snake

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The Curse of the Yellow Snake
The Curse of the Yellow Snake.jpg
Directed byFranz Josef Gottlieb
Written by
  • Janne Furch
  • Franz Josef Gottlieb
Based onThe Yellow Snake by Edgar Wallace
Produced by
  • Artur Brauner
Starring
  • Joachim Fuchsberger
  • Brigitte Grothum
  • Pinkas Braun
CinematographySiegfried Hold
Edited byWalter Wischniewsky
Music by
Production
company
CCC Film
Distributed byConstantin Film
Release date
22 February 1963
Running time
98 minutes
CountryWest Germany
LanguageGerman

The Curse of the Yellow Snake (German: Der Fluch der gelben Schlange) is a 1963 West German crime thriller film directed by Franz Josef Gottlieb and starring Joachim Fuchsberger, Brigitte Grothum and Pinkas Braun.[1] It is based on the 1926 novel The Yellow Snake by Edgar Wallace. It was made as part of a series of films based on Wallace's work, made either by CCC Film or the rival Rialto.

It was shot at the Spandau Studios in Berlin and on location in London. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Hans Jürgen Kiebach and .

Cast[]

  • Joachim Fuchsberger as Clifford Lynn
  • Brigitte Grothum as Joan Bray
  • Pinkas Braun as Fing-Su / St. Clay
  • Doris Kirchner as Mabel Narth
  • Werner Peters as Stephan Narth
  • Charles Regnier as Major Spedwell
  • Claus Holm as Inspektor Frazer
  • Fritz Tillmann as Joe Bray
  • Eddi Arent as Samuel Carter
  • as Straßenkehrer

References[]

  1. ^ Bergfelder p.254

Bibliography[]

  • Bergfelder, Tim. International Adventures: German Popular Cinema and European Co-Productions in the 1960s. Berghahn Books, 2005.

External links[]

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