The Monk with the Whip

The Monk with the Whip
The Monk with the Whip
Directed by	Alfred Vohrer
Written by	Edgar Wallace (novel); Herbert Reinecker;
Produced by	Horst Wendlandt
Starring	Joachim Fuchsberger; Uschi Glas; Grit Boettcher;
Cinematography	Karl Löb
Edited by	Jutta Hering
Music by	Martin Böttcher
Production; company	Rialto Film
Distributed by	Constantin Film
Release date	11 August 1967
Running time	88 minutes
Country	West Germany
Language	German

The Monk with the Whip (German: Der Mönch mit der Peitsche) is a 1967 West German mystery thriller film directed by Alfred Vohrer and starring Joachim Fuchsberger, Uschi Glas and Grit Boettcher.^[1] It is inspired by the 1926 novel The Black Abbot and subsequent 1927 play The Terror by Edgar Wallace which also served as the basis for the 1965 film The Sinister Monk. It was made as part of a long-running series of film adaptations of his work produced by Rialto Film.

The film's sets were designed by the art director Walter Kutz and Wilhelm Vorwerg. It was shot at the Spandau Studios and on location in West Berlin.

The film was released in the U.S. as The College Girl Murders.^[2]

Cast[]

Joachim Fuchsberger as Inspektor Higgins
Uschi Glas as Ann Portland
Grit Boettcher as Betty Falks
Konrad Georg as Keyston
Harry Riebauer as Mark Denver
Tilly Lauenstein as Harriet Foster
Ilse Pagé as Sekretärin
Siegfried Rauch as Frank Keeney
Claus Holm as Glenn Powers
Günter Meisner as Greaves
as Bannister
as Harrison
Jan Hendriks as Brent
Rudolf Schündler as Sergeant Hanfield
as Cress Bartling
Tilo von Berlepsch as Polizeiarzt
Kurt Waitzmann as Carrington
Suzanne Roquette as Mary Houston
as June Bell
as Mildred Miller
Ewa Strömberg as Pam Walsbury
as Busschaffner
as Winston Robson
Siegfried Schürenberg as Sir John

References[]

^ Bergfelder p.256
^ "College Girl Murders". MPI Home Video. Retrieved 2020-10-01.

Bibliography[]

Bergfelder, Tim. International Adventures: German Popular Cinema and European Co-Productions in the 1960s. Berghahn Books, 2005.
Pitts, Michael R. Thrills Untapped: Neglected Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Films, 1928-1936. McFarland, 2018.

External links[]

The Monk with the Whip at IMDb

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[1] Bergfelder p.256

[2] "College Girl Murders". MPI Home Video. Retrieved 2020-10-01.

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