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Edgar Wallace Films
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The thrillers of the British novelist Edgar Wallace became very popular in Germany between the world wars, partly thanks to a successful ad campaign based on the slogan "Es ist unmöglich, von Edgar Wallace nicht gefesselt zu werden!" ("It is impossible not to be captivated by Edgar Wallace!"). In 1927 the first of them was adapted into a (silent) German film, and four more followed until 1934, but then the franchise dried up. Until the late 1950s, German film producers would not touch the genre again.In 1959 the Danish firm Rialto Film produced Der Frosch mit der Maske, the first post-World War II Edgar Wallace film, for the West German distributor Constantin Film. It became a surprise hit and led to Rialto setting up a West German affiliate firm and buying the exclusive rights for all Wallace novels to produce more. All in all, Rialto produced 32 Edgar Wallace movies, and other firms also jumped on the bandwagon, producing six more Wallace-themed crime and detective films. Most were produced by Horst Wendlandt, the man also behind another very successful German film franchise of the 1960s, the Karl May Westerns. The Edgar Wallace franchise was looked on as lowbrow by most movie critics, but was very popular with the German public and the films continue to be shown on German television to this day.The films were produced on a comparatively small budget and thus were filmed not in England, where they are set, but in West Germany, usually in Hamburg and its environs, the footage then intercut with stock establishing shots of places like Big Ben or Piccadilly Circus. The tone was often a bit tongue in cheek, and even some of the leading stars of West Germany's stages and screens liked to perform in an Edgar Wallace or two. From quite early, there was a tendency towards tongue-in-cheek comedy. The franchise was later parodied in Der Wixxer.The series had a number of stock characters and actors associated with it: | |
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Superhero: The titular masked archer of Der grüne Bogenschütze appears a bit like a dark and gritty version. But then Edgar Wallace's 1923 novel The Green Archer could have inspired Green Arrow. | |
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Stiff Upper Lip | |
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Stiff Upper Lip: Eddi Arent, usually. | |
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Fake Nationality: Usually Fake Brit, but also a few fake Americans and Australians. | |
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Catch-Phrase: "Hallo, hier spricht Edgar Wallace!" (Hello, Edgar Wallace speaking), usually from a telephone speaker just before the opening credits. | |
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Ten Little Murder Victims | |
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Ten Little Murder Victims: Again Das indische Tuch. | |
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Vigilante Man | |
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Vigilante Man: Der Hexer. | |
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Deliberately Monochrome | |
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Deliberately Monochrome: Before Der Bucklige von Soho. In some cases the films were black and white, but the actual titles were written e. g. with red letters. | |
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Malevolent Masked Men | |
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Malevolent Masked Men: A lot of the villains, such as the Frog With the Mask, would not look out of place in a superhero comic or film. | |
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Locked Room Mystery | |
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Locked Room Mystery: Das indische Tuch is a good example. | |
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Equal-Opportunity Evil | |
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Equal-Opportunity Evil: Die toten Augen von London features a gang of blind criminals. | |
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Beware the Nice Ones | |
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Beware the Nice Ones | |
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