Screenplay: Edgar Wallace

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Edgar Wallace. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


King Kong

1933 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Merian C. Cooper · Ernest B. Schoedsack

Cast Fay Wray · Robert Armstrong · Bruce Cabot · Noble Johnson

Plot While shooting a jungle movie on the remote Skull Island, filmmaker Denham and his crew stumble upon a prehistoric world populated by dinosaurs and giant snakes. The most dangerous and...

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7.3

30K votes

7.3

30K votes

King Kong

2005 · Movie · 187 min. · United States

Direction Peter Jackson

Cast Naomi Watts · Adrien Brody · Jack Black · Thomas Kretschmann

Plot Ann Darrow (Naomi Watts) is an actress who finds herself out of a job in Depression-era New York. Her luck changes when she meets Carl Denham (Jack Black), an entrepreneur,...

6.2

71K votes

6.2

71K votes

Das indische Tuch

1963 · Movie · 83 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

6.1

104 votes

6.1

104 votes

Die toten Augen von London

1961 · Movie · 95 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

6.0

163 votes

6.0

163 votes

The Ringer

1964 · Movie · 82 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Alfred Vohrer

Cast Joachim Fuchsberger · Heinz Drache · Sophie Hardy · Eddi Arent

Plot A supposedly respectable man is forced to murder his lovely secretary when she finds out too much about his real business, which is white slavery (forcing women into prostitution). The...

5.9

63 votes

5.9

63 votes

Again the Ringer (Latest Episodes of the Ringer)

1965 · Movie · 95 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Alfred Vohrer

Cast Heinz Drache · Barbara Rutting · Brigitte Horney · Eddi Arent

Plot The puzzling murder of Lord Curtain, one of London's richest men, is the prelude to a series of murders, in which the heirs of his stately fortune are killed. Since...

5.8

37 votes

5.8

37 votes

The Door with Seven Locks

1962 · Movie · 95 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Alfred Vohrer

Cast Heinz Drache · Gisela Uhlen · Sabine Sesselmann · Hans Nielsen

Plot This West German production is the second film based on the Edgar Wallace novel of the same name (the first was the 1940 Chamber of Horrors). The story -- which...

5.8

99 votes

5.8

99 votes

Der Frosch mit der Maske

1959 · Movie · 87 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

5.8

59 votes

5.8

59 votes

The Dark Eyes of London

1939 · Movie · 76 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Walter Summers

Cast Bela Lugosi · Hugh Williams · Greta Gynt · Edmon Ryan

Plot Scotland Yard inspector Larry Holt is asked to investigate the case of five bodies that have been found in The Thames apparently drowned, during the last eight months. The investigation...

5.8

154 votes

5.8

154 votes

The Trixxer

2004 · Movie · 85 min. · Germany

Direction Tobi Baumann

Cast Oliver Kalkofe · Bastian Pastewka · Tanja Wenzel · Olli Dittrich

Plot A comedy about the mysterious UK 'Black White' Castle, from which the powerful Earl of Cockwood continues to go about his evil dealings. But then a couple from Saxony get...

5.6

35 votes

5.6

35 votes

Sanders of the River

1935 · Movie · 98 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Zoltan Korda

Cast Leslie Banks · Paul Robeson · Nina Mae McKinney · Martin Walker

Plot British District Officer in Nigeria in the 1930's rules his area strictly but justly, and struggles with gun-runners and slavers with the aid of a loyal native chief.

5.6

45 votes

5.6

45 votes

The Sinister Monk

1965 · Movie · 87 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Harald Reinl

Cast Karin Dor · Harald Leipnitz · Siegfried Lowitz · Siegfried Schürenberg

Plot Disaster lies over Castle Darkwood. While the castle owner is still fighting his imminent death, the family is already fighting over his heir. Shortly before his death, he changes his...

5.6

50 votes

5.6

50 votes

The Forger of London

1961 · Movie · 90 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Harald Reinl

Cast Siegfried Lowitz · Karin Dor · Hellmut Lange · Walter Rilla

Plot A ring of counterfeiters is flooding the country with phony money, and suspicion falls upon a wealthy playboy who may, or may not, have amnesia.

5.6

65 votes

5.6

65 votes

The Crimson Circle

1960 · Movie · 92 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Jürgen Roland

Cast Renate Ewert · Klausjürgen Wussow · Karl-Georg Saebisch · Thomas Alder

Plot A brutal gang, which calls itself "Crimson Circle", blackmails the high-society of London. Whoever does not follow their demands is murdered. Unsuccessful Superintendent Parr (Karl George Saebisch) remains without a...

5.6

79 votes

5.6

79 votes

Room 13

1964 · Movie · 89 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Harald Reinl

Cast Joachim Fuchsberger · Karin Dor · Richard Häussler · Walter Rilla

Plot A serial-killer is murdering the ladies of a night club. Detective Gray is seeking for the killer but can only find a lot of gangsters. And the killer is about...

5.6

35 votes

5.6

35 votes

Die Bande des Schreckens

1960 · Movie · 88 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

5.6

52 votes

5.6

52 votes

King Kong

1976 · Movie · 135 min. · United States

Direction John Guillermin

Cast Jeff Bridges · Jessica Lange · Charles Grodin · John Randolph

Plot The owner of the oil company Petrox Corporation, Fred Wilson, invests all his possessions searching oil in an unexplored island. The vessel leaves Surubaya, in Indonesia, with the stowaway Jack...

5.4

6K votes

5.4

6K votes

The Squeaker

1963 · Movie · 89 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Alfred Vohrer

Cast Heinz Drache · Barbara Rutting · Günter Pfitzmann · Eddi Arent

Plot The German The Squeaker is the third film version of the Edgar Wallace mystery novel of the same name. The title character is an omnipotent "fence" who has cornered the...

5.4

67 votes

5.4

67 votes

The Strange Countess

1961 · Movie · 95 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

5.4

40 votes

5.4

40 votes

The Puzzle of the Red Orchid (The Secret of the Red Orchid)

1962 · Movie · 84 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Helmut Ashley

Cast Christopher Lee · Adrian Hoven · Marisa Mell · Klaus Kinski

Plot Two rivalling American gangster gangs appear in London and blackmail wealthy Englishmen. These incidents trigger one of Londons bloodiest crime events and Scottland Yard is in constant pursuit of the...

5.4

43 votes

5.4

43 votes