TMDb5.9 / 10

Perpetrator Wanted (1931)

Name: Perpetrator Wanted
Director: Carl Heinz Wolff
Genre: Crime
Released: 1931-03-12
Duration: 85 min
Rating: 5.9
Cast: Paul Henckels, Gerda Maurus, Karl Ludwig Diehl, Fritz Odemar, Harry Hardt

85 min · Germany · Dir. Carl Heinz Wolff

Crime 1931 movies

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.