Perpetrator Wanted(1931)

movie - first aired/released 1931-03-12 - 85 min - audience 5.9

Crime

Directed by Carl Heinz Wolff

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.