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The Curse of the Yellow Snake

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The Curse of the Yellow Snake
Directed byFranz Josef Gottlieb
Written by
Based onThe Yellow Snake by Edgar Wallace
Produced by
Starring
CinematographySiegfried Hold
Edited byWalter Wischniewsky
Music byRaimund Rosenberger
Production
company
Distributed byConstantin Film
Release date
  • 22 February 1963 (1963-02-22)
Running time
98 minutes
CountryWest Germany
LanguageGerman

The Curse of the Yellow Snake (German: Der Fluch der gelben Schlange) is a 1963 West German crime thriller film directed by Franz Josef Gottlieb and starring Joachim Fuchsberger, Brigitte Grothum and Pinkas Braun.[1] It is based on the 1926 novel The Yellow Snake by Edgar Wallace. It was made as part of a series of films based on Wallace's work, made either by CCC Film or the rival Rialto.

It was shot at the Spandau Studios in Berlin and on location in London. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Hans Jürgen Kiebach and Ernst Schomer.

Cast

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References

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  1. ^ Bergfelder p.254

Bibliography

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  • Bergfelder, Tim. International Adventures: German Popular Cinema and European Co-Productions in the 1960s. Berghahn Books, 2005.
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