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| 3 | A 1963 German crime thriller directed by Harlad Reinl, and one of the Film/EdgarWallaceFilms. |
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| 5 | One night at Blackmoor Castle, a masked man appears before its owner Lucius Clark and demands that he hands over a batch of diamonds he stole some time ago. Clark refuses, and as he tries to sell the diamonds, the masked man hinders the process by killing people around the castle. |
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| 8 | !!Tropes in this film: |
| 9 | %%* AmoralAttorney: Tromby. |
| 10 | * AntagonistTitle: Combined with TheXOfY to keep the antagonist's identity hidden. |
| 11 | * AxCrazy: Anthony, who is ready to kill to get the diamonds. |
| 12 | * CallingCard: The Strangler leaves the letter M on his victims' foreheads. |
| 13 | * EvilDetectingDog: Castle's dogs start barking whenever the Strangler is nearby. |
| 14 | * EvilUncle: Defied. When Anthony suggests to Lucius that "an accident" should befall on his niece so they'd get her money, he is enraged and socks Anthony to the jaw. |
| 15 | %%* HenpeckedHusband: The chief of Scotland Yard. |
| 16 | * MacGuffin: The stolen diamonds. |
| 17 | * OffWithHisHead: The corpse of castle's gardener is found without his head. |
| 18 | * PlayingPossum: The Strangler lies on the ground pretending to be hurt to get the Clark's gardener (who was sent to take the stolen diamonds to his partner) to come closer. |
| 19 | %%* RedHerringMole |
| 20 | * RedRightHand: One of Lucius's fingers is missing and the Strangler seems to share this trait. |
| 21 | %%* UsefulNotes/ScotlandYard |
| 22 | * SecretPath: A robber owned the Blackmoor Castle long time ago, and he made sure that it has lot of secret tunnels within it. |
| 23 | %%* ShootOutTheLock |
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