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Film: The Strangler of Blackmoor Castle

A German crime thriller from the year 1963 and one of the Edgar Wallace Films.

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.

Examples in this film:

Amoral Attorney: Tromby.
Antagonist Title
Ax Crazy: Anthony, who is ready to kill someone to get the diamonds
Calling Card: The Strangler leaves the letter M on his victims' foreheads.
Evil Detecting Dog: Castle's dogs start barking when the Strangler is nearby.
Evil Uncle: 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.
Henpecked Husband: The chief of Scotland Yard.
MacGuffin: The stolen diamonds.
Off with His Head!: The corpse of castle's gardener is found without his head.
Playing Possum: The Strangler pretends to be hurt to get the gardener who was sent to take the stolen diamonds to .
Red Herring Mole
Red Right Hand: One of Lucius's fingers is missing and the Strangler seems to share this trait.
Scotland Yard
Secret Path: Blackmoor Castle was a long time ago owned by a robber who made lot of secret tunnels within it.
Shoot Out the Lock
The X of Y