Doctor Crippen Lives () is a 1958 West German crime film directed by Erich Engels and starring Elisabeth Müller, Peter van Eyck and Fritz Tillmann.Davidson & Hake p.237 It was made at the Wandsbek Studios of Real Film in Hamburg. The film's sets were designed by the art director Dieter Bartels.
The most successful film of all time of director Erich Engels was Doctor Crippen (1942), a film about Hawley Harvey Crippen. The 1958 film Doctor Crippen Lives has no relation to the 1942 film or to the case of Hawley Harvey Crippen.
Cast Elisabeth Müller as Fleur Blanchard Peter van Eyck as Kriminalkommissar Léon Ferrier Fritz Tillmann as Kriminalinspektor Steen Carl Lange as Aristide Coq, Buchhändler Günter Pfitzmann as Pierre, Kriminalassistent Inge Meysel as Delphine, Haushälterin Katharina Mayberg as Maja, malaisische Studentin Hans Zesch-Ballot as Prosecutor Robert Meyn as Chefinspektor Smith Hans Stiebner as Lung, chinesischer Steward Richard Münch as Reverend Bennet Werner Schumacher Manfred Steffen Howard Vernon Heinz Klingenberg Fred Raul as Benno Gellenbeck Friedrich Schütter as Polizist Hermann Kner Günther Jerschke as Gendarm Karl Heinz Wüpper Reiner Brönneke
References
Bibliography Davidson, John & Hake, Sabine. Framing the Fifties: Cinema in a Divided Germany. Berghahn Books, 2007.
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