Perpetrator Wanted

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.

• Carl Heinz WolffDirector
• Rudolph CartierScreenplay
• Egon EisScreenplay

• Paul HenckelsKonsul Lychner
• Gerda MaurusVera - seine Tochter
• Karl Ludwig DiehlDr. Gregor, Redakteur
• Fritz OdemarDorner, Diener
• Harry HardtWittenhagen, Kriminalkommissar
• Ernst BehmerSchränker-Ede
• Rosa ValettiNachbarin
• Gustav RickeltArzt
• Julius E. HerrmannBachmann, Nachtredakteur
• Wanda RothaLilly Meißner
• Harry FrankDr. Wiese, Verteidiger
• Fritz SchroeterKriminalassistent