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Doctor Crippen Lives
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Wikipedia article
{{Infobox film
| name = Doctor Crippen Lives
| image =Doctor Crippen Lives.jpg
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| director = Erich Engels
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| starring =
| music = Siegfried Franz
| cinematography = Albert Benitz
| editing = Alice Ludwig
| studio = Real Film
| distributor = Europa-Filmverleih
| released = 20 February 1958
| runtime = 88 minutes
| country = West Germany
| language = German
| budget =
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'Doctor Crippen Lives' is a 1958 West German crime film directed by Erich Engels and starring Elisabeth Mller, 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 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 Mller as Fleur Blanchard
* Peter van Eyck as Kriminalkommissar Lon Ferrier
* Fritz Tillmann as Kriminalinspektor Steen
* Carl Lange as Aristide Coq, Buchhndler
* Gnter Pfitzmann as Pierre, Kriminalassistent
* Inge Meysel as Delphine, Haushlterin
* Katharina Mayberg as Maja, malaisische Studentin
* Hans Zesch-Ballot as Prosecutor
* Robert Meyn as Chefinspektor Smith
* Hans Stiebner as Lung, chinesischer Steward
* Richard Mnch as Reverend Bennet
* Werner Schumacher
* Manfred Steffen
* Howard Vernon
* Heinz Klingenberg
* Fred Raul as
* Benno Gellenbeck
* Friedrich Schtter as Polizist
* Hermann Kner
* Gnther Jerschke as Gendarm
* Karl Heinz Wpper
* Reiner Brnneke
References
Bibliography
* Davidson, John & Hake, Sabine. 'Framing the Fifties: Cinema in a Divided Germany'. Berghahn Books, 2007.
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