The Red Circle

The Crimson Circle (German: Der rote Kreis) is a 1960 West German/Danish black and white crime film directed by Jürgen Roland and starring Renate Ewert, Klausjürgen Wussow and Karl-Georg Saebisch. It was an adaptation of the 1922 novel The Crimson Circle by the British writer Edgar Wallace. Plot Scotland Yard detectives pursue a ruthless league of blackmailers known as The Crimson Circle. Cast Renate Ewert as Thalia Drummond Klausjürgen Wussow as Derrick Yale Karl-Georg Saebisch as Inspector Parr Thomas Alder as Jack Beardmore Ernst Fritz Fürbringer as Sir Archibald Morton Erica Beer as Mrs. Carlyle Fritz Rasp as Froyant Eddi Arent as Sergeant Haggett Edith Mill as Lady Doringham Ulrich Beiger as Osborne Richard Lauffen as Marles Heinz Klevenow as Brabazon Alfred Schlageter as Mr Beardmore Panos Papadopulos as Sailor Selby Albert Watson as Sergeant Johnson Richard Grupe as James Karl-Heinz Peters as Executioner Friedrich Schütter as Henry Charles Lightman (and the masked head of the Crimson Circle) Alf Marholm as Prison warden Günter Hauer as Conductor Jürgen Roland as Policeman Production A previous German/British adaptation of the novel The Crimson Circle by Edgar Wallace was made in 1929. Other versions were produced in the UK in 1922 and in 1936.