Not so much 'family gathering, haunted-house mystery' - although the phone lines get knocked out, early on - as 'family gathering, there's a killer among us mystery' , where, once the first unfortunate get's knocked off, it becomes quickly apparent to the remainder that one of them - being that there's a shared inheritance involved - is determined to kill the others.Your enjoyment of this type of film depends of course on how much of a fan you are, but especially on the quality of the ensemble playing and the quality of the 'dispatches', and I think it scores highly on both fronts.
"The indian scarf" was directed in 1963 by Alfred Vohrer , from a novel by Edgar Wallace. The murders were shot like future italian gialli, spoiled by few lousy german "comic" scenes (most with Heinz Drachi).
This is another German-language Edgar Wallace movie from the 1960s, over 50 years old, and as in some others of these Heinz Drache plays a main character. The cast is pretty good in general.
A rich man is bumped off and it is made to look like a heart attack. His possible heirs must spend 7 days in "peaceful coexistence" before his will is read.
Heinz Drache recently died. Reason enough to watch this one again.
Going to book tickets to see satirical comedian Jonathon Pie in March,I found out that an Edgar Wallace adaptation was being staged in March as well. A fan of the Krimi movies with Karin Dor, (who sadly does not appear here)I was pleased to find that Wallace's novel had been filmed as a Krimi,which led to me putting the scarf on.
