Doctor Crippen Lives

Doctor Crippen Lives
Directed by Erich Engels
Produced by Walter Koppel
Gyula Trebitsch
Written by Erich Engels
Wolf Neumeister
Starring Elisabeth Müller
Peter van Eyck
Fritz Tillmann
Music by Siegfried Franz
Cinematography Albert Benitz
Edited by Alice Ludwig
Production
company
Distributed by Europa-Filmverleih
Release date
20 February 1958
Running time
88 minutes
Country West Germany
Language German

Doctor Crippen Lives (German: Dr. Crippen lebt) is a 1958 West German crime film directed by Erich Engels and starring Elisabeth Müller, Peter van Eyck and Fritz Tillmann.[1] It was made at the Wandsbek Studios of Real Film in Hamburg.

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

References

  1. Davidson & Hake p.237

Bibliography

  • Davidson, John & Hake, Sabine. Framing the Fifties: Cinema in a Divided Germany. Berghahn Books, 2007.
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