Creature with the Blue Hand

{{Infobox film

| name = Creature with the Blue Hand

| image = The-blue-hand-film-poster.jpg

| caption = Theatrical release poster

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| director = Alfred Vohrer

| producer = Horst Wendlandt

| writer =

| screenplay = Herbert Reinecker

| story =

| based_on = {{Based on|The Blue Hand|Edgar Wallace}}

| starring = {{ubl|Harald Leipnitz|Klaus Kinski|Ilse Steppat}}

| music = Martin Böttcher

| cinematography = Ernst W. Kalinke

| editing = Jutta Hering

| studio = Rialto Film

| distributor = Constantin Film

| released = {{Film date|1967|4|28|df=yes}}

| runtime = 87 minutes

| country = West Germany

| language =

| budget =

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Creature with the Blue Hand ({{langx|de|Die blaue Hand}}) is a West German horror film directed by Alfred Vohrer and starring Harald Leipnitz, Klaus Kinski and Ilse Steppat.{{cite web |url=http://www.filmportal.de/en/movie/die-blaue-hand_ea43d4a75c035006e03053d50b37753d |title=Die blaue Hand |access-date=25 October 2017|publisher=Filmportal.de}} It is based on the 1925 novel The Blue Hand by Edgar Wallace and was part of a long-running series of adaptations made by Rialto Film. The film's plot involves the police tracking a killer known as the Blue Hand. It was shot at the Spandau Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art director Walter Kutz and Wilhelm Vorwerg.

Cast

Harald Leipnitz as Inspector Craig
Klaus Kinski as Dave Emerson / Richard Emerson
Carl Lange as Dr. Albert Mangrove
Ilse Steppat as Lady Emerson
Hermann Lenschau as Lawyer Douglas
Diana Körner as Myrna Emerson
Gudrun Genest as Nurse Harris
Albert Bessler as Butler Anthony
{{ill|Richard Haller|de|Richard Haller (Schauspieler)}} as Edward Appleton / The Blue Hand
Ilse Pagé as Miss Mabel Finley
Fred Haltiner as Warder Reynolds
Peter Parten as Robert Emerson
Thomas Danneberg as Charles Emerson
Heinz Spitzner as Judge
Siegfried Schürenberg as Sir John

Release

Creature with the Blue Hand was released in 1967.{{cite book|publisher=Scarecrow Press|title=Famous Movie Detectives III|first=Michael R.|last=Pitts|year=2004|page=41|ISBN=978-0-8108-3690-7}} The film was bought by New World Pictures and issued as a double feature in the United States with Beast of the Yellow Night.{{cite book|first=Christopher T |last=Koetting|title=Mind Warp!: The Fantastic True Story of Roger Corman's New World Pictures|publisher=Hemlock Books|year=2009|isbn=978-0-9557774-1-7|page=25}} The film was later re-edited in 1987 with new gore inserts by producer Sam Sherman and released to home video as The Bloody Dead.