Overview
A dedicated editor, who is engaged to the daughter of a wealthy senator thrills her father with a lecture about convictions based on circumstantial evidence. When a corpse with a disfigured face is found in the house of the senator, evidence points to the editor. An entertaining thriller with a fairly intricate plot and some critical comments on the practice of the law. Based on the novel "Der geschlossene Ring" by Frank Arnau.
Cast
- Paul Henckels as Konsul Lychner
- Gerda Maurus as Vera - seine Tochter
- Karl Ludwig Diehl as Dr. Gregor, Redakteur
- Fritz Odemar as Dorner, Diener
- Harry Hardt as Wittenhagen, Kriminalkommissar
- Ernst Behmer as Schränker-Ede
- Rosa Valetti as Nachbarin
- Gustav Rickelt as Arzt
- Julius E. Herrmann as Bachmann, Nachtredakteur
- Wanda Rotha as Lilly Meißner