Writing

Egon Eis

Known for

Writing

Credits

31 titles

Known for

Behind the camera

The White Spider poster
6.4

After an automobile accident, in which a man is unrecognizably burnt to a crisp, his wife's only able to confirm the corpse's identity by his talisman: a small, white spider. However, soon, there are more corpses walking around than at a comic con convention and every single one of them was a white spider sitting on or nearby the body.

The White Spider

1963

The Secret of the Red Orchid poster
5.8

Rival gangsters from Chicago move to London and attempt to extort money from rich Britons.

The Secret of the Red Orchid

1962

The Devil's Daffodil poster
5.8

A Chinese detective breaks up a drug smuggling ring and tries to find the "Daffodil Killer". The drug smugglers had devised the ingenious method of smuggling heroin from Hong Kong in the stems of daffodils.

The Devil's Daffodil

1961

Dead Eyes of London poster
6.1

A disfigured killer with glazed-over white eyes is doing the dirty work so that an insurance agent-doctor can get the victims' insurance money.

Dead Eyes of London

1961

The Inn on the River poster
6.8

A serial killer named The Shark is terrorizing London by killing his victims with a speargun and then, dressed in a scruba-diver's wetsuit, using the city's sewer tunnels to make his getaway.

The Inn on the River

1962

The Red Circle poster
6.1

A strange, red circle appears on the neck of a man saved from the guillotine. What is its mysterious meaning? Tragically, it turns out to be something of a family curse, as each generation thereafter bears the same sign, which in turn leads to blackmail and murder.

The Red Circle

1960

Er kann's nicht lassen poster
6.9

Father Brown is only too happy to interfere with the work of the police in solving tricky criminal cases, usually with resounding success. That's why the clergyman is transferred to a sleepy island called Abbott's Rock. At first, nothing happens there, but somehow Father Brown seems to be attracted to crime: Soon a gang of thieves is up to no good on the island. So Brown makes the headlines again, and is punitively transferred once more. This time he finds himself in a quiet Irish millionaire community.

Er kann's nicht lassen

1962

Fellowship of the Frog poster
6.6

Both Scotland Yard and an amateur American sleuth are tracking a master criminal known as The Frog. This moniker refers to the bulging-eyed mask worn by the evildoer, and is reflected by the frog icons painfully tatooed onto the forearms of his henchmen. The trail leads to the country manor of an enigmatic, steely-eyed nabob, whose repressed son has eyes for the artistes at the Lolita cabaret, and whose lovely daughter captures the fancy of both the American playboy and the villain himself. Murder, kidnapping and seduction ensue.

Fellowship of the Frog

1959

La casa de la Troya poster
6.8

Adaptation of the novel by Alejandro Pérez Lujín, centered on the university adventures in Santiago de Compostela of Gerardo Roquer from Madrid, who stays in a boarding house known as "La Casa de la Troya".

La casa de la Troya

1948

The Tiger Murder Case poster
6.1

Mysterious murders committed by a criminal have kept the public on their toes and the police have mistakenly accused an imposter of the crimes.

The Tiger Murder Case

1930

Trapeze poster
10.0

Robby and Jim are two friends working in a circus. When Marina, a new acrobat, enters the show, both men will compete for her love. She needs a partner for a flying number, and one of them will be elected. Then accidents will happen.

Trapeze

1931

The Inn on Dartmoor poster
5.9

A private detective tries to find out how and why some convicts have mysteriously disappeared from the prison of Dartmoor.

The Inn on Dartmoor

1964

El rencor de la tierra poster
5.7

A couple is struck by tragedy and must prove how great their love is to overcome what happened together.

El rencor de la tierra

1949

Perpetrator Wanted poster
5.9

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.

Perpetrator Wanted

1931

The Squeeker poster
5.6

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The Squeeker

1931

Phantom of the Big Tent poster
7.0

Mr. Rossi and Mr. Capelli, co-owners of a successful traveling circus, have a rivalry over the affections of the lovely Dolores. That's all settled after Rossi is mauled to death by a lion. Years later a series of accidents, attacks and mysterious deaths plague the circus.

Phantom of the Big Tent

1954

The Train Killer poster
7.5

Based on a true story, this film is a dramatization of the events that led to the destruction of one of the most famous trains in history, the Orient Express.

The Train Killer

1983

The Shot in the Talker Studio poster
6.2

During the shooting of a jealousy scene on a soundstage, one actress is murdered. Due to the fact that the male star of the movie had a relation with the victim and the female star is now his fiance, he is suspected by the police.

The Shot in the Talker Studio

1930

Yo quiero ser tonta poster
5.8

Dreamer father wants son to become a bullfighter, and daughter to become a singer, so they become instant millionares, although their talent is not apparently there.

Yo quiero ser tonta

1950

Express 13 poster
5.8

Revolutionaries plot to assassinate a president by blowing up the rail tracks in order make his train derail but this is averted just in time.

Express 13

1931

A Shot at Dawn poster
7.0

A Berlin policeman tracks down a group of diamond thieves in the outskirts by posing as a gang member.

A Shot at Dawn

1932

Huellas del pasado poster
5.8

A young singer falls madly in love with a man, with whom she forms a family. Problems, however, are not long in coming when she receives unfair accusations.

Huellas del pasado

1950

Coup de feu à l'aube poster
10.0

A crime has been committed by the Trembleur gang, which specializes in jewelry thefts. The Berlin police are on the trail of the mysterious leader. Thanks to a cunning policeman posing as a member of a rival gang, the bandits are trapped in a suburban villa.

Coup de feu à l'aube

1932

The Copper poster
7.5

Inspector Harry Cross is investigating a murder case with a knife throwing killer in the the seedy world of night clubs.

The Copper

1930

Victoria and Her Hussar poster
6.7

Viktoria is a Hungarian countess who believes her Hussar captain husband was killed in World War I. She marries an American and resettles at the American consulate in Tokyo. Her first husband reappears, alive; and the American generously releases Viktoria from their union.

Victoria and Her Hussar

1931

Algo flota sobre el agua poster
6.0

Labor disputes and love triangles among coastal-village fishermen.

Algo flota sobre el agua

1948

La dama del velo poster
6.8

Andrea loves Esteban. Esteban murders his wife and goes go jail. Andrea marries Esteban's lawyer. Twenty years later...

La dama del velo

1949

Girls in Uniform poster
5.5

Orphan Manuela's passionate crush on her teacher Lucila scandalizes their all-girl Catholic school.

Girls in Uniform

1951

Canasta Uruguaya poster
6.3

Screwball comedy about country girl who inherits a fortune.

Canasta Uruguaya

1951

Prison Without Bars poster
6.8

In a state correctional institute for teenage girls, Madame Appel, the superintendent, rules with an iron fist. The State appoints thirty-year-old Yvonne to evaluate the situation. The young woman is convinced that the girls should feel wanted rather than be constantly subdued and is accordingly determined to make Madame Appel change her methods of education.

Prison Without Bars

1938

Embrujo antillano poster
6.3

Power struggles among the owners of a cigar factory;meanwhile, a society babe and a factory girl compete over the youngest of the executives.

Embrujo antillano

1946