The Devil's Daffodil
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.
- Runtime
- 1h 26m
- Released
- 1961
- Country
- United Kingdom, West Germany
Details
Release year: 1961
Storyline
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.
Top credits
Joachim Fuchsberger — Jack Tarling
William Lucas — Jack Tarling (English Version)
Sabine Sesselmann — Anne Ryder
Penelope Horner — Anne Rider (English Version)
Did you know
• Sir Christopher Lee spoke German in the German version of this movie.
• The German and English versions were filmed simultaneously in London.
• The first movie of Rialto's Edgar Wallace series to be shot entirely in England, both on-location and in the studio. All former movies has been shot in Germany with insert shots and archive footage of London used to create a more "British" atmosphere. Archive footage from this movie was also used in Edgar Wallace movies.
User reviews
Flowers? For me? Why, thank you Mr. Sadist Killer!
Convoluted but worthwhile
THE DEVIL'S DAFFODIL (Akos von Rathony, 1961) ***
Technical specs
- Sound mix
- Mono
- Aspect ratio
- 1.66 : 1
- Color
- Black and White
