THE CASE OF THE FRIGHTENED TOURIST - New Franco film?

CINEMADROME - THE WORLD OF JESS FRANCO FORUM - New Franco film

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The above logo translates, according to Elena and Nzoog, THE CASE OF THE FRIGHTENED TOURIST.

I guess it would be an adaptation of Edgar Wallace's THE CASE OF THE FRIGHTENED LADY, made at least twice before in 1963 and 83, based on a novel [and there was also reportedly a play of that title which I have to research].  Nzoog reports that it's a contemptuous description of tourists. Since Franco often uses contempt as a basis for cultural comedy [cf IS COBRA THE SPY?] it makes sense. The 63 one [THE INDIAN SCARF] was directed in Germany by Alfred Vohrer and is very talky, but witty and entertaining as a whodunit set in a remote manse where greedy relatives of a man who was strangled by the titular scarf have gathered for a reading of his will. They have to stay in the mansion for a week and are cut off by a storm. Hienz Drache is the lawyer who investigates. With Klaus Kinski and Eddi Arent in their usual EW film adaptation-roles. I can't imagine this as a SOV erotic extravaganza, if that what Jess has in mind. We'll see...

Alfred Vohrer filmed Edgar Wallace's THE CASE OF THE FRIGHTENED LADY in 1963 as THE INDIAN SCARF, featuring a black gloved killer at work in a mansion. It would become a textbook for the gialli of Mario Bava [cf BLOOD AND BLACK LACE and Dario Argento DEEP RED].

Thanks to Nzoog and Elena for the translations over on CINEMADROME.