The Phantom of Soho

{{Short description|1964 film}} {{Infobox film | name = The Phantom of Soho | image = The Phantom of Soho.jpg | caption = | director = [[Franz Josef Gottlieb]] | producer = {{ubl|[[Artur Brauner]]|[[Heinz Willeg]]}} | based_on = | writer = {{ubl|[[Bryan Edgar Wallace]] (novel)|[[Ladislas Fodor]]}} | narrator = | starring = {{ubl|[[Dieter Borsche]]|[[Barbara Rütting]]|[[Hans Söhnker]]}} | music = [[Martin Böttcher]] | cinematography = [[Richard Angst]] | editing = [[Walter Wischniewsky]] | studio = [[CCC Film]] | distributor = [[Gloria Film]] | released = {{Film date|1964|02|14|df=yes}} | runtime = 97 minutes | country = West Germany | language = [[German language|German]] | budget = | gross = }} '''''The Phantom of Soho''''' (German: '''''Das Phantom von Soho''''') is a 1964 West German [[thriller film]] directed by [[Franz Josef Gottlieb]] and starring [[Dieter Borsche]], [[Barbara Rütting]] and [[Hans Söhnker]].<ref>Bergfelder p.258</ref> It was based on a novel by [[Bryan Edgar Wallace]] and was part of a large group of British-set thrillers made in West Germany at the time, [[Films based on works by Edgar Wallace|many of them adapted from the works]] of Wallace's father [[Edgar Wallace]]. It was shot at the [[Spandau Studios]] in [[West Berlin]] and [[location shooting|on location]] in [[London]]. The film's sets were designed by the [[art director]]s [[Hans Jürgen Kiebach]] and [[Ernst Schomer]].

==Cast== * [[Dieter Borsche]] as Chief Inspector Hugh Patton * [[Barbara Rütting]] as Clarinda Smith * [[Hans Söhnker]] as Sir Philip * [[Peter Vogel (actor)|Peter Vogel]] as Sergeant Hallam * [[Helga Sommerfeld]] as Corinne Smith * [[Werner Peters]] as Dr. Dalmer * [[Hans Nielsen (actor)|Hans Nielsen]] as Lord Harold Malhouse * [[Stanislav Ledinek]] as Gilard, club manager * [[Otto Waldis]] as William B. Clover, man with birthmark * [[Hans W. Hamacher]] as Capt. Muggins * [[Emil Feldmann]] as Papa Red * [[Harald Sawade]] as Charlie * [[Kurt Jaggberg]] as Jussuf * [[Elisabeth Flickenschildt]] as Joanna Filiati

== References == {{reflist}}

== Bibliography == * Bergfelder, Tim. ''International Adventures: German Popular Cinema and European Co-Productions in the 1960s''. Berghahn Books, 2005.

== External links == * {{IMDb title|0058466}}

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