"Die Tote aus der Themse" or "Angels of Terror" (really?) is a West German movie from 45 years ago and it is one of the later additions to the Edgar Wallace series. I have seen some of these films, but I personally must say that they are mostly quantity over quality unfortunately. The crime cases are rarely interesting and I am almost never tempted to make guesses who the killer is and this is really everything that the films rely on. The characters are not written particularly convincingly, but just as means to the story. The music is over the top. About this one here, I would almost say the somewhat comedic scenes at the slaughterhouse were the funniest, because it is all so mediocre and forgettable in terms of the drama and crime stories. The cast has a couple famous names here. Uschi Glas was a big star back then and this resulted in a somewhat unusual occurrence for these Wallace films. I am not speaking about the fact that she plays two characters in here, but that she has so much screen time that she can almost be seen as a bigger lead than Hansjörg Felmy. She is also first-listed in the cast. Werner Peters and Vadim Glowna could also be known to older German audiences as they both had really long careers. But this quality cast cannot turn this script into a decent crime movie either. I give it a thumbs down.
Review of Angels of Terror
