March 25, 2006
Howard Thompson, New York Times
Mario Adorf,
Claus Holm,
Hannes Messemer,
Werner Peters,
Carl Lange
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Writer/director Robert Siodmak based his German-filmed The Devil Strikes at Night on an actual case. Set during the last months of the Hitler regime, the film concerns a series of rapes and strangling... read more
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January 10, 2004
Fred Camper, Chicago Reader
This fascinating 1957 film, based on a true story, concerns the hunt for a serial killer by the Nazi regime. Full Review
March 3, 2008
TV Guide's Movie Guide
Fascinating study of criminal justice in the crumbling Nazi empire of 1944. Full Review
March 3, 2008
Fernando F. Croce, CinePassion
If Siodmak was less a determinist than Lang, he was also less icy -- he views the fall-guy ordeal of piggy, pathetically lecherous officer Werner Peters with characteristic sympathy. Full Review
January 26, 2006
Time Out
Werner Peters enjoyably essays another of his sweaty losers and the depiction of Bruno as a squalid dimwit makes a change from the Hannibal Lecter fantasy of the suave serial-killing mastermind. Full Review
July 28, 2003
Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews
A chilling wartime murder mystery. Full Review
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