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The Mad Executioners (1963) "Der Henker von London" (original title)
92 min | Crime, Horror | 22 September 1965 (USA)

A group of vigilantes hang wrong-doers.

Director: Edwin Zbonek

Writers: Robert A. Stemmle, Bryan Edgar Wallace (novel)

Stars: Hansjörg Felmy, Maria Perschy, Dieter Borsche
Transcript
00:00A band of terrorists, garbed in the robes of death, intoning a strange, satanic ritual,
00:11as their victims face a murderous tribunal who meet and judge in the evil hours before
00:16dawn.
00:17I am innocent!
00:18The architect whose buildings collapsed and brought disaster to hundreds, death.
00:25The man who murdered his brother and hid the mummified body in a British museum, no, no!
00:31Death.
00:32Who are these men, summoned in the middle of the night, holding their devilish trials
00:38in a London cemetery, stealing the hangman's noose each time from a Scotland Yard museum
00:45to fulfill their verdict?
00:55Is it the mad judge who relives his old trials in a make-believe court?
01:01Is it the Scotland Yard doctor whose autopsies ensure the victim's death?
01:07Is it the maniacal surgeon responsible for the deaths of five beautiful women whose heads
01:12have never been found?
01:15The surgeon who wishes to graft a head onto a mechanical body?
01:22Is it gangland itself that uses these trials to stage their own and take the heat from
01:27their own crimes?