Perpetrator wanted (1931)

"Perpetrator wanted" is a 1931 Crime movie directed by Carl Heinz Wolff and starring by Paul Henckels, Gerda Maurus. A dedicated editor, who is engaged to the daughter of a wealthy senator thrills her father with a lecture about convictions based on circumstantial evidence. When a corpse with a disfigured face is found in the house of the senator, evidence points to the editor. An entertaining thriller with a fairly intricate plot and some critical comments on the practice of the law. Based on the novel "Der geschlossene Ring" by Frank Arnau.