IMDb:https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000485/
Date of Birth:5 December 1890, Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
Date of Death:2 August 1976, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA
Height:5' 11" (1.8 m)
Trademarks:All his films feature a shot of his hand Usually wore a monocle, and probably only for dramatic effect His protagonists are frequently hateful, violent but ultimately sympathetic figures His films are dark (both visually and in tone)
As a young couple stops and rests in a small village inn, the man is abducted by Death and is sequestered behind a huge doorless, windowless wall. The woman finds a mystic entrance and is met by Death, who tells her three separate stories set in exotic locales, all involving circumstances similar to hers. In each story, a woman, trying to save her lover from his ultimate tragic fate, fails. The young lady realizes the meaning of the tales and takes the only step she can to reunite herself with her lover.
Dave Bannion is an upright cop on the trail of a vicious gang he suspects holds power over the police force. Bannion is tipped off after a colleague's suicide and his fellow officers' suspicious silence lead him to believe that they are on the gangsters' payroll. When a bomb meant for him kills his wife instead, Bannion becomes a furious force of vengeance and justice, aided along the way by the gangster's spurned girlfriend Debbie. As Bannion and Debbie fall further and further into the Gangland's insidious and brutal trap, they must use any means necessary (including murder) to get to the truth.