

A blind man sees everything—including how to ruin your life in 47 minutes.
An encounter with a blind man ends unexpectedly for Susan Howard. The supposedly helpless man stuns and kidnaps her. The case is handed over by the Home Secretary to Sir John, the head of Scotland Yard. He entrusts Chief Inspector Higgins and Superintendent Lane with the investigation. Their investigations quickly lead Higgins and Lane on the trail of murder, white slavery and blackmail.
Acting
Eddi Arent's Flatter steals every scene he's barely in.
Production
London Underground shot like it's personally judging you.
Practical Effects
Fake blindness executed with committed physicality.

Director
Peter Keglevic
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Peter Simonischek later won international acclaim in Toni Erdmann (2016), making his villain turn here delightfully jarring in retrospect.
This was part of a 1990s German TV cycle adapting obscure British crime novels with ironic distance—imagine Agatha Christie fanfic made by people who'd rather be making Tarantino.