A West German/French/Italian international co-production, it starred Peter van Eyck, Dawn Addams and Gert Fröbe.

Inspector Kras gets a call from his informant Peter Cornelius, a blind fortuneteller, who had a vision of the crime but not the perpetrator.

Meanwhile, Henry Travers, a rich American industrialist, checks into the Luxor Hotel, which was outfitted by the Nazis during World War II to spy on people in every room.

The script of this film, written by Fritz Lang and Heinz Oskar Wuttig, was based on the Esperanto novel Mr. Tot Buys A Thousand Eyes by the Polish author Jan Fethke.

[4] The film spawned a number of sequels, all made in a similar style and produced by Artur Brauner: