Madness Rules

If any one man is responsible for the rejuvenation of the postwar Swiss film industry that man was director Leopold Lindtberg Matto Regiert Madness Rules was coadapted for the screen by Lindtberg from a novel by Friedrich Glauser Heinrich Gretler stars as Police Constable Studer the hero of several of Glausers most popular works This time Studer must solve the murder of the director of an insane asylum and its not surprise surprise the most likely suspect manicdepressive patient Herbert Caplaun For boxoffice purposes Matto Regiert stresses a romantic subplot involving Caplaun and nurse Irma Wasem