Carrera - The secret of the blonde cat

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Movie
German title Carrera - The secret of the blonde cat
Original title El magnifico Tony Carrera
Country of production Spain , Italy , Germany
original language English
Publishing year 1968
length 104 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director José Antonio de la Loma
script José Antonio de la Loma
Carlo Fadda
Milo G. Cuccia
production Julian Muro Navarro
music Gianni Marchetti
camera Victor Monreal
cut Bruno Mattei
occupation

Carrera - The secret of the blonde cat (original title: El magnifico Tony Carrera ) is a crime film in Spanish-Italian-German coproduction, which José Antonio de la Loma directed in 1968. It was premiered in German-speaking countries on September 13, 1968. The alternative title is Velvet Paws doing his last thing .

action

Ex-racing driver Tony Carrera, who is about to marry the wealthy Antonella Arnaldini, is reminded of his inglorious days as a burglar when a gang forced him to break into the NATO headquarters in Amsterdam in order to make things highly dangerous for a politician Steal documents. Several other people are involved in this illegal undertaking, such as Professor Einstein, the beautiful Ursula Beaulieu or gangster Rick. After extensive preparations, Tony discovers that it is actually about the theft of a military device, which the American Senator Barnes is interested in.

The coup succeeds without any problems; all those involved try to take advantage of and eliminate one another. With Ursula's help, Tony succeeds in making Barnes believe that he has died and escapes to America on the ship after his mock funeral.

criticism

In his book on crime genre, Karsten Thurau takes the film to court: (He) “is really a cinematic rivet in all respects. The music is partly reminiscent of the Pennäler films with Heintje (...), the dialogues are for the most part terribly silly. ”The Italian Segnalazioni Cinematografiche , on the other hand, were more friendly:“ An agent film with a little awkward plot, but full of movement and staged with considerable skill. ”The lexicon of the international film saw a "silly detective film with stupid dialogues and viscous plot."

Remarks

The running time is given as 101 minutes in Italy and 95 minutes in Spain. The German video version, which came to the video stores in the 1980s under the title Die Profi-Gang , runs exactly 90'00 ". According to the German credits, the film was shot in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Enkuzen, Nordkanal, Milan, Monza and Barcelona The German dubbed version was made by Studio Hamburg, Rainer Brandt was responsible for the script and the dialogue . Gero Erhardt , son of Heinz Erhardt and later cameraman and director, was responsible for the camera work. Niels Clausnitzer dubbed the main actor Thomas Hunter, Hans Waldherr does not speak himself .

The songs are interpreted by Nora Orlandis I 4 + 4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Michael Cholewa / KarstenThurau: The Terror directs. 2008², p. 37, ISBN 978-3-931608-91-0
  2. Segnalazioni Cinematografiche , Vol. LXVII, 1969
  3. Carrera - The secret of the blonde cat. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  4. http://www.mundocine.net/El-magnifico-tony-carrera-pelicula-3089.html