The seventh victim
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| Original title | The seventh victim |
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| Country of production | Federal Republic of Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1964 |
| length | 93 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
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| Director | Franz Josef Gottlieb |
| script | Franz Josef Gottlieb |
| production | CCC Kunstfilmstudio GmbH ( Artur Brauner ) |
| music | Raimund Rosenberger |
| camera | Richard fear |
| cut | Walter Wischniewsky |
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The seventh victim (also in the spelling The seventh victim ) is a German crime film that was shot in West Berlin in 1964 under the direction of Franz Josef Gottlieb . The film adaptation of the novel With Murder It Began (Original Title: Murder Is Not Enough ) by Bryan Edgar Wallace was the seventh of a total of ten Bryan Edgar Wallace films from Artur Brauner's CCC film , with which the film producer on the success of Edgar, started in 1959 -Wallace series wanted to participate in the competition. The film launch in German cinemas was on November 27, 1964.
action
The wealthy Lord Mant, a former judge, is the proud owner of the horse Satan, considered the favorite of the upcoming Royal Ascot horse race . Unscrupulous criminals, above all the seedy businessman and nightclub owner Ed Ranova, want to prevent the horse from winning and do not shy away from murder. When a trumpeter who apparently knew too much is shot dead during the Lord's party, Scotland Yard's Inspector Bradley takes over the case. The Lord's environment includes, among others, Mant's sister Jenny Stratford, her attractive niece Avril Mant, the extortionate veterinarian Howard Trent and the curious butler Irving and Reverend Turner, a frequent guest of the house. A little later, the idiosyncratic painter Peter Brooks, a rather casual guest, arrives at the palace. Among other things, he is interested in Avril, who is also being courted by Howard Trent.
Eventually Lord Mant himself is murdered. Inspector Bradley found out the next morning that the Lord's safe had been opened and a will stolen. Meanwhile, Brooks receives the diet nurse Molly Dobson, who has followed him and listens to the house conversations with her patient. Mysterious things continue to happen at Mant Castle and the Silver Whip nightclub in London . Suspicious and innocent people are eliminated in cold blood, hot traces run nowhere. On the day of the race, the jockey supposed to ride Satan disappears and the lord's son is murdered. Denouement: At the last moment Avril rides Satan and leads him to win the Ascot Derby. Inspector Bradley finally exposes another man behind the criminal machinations: Reverend Turner, the brother of the innocently executed Falconetti, who wanted to take revenge on Ranova.
History of origin
prehistory
In the wake of the Edgar Wallace films by Rialto Film , which have been marketed by Constantin Film since 1959 , numerous other crime films based on a similar pattern were made in the 1960s. In 1960, the film producer Artur Brauner, who was already established in the 1950s, started his own film series with the Doktor Mabuse films , and from 1962 he brought films based on subjects by Bryan Edgar Wallace, the son of the well-known writer Edgar Wallace, to the cinemas. Brauner had acquired filming rights to the novel and the right to use the name Bryan Edgar Wallace for freely invented film material.
After the film The Monster of London City , which was released in July 1964, the next plan was to make the Bryan Edgar Wallace film The White Carpet . The main actors were Carlos Thompson , Sabine Bethmann , Hans Nielsen , Walter Rilla , Charles Regnier and Chris Howland , while the director was Franz Josef Gottlieb. Due to the similarity with the title of the Weinert-Wilton crime novel The Carpet of Horror , the project, which was ultimately never realized, was postponed.
Pre-production and script
Director Franz Josef Gottlieb had written a script based on the novel Mit Mord began es (original title: Murder is not enough) , which was accepted without change by Artur Brauner and Nora Filmverleih. Gottlieb had directed several successful crime films, including The Black Abbot based on Edgar Wallace and The Phantom of Soho based on his son Bryan Edgar. For the Design , the architects were Hans-Jürgen Kiebach and Ernst Shomer responsible. While the two previous Bryan Edgar Wallace films were made in the lavish Ultrascope format (1: 2.35), The Seventh Victim was recorded in the normal format (1: 1.33). The cameraman was the Swiss Richard Angst , whose best-known works include The White Hell from Piz Palü (1929), Rembrandt (1942) and Das Wirtshaus im Spessart (1958).
Filming
The shooting took place from August 10 to September 11, 1964 in West Berlin and in the CCC studios in Berlin-Haselhorst . The scenes at the ruin were made in Einestrasse on Nollendorfplatz , the riding and stable shots were filmed at the Deutschlandhalle equestrian club . As the original sound was also used in the riding arena, many scenes had to be repeated several times, which delayed the filming. The actors Werner Peters and Dieter Borsche , known from Wallace films by director Franz Josef Gottlieb, among others, each have a short cameo as a party and nightclub guest. Rolf Zacher had one of his first film appearances as a nightclub waiter.
Film music
Until the resampling in 2005, all video and television versions lacked the colored opening credits of the film, which was otherwise shot in black and white. That is why it was not known for years that the original theme music by Raimund Rosenberger could also be heard in the German version of the Edgar Wallace film The Riddle of the Silver Triangle, co-produced by Constantin Film in 1966 . So far, no music title from the film soundtrack has been released on CD .
reception
The FSK gave the film after an examination on November 5, 1964. 16 years free. Brauner's previous Wallace films were marketed professionally and in coordination with other film titles by the market-leading film distributors Gloria-Film and Constantin-Film ( The Curse of the Yellow Snake ) . The film The Seventh Victim , distributed by Nora Filmverleih, was not able to assert itself as well as its predecessor against the lavishly advertised films of the competition, despite star cast and positive reviews. In surveys carried out by the trade journal Filmecho / Filmwoche at the time , in which cinema-goers were able to rate current films on a scale from 1 (excellent) to 7 (very bad), the film received a grade of 3.6. For comparison: The films The Wirtshaus von Dartmoor (3.1), The Witcher (2.3) and The Death Rays of Dr. Mabuse (3.6).
After Artur Brauner discontinued the Mabuse series, no further Bryan Edgar Wallace films were made. The project The White Carpet, announced for 1964/65, was not pursued any further. Carlos Thompson , Sabine Bethmann , Hans Nielsen , Walter Rilla , Chris Howland and Charles Regnier were to take part in it, directed by Franz Josef Gottlieb . The announcement promised a “dynamite-loaded crime thriller. Over a white prayer rug, a sanctuary stolen from Tibet, a struggle arises in today's London, in which mysterious murders occur with initially inexplicable motives. ”Instead, Brauner concentrated on large-scale international productions such as The Aztec Treasure (1965) or The Nibelungs ( 1966/67). The Bryan Edgar Wallace series was only to be continued with the Italian-German coproduction The Secret of Black Gloves , which premiered in 1970 .
Reviews
"Whether different motives, the offenses of two criminal groups overlap, so that the action is opaque, even if it is completely resolved."
"Relatively cleverly designed and loosened up with humor."
literature
- Bryan Edgar Wallace : It started with murder . Unabridged edition. Wilhelm Goldmann Verlag, Munich 1962 (Goldmanns Taschen-Krimi 1100)
Web links
- The seventh victim in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The seventh victim at Filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ 93 min. For cinema projection (24 images / second), 89 min. For television playback (25 images / second), film length: 2543 meters
- ↑ In the opening credits and in the Internet Movie Database: The Seventh Victim , on the movie poster and in the lexicon of international films: The 7th victim
- ↑ Original daily report (No. 19) of the film production, September 3, 1964 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 283 kB)
- ↑ The seventh sacrifice . In: Paimann's film lists . No. 2901 , November 19, 1964 ( Reizfeld.net ).
- ↑ The seventh sacrifice. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed July 17, 2017 .
