The naked face (1984)

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Movie
German title The bare face
Original title The Naked Face
The naked face film.svg
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1984
length 103 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Bryan Forbes
script Bryan Forbes
production Yoram Globus ,
Menahem Golan ,
Rony Yacov
music Michael J. Lewis
camera David Gurfinkel
cut William B. Fosser
occupation

The Bare Face is a 1984 American action film directed by Bryan Forbes . The film is based on the novel of the same name by Sidney Sheldon . The film opened in German cinemas on May 31, 1985.

action

Dr. Judd Stevens, a Chicago psychiatrist , receives a visit to his practice one day. The uninvited guests are McGreary and Angeli, two police officers who hand him his raincoat, which Dr. Stevens had recently loaned one of his patients because of the bad weather. However, the garment is smeared with blood because an unknown Dr. Stevens' patient had stabbed from behind in the street.

The police now suspect Dr. Stevens himself being the perpetrator, everything points to him. In addition, there is the dubious reputation of working as a neurologist, which Dr. Stevens additionally burdened. For a long time Stevens remains the main suspect in the police force. A psychiatrist who, according to stubborn Lieutenant McGreary, needs one himself. Dr. To top it all off, Stevens was the appraiser of a criminal who killed a colleague of McGreary's life. In the further course, Dr. Stevens's secretary murdered when his office is broken into. The noose wraps itself more and more around Judd's neck. But soon Judd himself almost becomes the victim of an attempted murder on the street and in his apartment. However, his brother-in-law Peter Hadley, who is also a doctor, becomes a witness and can describe the perpetrators.

For Dr. Stevens is certain that all previous events and murders were directed at him. Judd suspects that someone is after him who suspects evidence in his practice that could incriminate the stranger. So he decides to hire a private detective to watch over him to find out who is trying to silence him. In the business directory he finds the detective Morgens, who initially saves him from another assassination attempt, a car bomb. His suspicion that one of his patients might have confided in him something that incriminated the unknown killer is soon confirmed. Judd trusts Angeli more and more. McGreary was mysteriously withdrawn from the case on the grounds that he was biased. When he contacted him in the morning and told him he now knew that Don Vito was behind the murders and would like to meet him at a pier, he calls Angeli, with whom he drives out to the pier. When they arrive in the morning they are found dead.

By chance, during one of his prison visits, Judd learns that Don Vito is the Italian name for big boss. He shares his new findings with Angeli, who will now pick him up. Angeli says he is now taking Stevens to a safe place. However, this safe place turns out to be the mansion of a Chicago mafia boss and Angeli now reveals that he was bribed by the mafia. Now the connection is clear to Stevens: The wife of this Chicago Mafia great named Ann Blake has only been a patient with Judd for a short time. Her husband now suspects that she may have spoken confidential, and now wants to kill Stevens. But the police manage to save Stevens at the last second, and the mafia boss is shot.

After these events, Dr. Stevens while visiting the cemetery on Ann Blake, who wants to meet him while they continue to talk, she is ambushed and shot.

criticism

"A routinely staged, but not very ambitious, bestseller film adaptation that focuses more on the presentation of the stars than on the logic of the story."

- Lexicon of international film .

"The bare face is a superbly crafted thrill that gets by with far less bloodshed than is usual in this genre."

- Stuttgart newspaper .

Awards

The film was nominated for Best Picture at the 1984 Mystfest Film Festival.

synchronization

role actor Voice actor
Dr. Judd Stevens Roger Moore Niels Clausnitzer
Lieutenant McGreary Rod Steiger Edgar Ott
Angeli Elliott Gould Michael Brennicke
Ann Blake Anne Archer Rita Engelmann
In the morning Kind Carney Friedrich W. Building School
Dr. Peter Hadley David Hedison Friedrich Georg Beckhaus

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.filmposter-archiv.de/filmplakat.php?id=9337
  2. ↑ The bare face. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ^ The naked face in the Stuttgarter Zeitung
  4. ↑ The bare face. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on March 2, 2017 .