The Sniffer (1967)

Movie
German title	The snoop
Original title	Tony Rome
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	1967
length	106 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Gordon Douglas
script	Marvin H. Albert (based on the novel) Richard L. Breen (adaptation)
production	Aaron Rosenberg
music	Billy May
camera	Joseph F. Biroc
cut	Robert L. Simpson
occupation
Frank Sinatra : Tony Rome Jill St. John : Ann Archer Richard Conte : Inspector Dave Santini Gena Rowlands : Rita Kosterman Simon Oakland : Rudy Kosterman Jeffrey Lynn : Adam Boyd Robert J. Wilke : Ralph Turpin Shecky Greene : Catleg Sue Lyon : Diana Tiffany Bolling : photo model

The Sniffer is an American crime film from 1967 based on the novel The Sniffer ( Miami Mayhem , also: Tony Rome ) by Marvin H. Albert .

action

Tony Rome is a private investigator based in Miami , Florida . He is a former police officer who gave up his appointment after his father, also a police officer, had to quit his job due to political involvement and subsequently committed suicide. Now Tony Rome lives badly on a yacht he won playing poker. His main source of income is gambling rather than his private detective agency.

When he is called to an hour hotel by his former partner Ralph Turpin to bring a completely drunk girl back to her rich family, he is embroiled in a case that quickly claims numerous lives. The young Diana is the daughter from the first marriage of the influential construction lion Rudy Kosterman. While drunk, she lost a valuable brooch that is now sought after by gangsters as well as Tony Rome. The first murder victim is Tony's former partner Turpin. With the support of Homicide Inspector Santini, Tony Rome gets closer to the secret of the brooch step by step. Eventually he learns that Rita Kosterman is living in bigamy as their first marriage never ended in divorce. By chance, her first husband and Ann Archer, who in turn is the mother of Diana, came to a party at the Kosterman house. She was then blackmailed and exchanged her daughter's precious jewelry for copies to pay for her husband's blackmail.

background

The role of Tony Rome is reminiscent of the great detective characters who once played Humphrey Bogart . However, the film has nothing to do with the films of film noir , but is mainly due to the original locations in sunny Miami, humorous dialogues and swinging film music to a lighter version of the genre, but without losing tension. After the success with the audience, Gordon Douglas made a follow-up film a year later under the title The Lady in Cement , again with Frank Sinatra as Tony Rome.

The theme song, Tony Rome , was written by Lee Hazlewood and sung by Nancy Sinatra .

Reviews

"Exciting detective adventure, which is given a special touch by Frank Sinatra's performance."

- Lexicon of international film

"We reject this perfectly crafted thriller because of its inhuman and life-despising attitude, not because of its topic."

- Protestant film observer

literature

• Marvin H. Albert : The snoop. Roman (original title: Miami Mayhem ; also: Tony Rome ). German by Wolfgang Crass . 3. Edition. Heyne, Munich 1988, 219 pages, ISBN 3-453-01958-X

Web links

• Moonlighting in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The snoop. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 21, 2018 .  
2. ↑ Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 19/1968.