The zinc man (1959)

Movie
Original title	The zinc man
Country of production	GDR
original language	German
Publishing year	1959
Rod
Director	Hans-Joachim Hildebrandt
script	Erika Wilde
production	German television broadcasting
occupation
Heinz Scholz : George Field Jessy Rameik : Beryl Stedman, his daughter Fred Ludwig : Frank Sutton, export merchant Evamaria Bath : Millie Trent Helmut Müller-Lankow : Jack Leslie Kurt Timm : Tillmann Gerd Ehlers : Bill, night porter in the Leopard Club Harry Riebauer : Collie, reporter Kurt Schmidtchen : Jim, lift boy Dietmar Richter-Reinick : Giovanni, waiter Horst Gill : Sergeant Weaver Wolfgang Luderer : Walters Friedrich-Wilhelm Then : Weatherley Georg Dücker : Kalgrew Isolde Thümmler : Zena, an easy girl

Der Zinker is a GDR film staged by the German television network in 1959 based on the eponymous crime play by Edgar Wallace (English original title of the story: The Squeaker ). The direction was by Hans Joachim Hildebrandt . The main roles are played by Heinz Scholz , Jessy Rameik and Fred Ludwig .

The film was first broadcast on June 6, 1959 on German television .

action

Zinker is a mysterious figure from the criminal milieu of the English capital, London, who is responsible for break-ins, thefts, smuggling and the like. Nobody has seen it before - and yet it is omnipresent in the city. As soon as a robbery has been carried out in London, the zincer is there to extort his share of the booty. He's also not afraid to whistle his own people to the police. If you do not follow his suggestion, he makes short work and reveals the perpetrators of the crime to Scotland Yard . For him, this also has the advantage that he keeps examinations at bay because the police do not want to do without his spy services.

Even when a trap is set for the Zinker by a boss from the underworld, he can escape. On the contrary, his counterpart now becomes the victim of the zincer who kills his opponent with the poison of the black mamba . The cause of death, poisoning, leads the investigating police officers on the trail of a mysterious animal wholesaler. A specimen of this species of snake, which belongs to the snake family, was recently stolen there.

The original owner of the business had already left this to a certain Frank Sutton. Since then she has dedicated herself to caring for released convicts. Her late husband was once blackmailed by the zinc worker and then driven to his death.

literature

• Edgar Wallace: The zinc man . German translation. Goldmann Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-442-05372-2 .
• Joachim Kramp , Jürgen Wehnert: The Edgar Wallace Lexicon. Life, work, films. It is impossible not to be captivated by Edgar Wallace! Verlag Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89602-508-2 .
• Joachim Kramp: Hello! This is Edgar Wallace speaking. The story of the legendary German crime film series from 1959–1972 . 3. Edition. Verlag Schwarzkopf and Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-89602-645-3 .

Web links

• The Squeaker in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Der Zinker , DRA-Spezial: Detective films on GDR television: Der Zinker , p. 22 at dra.de (German Broadcasting Archive)
• The zinc at krimiserien.heimat.eu

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Der Zinker , DDR-TV 1959 at fernsehenderddr.de. Retrieved November 20, 2016.