The Kensington Cat

Movie
Original title	The Kensington Cat
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1996
length	80 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Peter Keglevic
script	Simone Borowiak Hans Kantereit
music	Jürgen Corner
camera	David Slama
cut	Moune Barius
occupation
Joachim Kemmer : Chief Inspector Higgins Julia Bremermann : Inspector Barbara Lane Leslie Phillips : Sir John Eddi Arent : Flutter Gisela Uhlen : Lady Smith Pinkas Braun : Mr. Theodor Goldman Karin Gregorek : Mrs. Elisabeth Goldman Arthur Brauss : Tony Miller Henry Huebchen : J. Carpenter Horst Günter Marx : Eugene Phipps Christiane Reiff : Ann Pattison Ralf Richter : Reynolds Sven-Eric Bechtolf : Mr. Silkwood Reinhard Scheunemann : Alex Martin Semmelrogge : Robert

The cat of Kensington is a feature film in 1996. The film is part of a short Edgar Wallace series radio station RTL under the overall direction of Horst Wendlandt and is loosely based on the novel "The Joker" ( The Joker ) to Wallace.

action

Late in the evening a man is walking home when he is suddenly shot out by a car. He is not the first victim of this kind, because the killer always leaves a Joker playing card at the scene. Chief Inspector Higgins is supposed to take over the case and is pleasantly surprised to be joined by a pretty young woman as a new colleague: Inspector Barbara Lane. Research reveals that the victim was involved in dark diamond deals. The series of murders is gradually upsetting the crooks of London, because it doesn't take long before the next jewel thief is found shot. So Higgins wants to send a decoy to bring the "Joker" down. But the plan fails, this man is also shot despite being under surveillance. The officers only noticed a black jaguar that was near the crime scene and then drove away quickly.

Inspector Higgins hopes for clues from the police known Carpenter, in whose nightclub representatives of the underworld regularly gather. After Higgins discovers a bug there, he is sure that the perpetrator has spied out his victims here. This discovery is no longer of any use to the next victim, the "Joker" strikes again and shoots another man.

The investigation leads to the old hotel "Oriental". There the Jaguar was seen driving into the underground car park. The retirement home "Kensington Peace", which is run by the mysterious Lady Smith, is also being targeted. When, after an attack on a diamond transport, the four perpetrators are shot by the “Joker” and he takes their loot from them, it is clear that the perpetrator was only interested in the gems from the start. Barbara Lane, who wanted to do an investigation in the "Kensington Peace", is caught there and captured by house workers Miller. Higgins overpowers the man and frees his colleague. Together they go to Carpenter again and find a secret passage into the basement, where there is a monitoring system. Records show that the thieves were spied on from here. The "Joker" then hunted their prey after their break-ins and killed the men. Higgins found the final solution to the riddle in the hotel "Oriental", where he actually met the "Joker". When he sees himself convicted, he shoots the inspector and would have killed him too, had it not been for Mr. Goldman from the old people's home surprisingly to show up. On the spur of the moment, he shoots the killer who, to everyone's surprise, was a woman.

background

It was produced from spring to summer 1995 in London and Berlin / Brandenburg. It premiered on February 6, 1996 on RTL.

criticism

TV Spielfilm only gave the film a medium rating and pointed its thumb to the side. The critics wrote: "An endeavored Edgar Wallace-Nachklapp with Eddi Arent and Pinkas Braun in nice supporting roles."

The Internet Movie Database judged: “This German television film should revive and continue the classic film series of the 1960s, which is based on novels by Edgar Wallace. Unfortunately it fails miserably. The story is pretty confusing, the last twist makes no sense and the actors in particular are not convincing, apart from older actors like Pinkas Braun and Gisela Uhlen […] Although the film was a flop on TV, by 2002 it was followed by six or seven Wallace -Adjustments (all of very poor quality). Obviously, it took the producers so long to accept that these films cannot bring the classic series back to life. "

Web links

• The cat of Kensington in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• The Kensington cat on Fernsehserien.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Certificate of Release for The Kensington Cat . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , September 2005 (PDF; test number: 103 609 DVD).
2. ^ Film review at tvspielfilm.de , accessed on November 15, 2018.
3. ↑ Review at the Internet Movie Database, accessed November 15, 2018.