The killer’s steps
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The killer’s steps |
| Original title | I start counting |
| Country of production | Great Britain |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1969 |
| length | 105 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | David Greene |
| script |
Audrey Erskine-Lindop Richard Harris |
| production |
David Greene Stanley R. Jaffe |
| music | Basil Kirchin |
| camera | Alex Thomson |
| cut | Keith Palmer |
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The Steps of the Murderer is a British thriller from 1969. The novel is based on Audrey Erskine-Lindop .
The film tells the story of 14-year-old Wynne, who falls in love with her much older stepbrother, George. At the same time, for Wynne, all indications speak for the fact that George is the wanted woman murderer, who is up to mischief in the night.
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14-year-old Wynne lives with her mother, her grandfather, her brother Len and the much older stepbrother George. Her birth father has passed away for years. Wynne feels very strongly drawn to her 32-year-old stepbrother George, while she subtly reveals her feelings of love for him. Wynne's best friend Corinne is also aware of her classmate's somewhat strange lovesickness.
The media report daily on the murder of young women, whose bodies are always found in a nearby park. Because of the murders, Wynne is forbidden by her stepbrother, who has also assumed a certain father role in the family, to visit the family's former home near the park, which is about to be demolished. Since Wynne has strong emotional memories of the house of her childhood, she does not abide by this ban and goes to the abandoned house, sometimes accompanied by Corinne.
However, Wynne's relationship with her stepbrother is put to the test in a different way when she realizes that George is the wanted killer. Because of the scratch marks on his back, the blood-smeared sweater that George threw in the trash, and his nightly absences, Wynne is certain of her suspicions, especially when she visits the elderly former neighbor, Mrs. Bennett, and learns that George is did not, as he claims, be with Mrs. Bennett for assistance.
This situation doesn't change Wynne's silent affection for George. She feels called to persuade George to confess through her affection. Again and again she makes allusions that are incomprehensible to George, but words that George receives only with incomprehension.
Unnoticed by George, Wynne hides in his van and follows him into the night. However, she only observes that George picks up another woman at the hospital and then stays in her house for a long time. She spends the waiting time in the car getting drunk with a bottle of beer, while at home her mother is already calling in the police about her disappearance. That same night, back home, Wynne confesses to George that she was secretly following him. At the same time she reveals her love to him, but gets a slap in the face from George . On the following Sunday morning, this causes the mood at the breakfast table to sink to the lowest point. Only reluctantly, George accepts his mother's suggestion to go to a picnic with his siblings and Corinne. In order to annoy her friend Wynne, Corinne cuddles up to the sleeping George, which, however, enrages him and makes Corinne understand. Because of this argument, Corinne decides to go home alone, frustrated.
A little later, both George with his car, as well as Wynne and Len on the scooter, go in search of Corinne. Wynne discovers George's car in front of the house of the woman who George had visited the previous night. She separates from Len, sneaks into the apartment and surprises George and Leonie while making love in bed. George lets the uncontrollably crying Wynne know unequivocally that he doesn't believe in a sibling relationship. At the same time, he also refutes all suspicions that he is the wanted serial killer.
Back home, Wynne receives a phone call from Corinne in the evening, who snippily informs her that she will be spending the night "with an admirer of hers". Wynne secretly sneaks out of the apartment and goes to the former apartment building because she expects to find Corinne there. To her great horror, she discovers her friend, murdered and hidden in a closet. When Wynne is about to leave the house in a panic, the bus conductor suddenly appears across from her. Wynne now realizes that this young man is the wanted woman killer. Wynne tries to run out of the park, pursued by the killer. When he catches up with her, she falls into a pond. The bus conductor helps her to get out of the water and then kneels in front of her crying. At the same time the police arrive.
Others
- The original film title I start counting (to German: I begin to count ) is due to some film sequences in which Wynne before it pulls itself together for an activity, one for himself to eleven. This relates to the number of steps that led to the basement in the former residential building. The film shows a memory scene in which Wynne goes down the stairs as a child, counting after Claire, George's girlfriend at the time, fell down the stairs and was fatally injured.
- The shooting took place in the English small town of Bracknell (approx. 60 kilometers southwest of London in the county of Berkshire ) and in the Bray Studios in Windsor .
- The theme song I Start Counting was sung by Lindsey Moore .
Web links
- The steps of the killer in the Internet Movie Database (English)