Durbridge films
Durbridge films were based on scripts by the English writer Francis Durbridge (1912-1998), which were later published as novels. The radio plays with René Deltgen and Paul Klinger as Paul Temple as well as the multi-part television adaptations in the 1960s were referred to as " street sweeps ".
In 1962, the cabaret artist Wolfgang Neuss caused a scandal when he betrayed the murderer in the Durbridge thriller Das Halstuch in an advertisement . This even earned him death threats. The Bild newspaper even described Neuss as a traitor to the fatherland . This production was also the most successful.
Albert Lieven was the actor with the most appearances in the Durbridge series of the ARD . He was seen in four film adaptations.
The Paul Temple television series occupies a special position . Durbridge licensed the character to the BBC , which turned the stories into a 52-part television series from 1969, of which 39 episodes were shot in the first international co-production in television history together with ZDF . The main role in the completed individual episodes of the series played the English actor Francis Matthews , the role of his wife Steve Ros Drinkwater .
German films
- 1959: The other
- 1960: The time has come
- 1962: the scarf
- 1963: Tim Frazer
- 1963: Piccadilly twelve o'clock (movie)
- 1964: Tim Frazer - The Salinger case
- 1964: Tim Frazer chases the mysterious Mister X (movie, which is not an original work by the author, as the screenplay comes from Anton van Casteren and Ernst Hofbauer )
- 1965: the keys
- 1966: Melissa
- 1968: A man named Harry Brent
- 1969: Paul Temple (English TV series with ZDF co-production)
- 1970: like lightning
- 1971: the knife
- 1977: the chain
- 1978: The elegant twist
- 1983: Sudden and unexpected
- 1984: the visit
- 1986: No alibi for a corpse
- 1986: Murder at the pool
- 1987: This portrait is beautiful to kill
- 1988: Diary for a murderer
English TV adaptations
- 1952: The Broken Horseshoe
- 1952: Operation Diplomat
- 1953-1954: The Teckman Biography
- 1954: The Teckman Mystery
- 1955: Portrait Of Alison
- 1956: My Friend Charles
- 1956: The Other Man
- 1957: A Time Of Day
- 1957: The Vicious Circle
- 1959: The Scarf
- 1960–1961: The World Of Tim Frazer
- 1963: The Desperate People
- 1964: Melissa
- 1965: A Man Called Harry Brent
- 1966: Bat Out Of Hell
- 1966: A Game of Murder
- 1968–1969: Paul Temple (12 episodes)
- 1969–1971: Paul Temple (52 episodes)
- 1971: The Passenger
- 1975: The Doll
- 1980: Breakaway
English feature films
- 1946: The green finger
- 1948: who is Rex?
- 1950: Hunt for "Z"
- 1952: Paul Temple and the Marquis case
- 1957: Interpol calls Berlin
Web links
- Francis Durbridge and his films in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Bibliography, filmography, radio plays, plays
Individual evidence
- ↑ Joachim Kramp : Hello! This is Edgar Wallace speaking. The history of the crime film series from 1959 to 1972. Third, revised and expanded edition . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-89602-645-3 , p. 459 .
- ↑ Original film poster at Moviepilot