Dynamite in green silk
Dynamite in Green Silk is a German-Italian crime film that was shot in the fall of 1967 under the direction of Harald Reinl in West Berlin , in Yugoslavia and in the United States . It is the sixth part of the Jerry Cotton film series from Constantin Film Distribution from the 1960s. The premiere of the film took place on February 29, 1968 in the Passage-Kino in Saarbrücken .
action
An unscrupulous gang of gangsters bombs a chemical plant in Culver City to steal a bottle of poison gas. While pursuing the perpetrators, the police find a seriously injured member of the gang. His last words are "Stone" and "Dartmoor Cell 214". Butt Lancaster, the Los Angeles Police Chief , asks the FBI for help because it is not Stone Organization's first serious crime. Meanwhile, Phil Decker receives information from Scotland Yard that a prisoner named Rick Trevor will be released from Cell 214 in Dartmoor the next day. He is an alarm disabling specialist who is apparently supposed to work for Stone.
While Trevor is expected to arrive in Los Angeles at any time, FBI agent Jerry Cotton is acquiring the skills and habits of the released convict. In fact, the police can temporarily arrest Rick Trevor at the airport under a pretext and smuggle Cotton into the gangsters under a false identity. In the Green Silk Bar, the headquarters of the gangster gang, Cotton meets their boss Bloom and the barmaid Lana. From the opaque attorney Tackley, who works with the gangsters, Cotton, as alleged Trevor, receives the order to spy on the alarm system of a certain Santon. On behalf of the man behind Stone, Cotton is supposed to study the state-of-the-art system within a few days in order to crack it - a task that cannot be solved, as Phil Decker finds out, to whom Cotton can play a microfilm with pictures of the system.
Before the big coup can start, however, Bloom and his people rob a newly developed " absorber " from Cape Kennedy . Cotton has to prove his skills and paralyze the alarm system there. A little later, the FBI man learns from the barmaid Lana that he will be killed by Trevor after completing his next assignment. Cotton can pass on further information to Phil Decker, but his assumption that the planned robbery was about the Santon painting collection turns out to be wrong. Instead Cotton is forced to accompany the gangsters at the company "Mayflower".
In broad daylight the crooks penetrate the diamond exchange through the sewer system . There, Jerry Cotton, who the gangsters still believe to be Rick Trevor, is supposed to switch off an alarm system at gunpoint within three minutes, which is even more complicated and modern than the one in Santon's villa. Thanks to a drawing that Phil Decker was able to smuggle into him, Cotton overcomes this system too. The gangsters finally lead the initially stolen poison gas into the building and with the help of the stolen absorber they steal an entire suitcase of diamonds. Meanwhile, Cotton ends up in the combustion chamber of a heating system on Blooms' behalf. At the last second, the FBI man can free himself, set off the alarm system and escape with the suitcase.
At the FBI, Cotton learns that the real Rick Trevor is now at large. Still, Cotton returns to the Green Silk Bar to discover Stone's true identity. However, he ends up in a trap by the mysterious Mabel and is kidnapped with Lana to a hiding place in Barstow . Cotton escapes again and finds out that the millionaire Santon is the wanted man behind Stone. A wild chase breaks out along the California coast. On a boat, Cotton can catch both Santon and his accomplice Mabel.
History of origin
prehistory
The early 1967 Jerry Cotton film The Brooklyn Murderers Club (director: Werner Jacobs ), the first color film in the series, once again turned out to be extremely good business. For its sequel, which initially still bore the working title Dynamite in Red Silk , the Constantin Filmverleih initially planned to be directed by Alfred Vohrer . The contract director Harald Reinl , who had just staged the successful major project The Nibelungs , was originally scheduled for other film projects in 1967:
- Winnetou and Captain Kaiman (after Karl May , with Pierre Brice , Joachim Fuchsberger , Karin Dor , Mario Girotti , Eddi Arent ), not realized
- Schloß Schreckenstein / The water pit and the pendulum (after Edgar Allan Poe ), realized in 1967 under the title The snake pit and the pendulum
- Homecoming to Björndal (as a continuation of Das Erbe von Björndal , with Götz George , Karin Dor , Brigitte Horney , Carl Lange ), not realized
- Christina Maria (after Igor von Percha, with George Hamilton , Geneviève Bujold , Robert Hoffmann , Klaus Kinski ), not realized
Since Reinl's projects were postponed indefinitely, except for The Snake Pit and the Pendulum , he took over the direction of the Jerry Cotton film Dynamite in Green Silk . Because the subsequent film project The Dog from Blackwood Castle , which was also intended for Reinl, could be realized earlier than planned, it was ultimately handed over to Alfred Vohrer.
production
The shooting of the German-Italian coproduction Dynamit in Green Silk took place from September 12 to November 9, 1967 in West Berlin , on the Dalmatian coast and in Los Angeles . The studio recordings were made in the Ufa film studios in Berlin-Tempelhof . As art director was Ernst H. Albrecht committed. Vera Mügge took on the costume advice . The recordings in the United States , in which no actors were involved, filmed Henry von Javorsky. The recordings in Yugoslavia were made with the assistance of Triglav Film ( Ljubljana ). Franz Wilhelm was responsible for the special effects .
Filming locations in Berlin included:
- Kleiststrasse / Keithstrasse with the House of Advertising , Berlin-Schöneberg : fight on the high-rise roof
- Villa Marlier (Villa of the Wannsee Conference ), Berlin-Wannsee : Villa Santon
Film music
Peter Thomas used the Jerry Cotton March, recorded in 1965, as the theme music, as well as numerous new melodies, including:
- High crime 0:54
- In Soho 1:49
- Love is Swinging in the Air (Instrumental) 1:39
- The Evil Eye 1:09
- Readheads 1:10
Many other titles on the soundtrack have not yet appeared on recordings.
synchronization
As with the following two films, the dubbing at the Berliner Union was created under the direction of Karlheinz Brunnemann , who also roughly revised the dialogues. The actors Claus Holm , Dieter Eppler , Käthe Haack and Horst Niendorf can be heard in the German version with their own voices. Other actors were dubbed by the following speakers :
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Jerry Cotton | George Nader | Gert Günther Hoffmann |
| Phil Decker | Heinz Weiss | Karlheinz Brunnemann |
| Lana | Silvia Solar | Beate Hasenau |
| Mabel | Marlies Draeger | Traudel Haas |
| Bloom | Carl Möhner | Rainer Brandt |
| Gerald Santon | Karlheinz Fiege | Lothar Blumhagen |
| Attorney Tackley | Günther Schramm | Jürgen Thormann |
| Fat | Rainer Basedow | Edgar Ott |
| Tommie | Hans Waldherr | Wolfgang Amerbacher |
reception
publication
The FSK released the film on January 4, 1968, from 12 years of age. The film, which premiered on February 23, 1968 in the Passage-Kino in Saarbrücken, was able to build on the commercial success of its predecessors. At the same time as the cinema release, Bastei-Verlag published a special volume of the same name in the booklet series by an anonymous author. In March of the same year filming began on the sequel Death in the Red Jaguar , again directed by Harald Reinl. On October 9, 1968 dynamite in green silk was premiered in Italy under the title Il più grande colpo della malavita americana (Italian for the greatest blow of the American underworld ). On August 4, 2004, the age rating for DVD releases was downgraded to six years.
Reviews
"Exciting thriller, improbable in some technical details."
“It is staged solid and honest, as crime thriller home cooking for everyday use. Nobody is disappointed here, but nobody is upset either, because this kind of thriller dramaturgy is all too well known. "
“Jerry Cotton lives twice, too, according to the well-known crime scheme, this time he has taken on two dangerous jobs, but there is little time for compensatory sports with smart bartenders. Diamond robbery carried out with the highest technical perfection is a tough man's business, unfortunately the only woman involved in the game always shoots wrong. "
media
DVD
- G-man Jerry Cotton. Collectors Edition 6 DVD box set. Cinema world . 2004. Order no. 500820
Soundtrack
Individual evidence
- ↑ 89 minutes for cinema projection (24 images / second), 85 minutes for television playback (25 images / second), film length: 2429 meters
- ↑ Michael Petzel: Karl-May-Filmbuch . Karl-May-Verlag, Bamberg 1998, ISBN 3-7802-0153-4 , p. 479 .
- ↑ 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. 338-341 .
- ↑ Release certificate (PDF; 72 kB) from the FSK
- ↑ Dynamite in green silk. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
literature
- Joachim Kramp, Gerd Naumann: The Jerry Cotton Films. When Jerry Cotton came to Germany. Ibidem Verlag 2011. ISBN 3-8382-0213-9
Web links
- Death and Diamonds in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Dynamite in green silk at Filmportal.de
- Dynamite in green silk ( Memento from December 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) at deutscher-tonfilm.de