A man named Harry Brent
A man named Harry Brent is a three-part German crime film from 1968 that was produced by Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln . It is one of the series of Durbridge films that became street sweepers in Germany in the 1960s and 1970s . The director of the multi-part series produced for WDR was Peter Beauvais .
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Jane Conway wants to marry her fiancé Harry Brent and therefore quits her job with the manufacturer Samuel Fielding. While looking for a new strength, the applicant Barbara Smith shot him in the middle of the interview. Inspector Wallace, Jane's former fiancé, begins the investigation. He notes that Barbara Smith was sitting with Harry Brent on the train to Guildford, the location of the action, and that she was laying flowers at the grave of Harry Brent's parents before she came to the appointment. There is no discernible motive for her murder of Fielding. Before she can be questioned about her crime, she commits suicide in the remand prison. As she dies, she asks for Harry Brent.
The wife of local supermarket owner William Brother, Philis Brother, reports to the inspector that she happened to hear in a London cafe how an unknown husband had warned Fielding that something might happen to him. Harry Brent is injured by a stone throwing a stone on the estate of his future brother-in-law George Conway. His wallet is stolen from him. This reappears shortly afterwards. Instead of the stolen money, there is a theater ticket for a recent visit to a theater where the dead Barbara Smith is said to have sat right next to him. Brent denies ever being there. During his investigation into this connection, Inspector Wallace comes across the actress Jacqueline Dawson, who is engaged in the theater. During the interrogation, this gave him an address - hidden on a cigarette packet. When the inspector arrives there later, a fight takes place behind the door of the apartment. In the apartment he finds the murdered Philis brother, who has had an apartment there under the name Dawson for a long time. There he discovers footage that shows that Harry had known Brent Fielding for a long time, which he has denied so far.
Wallace tells Jane in confidence about the evidence against Brent and shows her the footage. At a joint dinner in an Italian restaurant in London, at Harry's insistence, Jane finally tells Harry about the evidence that speaks against him. When leaving the pub, Jane and Harry are said to be shot. Due to a friend of Harry's hint, they leave the bar unnoticed through the back entrance and go to Harry's apartment. He promises Jane to explain everything to her there. Harry numbs Jane with a sleeping pill hidden in a drink and takes her to Jacqueline Dawson's apartment. Then events roll over. When Jane wakes up, she manages to escape. Brent and Dawson take up their pursuit.
It turns out that Harry Brent is an agent of a British secret service and was charged with protecting Fielding, who had made a spectacular invention. After Jane's brother George Conway is briefly suspected, Harry is seriously injured with a knife on his estate and is taken to a hospital by Inspector Wallace's employees. It turns out that the man in the background and also murderer of his own wife is William Brother. This has blackmailed Jane's brother, who had a relationship with brother's wife Philis, in order to get to the invention of Fielding and forced the drug addict Barbara Smith to murder Fielding. He is arrested at the George Conways estate. Jane can finally trust her fiancé, who admits he was assigned to work on her as Fielding's assistant, but then fell in love with her.
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A man named Harry Brent was first broadcast on ARD on January 15, 17 and 19, 1968 in three episodes of 60, 61 and 65 minutes. It was filmed in 1967 - partly on location in England. It is the last Durbridge film adaptation in black and white .
It is based on the crime novel A Man Called Harry Brent by Francis Durbridge. He was also filmed several times, so z. B. in Great Britain under this title as 6 parts in 1965, in France under the title Un certain Richard Dorian 1970 in 16 episodes and in Italy 1970 under the title Un certo Harry Brent also as 6 parts.
Web links
- A man named Harry Brent in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- A man named Harry Brent at filmportal.de
- A man named Harry Brent on Krimihomepage (krimiserien. Heimat.eu)
- A man named Harry Brent at steffi-line.de