Escape into the tropical night
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Escape into the tropical night |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1957 |
| length | 103 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Paul May |
| script | Johannes Kai |
| production | Constantin Film |
| music | Erwin Halletz |
| camera |
Ekkehard Kyrath , Gerhard Klammet |
| cut | Karl Aulitzky |
| occupation | |
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Escape to the tropical night is a German adventure thriller from the year 1957 , the Paul May staged.
action
Robert Franklin is a businessman who murdered his first wife many years ago but made it appear to the outside world to be an accident. Since then, however, he has been blackmailed by their brother, Mr. Murphy, who knows about the murder. Robert and his wife Barbara travel to see him in Kenya at Murphy's request. Murphy threatens Robert to reveal the murder if he does not pay a large sum. When Robert can no longer get a loan from banks, Murphy leads him to pursue the plan to kill his wealthy wife on a safari in order to collect a recently concluded life insurance policy. The murder should be disguised as an accident in the jungle. Franklin's wife Barbara had met the jungle hunter Peter by chance and insists on taking him through the jungle as a companion. Peter in turn manages to win over Johnny, who is more alcoholic after a hunting accident, as a second companion.
An intimate friendship begins between Peter and Barbara, which their husband Robert, who suffers from pathological jealousy, does not go unnoticed. As a result, a fierce rivalry develops between Robert and Peter, which escalates during the course of the film. In the African bush Robert tries several times to kill his wife, which Peter and Johnny, whose role initially appears dubious, ultimately know how to prevent. After Robert flees alone after an exchange of fire with Peter and kills a man beforehand, the individual jungle tribes set out in search of the murderer, whose fate is sealed in the jungle by a predator.
criticism
"Adventurous crime film with beautiful animal shots from Kenya"
“The frivolous attempt by director Paul May to compete with American jungle films and to have his main actors appear as Americans on top of that resulted in an opus, the simple homeland film talk with exotic crimes, non-local animals and people in an African way Aue mingled. Otherwise, occasionally respectable actors (Bernhard Wicki) fell by the wayside on this film safari. "
Web links
- Escape into the tropical night at filmportal.de
- Escape to the tropical night in the Internet Movie Database (English)