Frankenstein's haunted castle

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Movie
Original title Frankenstein's haunted castle /
Ace Up My Sleeve
Country of production Germany
USA
original language German
Publishing year 1975
length 99 minutes
Age rating FSK 18
Rod
Director Ivan Passer
script Alan R. Trustman
David M. Wolf
William Richert
Ivan Passer
production Robert L. Abrams
music Vangelis
camera Dennis C. Lewiston
cut Bernard Gribble
John Jympson
occupation

Frankenstein's Spukschloß , US release title Ace Up My Sleeve , is a German - American feature film directed by Ivan Passer from 1975. An alternative title is Crime and Passion .

action

André Ferrer is a successful investment banker who, despite daring speculations, is always lucky and increases his clients' money. When he hears that his best customer Hermann Rolf wants to go to the competition, he puts his colleague and lover Susan Winters on him. Susan plays with her charms and soon the wedding between Susan and Hermann takes place. Hermann completely transfers the financial business to André. He, in turn, has made a plan with Susan: After six months, André wants to cause a scandal that leads to Susan and Hermann's divorce and frees his lover for him again.

After a while, a meeting takes place at which André, after a surprising revision, is accused of having embezzled $ 2.5 million from Hermann. He is given ten days to raise the money. André hastily flees to the mountains, where Susan is on vacation with the naive Larry. André is cool about her, a divorce is out of the question: It turns out that Hermann had each of his previous wives killed after the divorce. André, in turn, barely escapes several assassinations, for example he is almost stabbed to death on the slope and shortly afterwards almost run over.

Susan travels back to the castle that belongs to Hermann with Larry. André goes after both of them and wants to stay in a nearby hotel. Here he is almost strangled by the overweight masseuse during a massage and flees to the castle. There Susan tried to seduce Larry, who suddenly saw a supposed castle ghost. When André arrives at the castle, Larry locks him in the wine cellar on Susan's instructions. Shortly afterwards, Susan sends Larry to Switzerland with a letter to be handed in to a certain bank. Larry, however, is shot on the way, while André is shortly afterwards almost stabbed to death in the wine cellar by a being in knight armor. Susan shoots the creature who turns out to be Hermann's watchdog. During the fight, a wall covering fell off and a camera became visible. Susan realizes that the entire castle is monitored by video and that her supposed spiritual unity with Hermann is based only on a fraud, as he was able to follow each of her wishes and actions via video. In fact, Hermann sees everything going on in the castle in his car. He sends his chauffeur to the castle to murder André, but the chauffeur is accidentally killed by Susan. However, she knows that she and André will not have much longer to live because Hermann will kill both of them. She withdraws with André into the bedroom of the castle, where both lie hugging tightly on the bed and wait.

production

Frankenstein's haunted castle is based on James Hadley Chase's novel There's an Ace Up My Sleeve . The shooting took place from January 27 to April 1975 in Vienna and Tyrol (Serfauss-Fiss-Ladis region). The costumes were created by Yvonne Blake , the film structures are by Herta Hareiter . The film was hosted in August 1976 at the Telluride Film Festival. In Germany the film was shown for the first time on February 6, 1976 and was shown for the first time on German television on August 5, 1993 on Sat.1 .

criticism

"Mixture of horror film and crime comedy with unsuccessful satirical attacks on false happiness models," judged the film-dienst , while Cinema described the film as "unimportant".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Frankenstein's haunted castle. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. ↑ See cinema.de