Allow me my name is Cox (movie)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | My name is Cox |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1955 |
| length | 96 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Georg Jacoby |
| script | Rolf Becker (as "Robecker"), Joachim Wedekind , Georg Jacoby |
| production | Eichberg film ( Carl Opitz ) |
| music | Hans-Martin Majewski |
| camera | Ernst W. Kalinke |
| cut | Alexandra Anatra |
| occupation | |
as well as Lina Carstens , Adolf Ziegler , Harry Hardt , Ulla Melchinger u. v. a. | |
Allow me, my name is Cox is a humorous black and white detective film by director Georg Jacoby , based on the novel series of the same name by the German writer couple Rolf and Alexandra Becker . The film premiered on March 8, 1955 in Duisburg.
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In front of his home in Brussels , the antique dealer Paul Cox meets Annette Dumont, who actually wants to see Andersen, who is supposed to keep her inherited shares. However, they learn that Andersen was murdered. According to the estate administrator, they should find out more about his death in the bar "Allotria", where the singer Vera Walden performs. In the bar, Dumont meets with relatives and during the conversation she is overheard by the waiter Youmac who recommends contacting a private detective he knows. However, this "detective" is the petty criminal and former actor Anton Kraczyk, a brother of Vera Walden. While searching a villa, Kraczyk actually finds the shares and pays a dividend of 300,000 francs for them at the bank.
Before Annette Dumont, Kraczyk claims that Paul Cox was behind the murder and the disappearance of the stocks. Outraged, Dumont confronts Cox, who is of course completely surprised, and when Kraczyk appears and in the presence of Annette asks him to hand over the shares and the dividend at the villa the next morning at six o'clock, he is suspicious and informs his friend, the private detective Richardson.
When the two arrive at the villa the next morning, they find Kraczyk's body and the night watchman Ojevaar, who also arrives, has already alerted the police. When it arrives, Cox and Richardson have already left. Ojevaar claims that the two were the murderers of Kraczyk, but his body has suddenly disappeared. Inspector Carter, after finding a receipt with Paul Cox's name on it, goes to his apartment. Cox and Richardson hear on the radio that the police are looking for them and decide to begin their investigation with the night watchman Ojevaar. You learn from him that Kraczyk was actually a gardener and Vera Walden's brother and that he knows the waiter Youmac. In “Allotria” when they were questioned by the bar host Wilkie, they heard that Youmac and Vera Walden had suddenly left.
When Cox returns to his apartment, Inspector Carter is waiting for him in front of the house. From the street they watch a female shadow in Cox's apartment and when they hurry up, the apartment is completely devastated. Cox suspects Annette Dumont, who was looking for the stocks. Suddenly shots are fired and the lighting is destroyed. Cox sees only two shadows moving away. He learns that Dumont is supposed to be in Knokke and decides to travel there as well. There he first meets Vera Walden, who also thinks Cox is her brother's murderer and who stops him with a conversation while Youmac quickly searches Cox's room for the shares.
Cox is able to convince Annette Dumont that he really has nothing to do with the murder and the disappearance of the stocks. But shortly afterwards he is knocked down by the former boxer Toop and taken to his accommodation in a mill. Toop works with Vera Walden and Cox continues to listen to her until he "confesses" that the shares are in his hotel room. She wants to put him out of action with a sleeping pill in the whiskey, but Cox sees through the plan and just passes out. After Vera and Toop disappear, Cox calls Richardson and gives him a warning. When Vera Walden and Toop arrive at the hotel, Richardson is able to keep them in check with a pistol, but Youmac has meanwhile snuck into Dumont, lured them outside and then kidnapped them. During the pursuit, Cox is stopped by a closed railway barrier and while looking in the signal box he discovers the armed Youmac who has locked Dumont in a shed.
When Richardson arrives at the railroad gate on his motorcycle, he discovers Dumont, but Cox has disappeared. But Dumont has heard that Youmac wants to go to a fishing hut with Vera Walden and Cox. In the fisherman's hut, Youmac and the meanwhile suspicious Walden and Cox are able to secretly persuade them to shed alcohol while preparing grog. When the alcohol burner is lit, the hut is set on fire, which Cox uses to overpower Youmac. When Cox tries to get Walden out of the burning hut, Youmac is able to flee by car. Shortly afterwards, Walden is kidnapped. When Richardson arrives at the cabin, he can tell Cox that, according to his research, Youmac, Toop and Kraczyk were part of a notorious gang of criminals and that Kraczyk, as an actor, often played corpses on stage.
Back in the “Allotria” bar, they meet the businessman Hasafi, who has bought shares from the landlord Wilkie at low prices. When they want to speak to the landlord, a disguised person escapes from his office. While pursuing them, Cox meets Youmac and the seller of the shares on a roof - it is the allegedly murdered Kraczyk. Arriving Inspector Carter manages to arrest the villains brought to the bar. Cox's innocence is proven and Annette is overjoyed when she can receive the recovered shares and the dividend from Cox's hands. When the night watchman Ojevaar, who also arrives, rushes in and says that he has seen Cox's car in front of the bar and that this would be the opportunity to arrest Cox, the only thing the inspector can say is: "He's already caught".
Production notes
The film was produced in the Bavaria Film studio in Geiselgasteig . The outdoor shots were taken in Brussels, Antwerp, Munich and the surrounding area.
Reviews
“ Filming of a radio play series that tries to change the ingredients of the crime film in favor of an amusing and charming note, but produces unreal situations and shadowy characters. "
"Moderately entertaining and moderately exciting."
DVD release
- My name is Cox . Black Hill
Web links
- , My name is Cox in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Allow me, my name is Cox at Filmportal.de
- Sound carrier with film music
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dr. Alfred Bauer: German feature film Almanach. Volume 2: 1946-1955 , p. 510
- ↑ Let me tell you my name is Cox. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed August 3, 2017 .
- ↑ 6000 films. Critical notes from the cinema years 1945 to 1958 . Handbook V of the Catholic film criticism, 3rd edition, Verlag Haus Altenberg, Düsseldorf 1963, p. 156