Hunt for "Z"
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Hunt for "Z" |
| Original title | Paul Temple's triumph |
| Country of production | United Kingdom |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1950 |
| length | 76 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Maclean Rogers |
| script |
AR Rawlinson , Francis Durbridge |
| production | Ernest G. Roy |
| music | Stanley Black |
| camera | Brendan Stafford |
| cut | Sam Simmonds |
| occupation | |
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Hunt for "Z" (DVD title: Paul Temple - Hunt for "Z" ; original title: Paul Temple's Triumph ) is a British crime film from 1950. It is the third of four films to be released on one of the Paul Temple Radio plays by Francis Durbridge are based. The film premiered in May 1950, was shown in the Federal Republic of Germany in 1951 and in Austria in 1952.
action
A mysterious stranger, known to everyone only by the name "Z", heads a dangerous spy group that does not work for any particular state, but is ready to commit crimes on behalf of any power. Paul Temple is involved in the case when the researcher Prof. Hardwick is kidnapped and his daughter asks his wife Steve for help. Hardwick's daughter soon becomes a victim of the mysterious man behind the scenes, but she is not the only corpse. Temple goes to Scotland to investigate the matter. What is certain is that everyone who knows the true identity of "Z" must die. One track leads to a fancy hotel. But where is Prof. Hardwick? Temple has several suspects and can unmask one of them as a perpetrator and ultimately free the missing professor from the clutches of the now exposed "Z".
The other Paul Temple films
- The Green Finger (1946)
- Who is rex (1948)
- Paul Temple and the Marquis Fall (1952)
Others
The film will be released on DVD on September 11, 2015. The story is based on the radio play News of Paul Temple , which Francis Durbridge wrote as a six-part for the BBC in 1939. It was never realized in German, but in 2006 the novel based on it was published for the first time in German under the title Paul Temple and the Case Z (by Aufbau-Verlag)
DVD publications
The film was released by Renown Pictures in English-speaking countries in 2009, and in 2015 Pidax will be releasing a German DVD that contains extensive bonus material (in addition to audio commentary, an interview with Francis Durbridge's son and a Paul Temple short story that has never been translated).
Web links
- Hunt for "Z" in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Paul Temple - Hunt for "Z" on the Francis Durbridge homepage
- Trailer on YouTube