Mass murder in San Francisco

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Movie
German title Mass murder in San Francisco
Original title The Laughing Policeman
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1973
length 112 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Stuart Rosenberg
script Thomas Rickman
production Stuart Rosenberg
music Charles Fox
camera David M. Walsh
cut Bob Wyman
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Mass murder in San Francisco (original title: The Laughing Policeman ) is an American crime film from 1973 , which was released in German theaters on March 22, 1974.

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A bus full of passengers including Detective Dave Evans is ambushed. All inmates are massacred with MP fire. Evans apparently had been following a man named Gus Niles to obtain information on whether businessman Henry Camarero was connected to the murder of his wife Teresa.

Evans was Inspector Jake Martin's partner on that case. Niles, who was also killed on the bus, emerges as the main target of the attack as he appears to have helped Henry Camarero cover up his involvement in the murder of his wife.

Contrary to the instructions of their superiors, Jake Martin and his new partner Leo Larsen Camarero chase through the city until there is a showdown in another bus.

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The film is based on the novel Endstation for Nine from the novel about a crime by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö . It is the only Anglo-Saxon cinema adaptation of a Sjöwall / Wahlöö novel. The novel won the Edgar Allan Poe Award in 1971 as the first non-English-language novel in the original .

During the filming, the location of the plot was moved from Stockholm to San Francisco and the names of the main characters (Martin Beck, Gunvald Larsson) were Americanized.

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