Murder night in Manhattan

Movie
German title	Murder night in Manhattan
Original title	Murder night in Manhattan
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1965
length	89 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16
Rod
Director	Harald Philipp
script	Alex Berg , KB Leather
production	Constantin Film GmbH; Allianz Filmproduktion, Berlin ( Heinz Willeg ) Collaboration: Prodex, Paris
music	Peter Thomas
camera	Walter cloth
cut	Alfred Srp
occupation
George Nader : Jerry Cotton Heinz Weiss : Phil Decker Monika Grimm : Sally Daniel Dimitri Alec Korsky Silvie Solar : Wilma de Loy Peter Kuiper : Bob Sigurd Fitzek : Patrick Allen Pinson : Jenkins Elke Neidhart : Sophie Latimore Henri Cogan : Bruce Willy Semmelrogge : Doc Paul Muller : Deweey Uwe Reichmeister : Billy Walter Bluhm : Billy's grandfather Dirk Dautzenberg : Giuseppe Richard Münch : Mr. High Kurd Pieritz : Eriksen

Murder Night in Manhattan is the second film in the Jerry Cotton series in the 1960s.

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The Hundred Dollar Gang around Alec Korsky regularly extorted 100 dollars from small business people in New York City . Pizza shop owner Giuseppe cannot pay and is shot before he can notify the police. The only eyewitness to the murder is Billy, whose grandfather is also being blackmailed by the gang.

After a failed murder attempt on Billy, Jerry Cotton sets a trap for the gang with the help of gas station operator Sophie Latimore. To this end, his partner Phil Decker takes the place of the petrol station operator and is soon visited by the gang. When Decker refuses to pay protection money, the gang sets the gas station on fire. Cotton and Decker pursue the gang to a ramshackle building. The gang realizes that Cotton has seen the face of the debt collector and sacrifices him. The debt collector is seriously injured by a bomb and shortly before he dies, he points out Wilma de Loy's Goldfish Club. The gang now wants to take revenge on the petrol station operator Sophie Latimore, but Cotton anticipates this. Sophie Latimore's death is faked and the gang is largely arrested at the Goldfish Club.

A leader (Alec Korsky) escapes, but is followed by Cotton to a supermarket, where Korsky also happens to meet the boy Billy and takes him hostage to his boss Eriksen. While Cotton is busy with Eriksen's assistant and makes them harmless, Eriksen can escape with Billy. Cotton follows Eriksen to an airport. There there is an argument between Eriksen and his lover Wilma de Loy about what should happen to the little boy. Eriksen shoots Wilma and tries to escape with the boy in an airplane and is shot by Wilma. Finally, Cotton saves Billy from the plane that has already taken off.

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Filming took place in Hamburg, Munich and New York City from 1965 to September. The premiere took place on November 25, 1965.

Reviews

"... Whereby the sympathetic hero again introduces more logic than fist work in terms of action and [...] makes the strip very exciting for more solid crime film lovers."

- Paimann's film lists , December 15, 1965

"Little carefully made, but sufficiently exciting police film."

- Lexicon of international film

"Unfortunately, technically insufficient."

- Heyne film dictionary

Web links

• Manhattan Night of Murder in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• The night of the murder in Manhattan at filmportal.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Murder Night in Manhattan. (No longer available online.) In: old.filmarchiv.at. Paimann's film lists , No. 2981_1, December 15, 1965, archived from the original on October 12, 2016 ; accessed on October 12, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Murder Night in Manhattan. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed October 12, 2016 .  
3. ↑ Heyne Film Lexicon, 1996.