New York Express
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | New York Express |
| Original title | Blindfold |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1965 |
| length | 101 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Philip Dunne |
| script | Philip Dunne W. H. Menger |
| production | Marvin Schwartz |
| music | Lalo Schifrin |
| camera | Joseph MacDonald |
| cut | Ted J. Kent |
| occupation | |
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New York Express is an American spy thriller with heavily comedic undertones from 1965 by Philip Dunne . The main roles are played by Rock Hudson and Claudia Cardinale . The film is based on the novel Blindfolded (1960) by Lucille Fletcher .
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The psychiatrist Dr. Snow is approached by a man on one of his morning rides through Central Park who claims he is with the National Security Agency, the NSA . His boss, General Pratt, asks for Snow's help in a delicate case. A former patient of Snow, a certain Arthur Vincenti, urgently needs Snow's care again, as he is currently in very bad mental health and has obviously suffered a nervous breakdown. Pratt remains silent about details and otherwise acts very mysteriously. The general does not even want to say anything about the current whereabouts of the brilliant physicist, in which numerous foreign governments are showing great interest. Pratt's confidante Parker would pick him up, Snow, that evening and bring him to Vincenti. Hardly back in his office when Dr. Snow immediately pulls out Vincenti's old medical record when a young, stuttering man enters the premises. He calls himself James Fitzpatrick and asks for an urgent appointment with the respected psychiatrist. A little later, Snow is picked up by the NSA contact. You drive to an airfield where Snow meets the general again. Then you take off in a small plane, the beginning of a regular shuttle service from the city on the Hudson to the unknown destination, called the "New York Express".
On site, in the middle of the night and somewhere in the middle of nowhere, Snow's eyes are blindfolded for safety reasons (hence the US film title “Blindfold”) so that he cannot find out where he is and where he is being driven. In a remote house in the middle of the Florida swamps, called "Base X", Dr. Snow immediately started talking to his former patient Arthur, the eminent scientist. But it falls on him immediately and screams the words “You traitor!”. General Pratt thinks that the protégé must be a case of paranoia, because Vincenti attacks each of the visitors. When Snow asked why the patient was not simply put in a military hospital, the general meekly replied that Vincenti had been taken here without any legal basis. According to Pratt, kidnapping is actually what they are doing here, but it is also the only way to prevent America's enemies from getting their hands on the scientist. That same night, General Pratt flew Snow back on the New York Express, because Snow had to stick to his old habits in order not to attract attention from the enemy.
The next morning a young lady in red is already waiting for Dr. Snow in Central Park. With full intent, she races towards Snow and his horse on her bike and lies down in front of the hooves. The woman pretends to be injured. It pulls off such a show that Snow, as a gentleman, feels downright obliged to take it to his practice first. The lady claims to be a ballet dancer named Victoria Vail. When Snow is briefly distracted by a phone call with General Pratt, she rummages through Snow's files. Then she disappears. In a panic, Snow tries to find out where the mysterious woman might be and finally finds her in a nightclub where she works as a dancer. There she explains to him that she is Arthur Vincenti's sister Vicky. She would have been called the day before by Arthur who said he was being held by Snow and a general. So she, Vicky, wanted him, Dr. Snow, report it to the police now. There is a scuffle between the two. Vicky starts screaming and the door opens. The press took photos and Vicky told a police officer that Dr. Snow has become intrusive and, moreover, is a spy who detains her brother. She really wants to advertise. The patrolman takes Bartholomew Snow away.
At the station, the interrogating police officer received a call apparently initiated by Pratt, according to which everything was in order with Arthur Vincenti and no kidnapping was reported. Snow leaves the area accompanied by the spirited Vincenti sister. She is boiling with rage because she still believes in her brother's kidnapping and wants to tell the press crowd waiting at the door about it. Snow, who wants to avoid any fuss, turns the tables and tells the reporters that the young lady is his somewhat over-excited fiancée and kisses Vicky, who is fighting violently, as proof. Bartholomew tells Vicky little about Arthur's stay in an unknown location and that he did not kidnap her brother. When General Pratt calls Snow, he is furious that the psychiatrist in New York caused such a stir with his appearance in front of the press. Already waiting in his office is Mr. Fitzpatrick, the new patient whom Snow could not attend to the last time when events had rolled over. Fitzpatrick claims to be from the CIA and investigating Arthur Vincenti, who disappeared from his apartment without a trace. Snow remains suspicious and pretends to only vaguely remember Vincenti, his former patient. Fitzpatrick knows General Pratt too and claims that he is really not who he claims to be, but a spy. To gain Snow's trust, Fitzpatrick offers Snow to double-check his identity in Washington. If Snow doesn't talk, Fitzpatrick said, he'll come back the next morning with an arrest warrant. To get clarity in this thicket of lies and allegations, Snow calls both the CIA and the NSA, but no one there feels authorized to give him information.
At the next New York Express, Dr. Snow accordingly tense towards General Pratt on the plane. When he arrives at “Base X”, Arthur Vincenti is already waiting for him. This time he is Dr. Snow is much more open-minded, as he reads the message and photo in the newspaper that his sister Vicky and the psychiatrist want to get married. Since the doctor doesn't know who to trust, he breaks off Vincenti's treatment and is snapped at by General Pratt. Back in New York, Vicky wants to meet Bartholomew again, but has to see him being dragged away by several men. They bring him to Fitzpatrick, who wants his henchmen to get the information out of Snow about where "Base X" is. But even if he wanted to, so Snow, he could not say where Pratt Vincenti was, because he would be blindfolded every time he went there and back. When Snow realizes that he is unlikely to get out of here alive, he starts to fight back violently with a paddle boat. When several sailors, picked up by Vicky in Central Park, come ashore as Vicky's auxiliary force, the villains flee. Vicky takes the opportunity to introduce Snow to his future in-laws. Pratt is extremely concerned about the whole development and says that from now on he will forego Snow's cooperation and Snow recommends the general a colleague for the continuation of Vincenti's treatment. He also has to part with Vicky. When he intends to do so, Vicky's exuberant temper breaks through, and they both engage in a battle of words. Shortly afterwards, General Pratt contacts his unfamiliar Snow colleague and does not know who he is up to when suddenly Fitzpatrick stands in front of him, whom General Pratt is taking with him on the next flight on the New York Express to Florida.
When Snow found out about his psychiatrist colleague lying in bed, he suspected something bad: The colleague was taken out of circulation and someone else is now taking his position on the flight to "Base X". The FBI, which Snow asks for help, refuses, and so he alone takes the lead. Although he was always blindfolded on all journeys, Snow had all the noises in his ears on the drive from the airport to the house, where the now highly endangered Vincenti is being held, including a violent chatter from wild geese. In painstaking detail work, Snow, who is now wanted by the police, actually manages to locate the house with Vincenti. With the help of Vicky's uncle, Snow and Victoria can leave New York, whose arterial roads are strictly controlled by the police, by pickup truck. The two of them approach "Base X" on secret paths, last on a mule . To reach the house, Vicky and Snow even have to wade through the swamp water, where some hungry alligators are already waiting for them. Meanwhile, Fitzpatrick and his men have taken the base and arrested General Pratt and his men. Only Captain Davis managed to escape and came across Vicky and Snow in the swamps. The three of them plan to take the building to prevent Fitzpatrick from escaping with Arthur Vincenti. With an explosion on one of the boats lying on the water, Fitzpatrick and his family are distracted and lured out of the house. Meanwhile, the three newcomers sneak into the building from the basement and free General Pratt and Arthur Vincenti. Fitzpatrick recognizes the diversionary maneuver, but is verbally lulled by Snow, while Pratt, Vincenti, Davis and Vicky escape. Even though Snow is under fire, he can save himself by jumping into the water. Fitzpatrick lets cars chase those fleeing on the water and shoot them from there. A hunt through the nocturnal swamps begins. Fitzpatrick's men were able to catch up with the refugees, when at the very last moment an armada of military boats appeared and brought the rescue.
Production notes
New York Express was made in January / February 1965 in New York City and several locations in Florida. The film was Philip Dunne's last cinema production and was presumably premiered in Germany on December 23, 1965. The US premiere took place on May 25, 1966.
Robert Arthur took over the production management. The film structures were designed by Alexander Golitzen and Henry Bumstead , while George Milo and John P. McCarthy were responsible for the equipment . The costumes for Claudia Cardinale are by Jean Louis . Joseph Gershenson took care of the musical supervision of Lalo Schifrin's composition. Albert Whitlock was responsible for the background painting, Bud Westmore for the masks and makeup.
synchronization
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Dr. Bartholomew Snow | Rock Hudson | Gert Günther Hoffmann |
| Vicky Vincenti | Claudia Cardinale | Beate Hasenau |
| General Pratt | Jack Warden | Arnold Marquis |
| James Fitzpatrick | Guy Stockwell | Eckart Dux |
| Arthur Vincenti | Alejandro Rey | Herbert Stass |
| Detective Harrigan | Brad Dexter | Martin Hirthe |
| Michelangelo Vincenti | Vito Scotti | Klaus Miedel |
| Smitty | Anne Seymour | Elisabeth Ried |
| Mario Vincenti | John Megna | Ilya Richter |
Reviews
In Kay Weniger's Das Großes Personenlexikon des Films , Philip Dunne's biography reads the following: “'New York Express' was a cleverly constructed thriller with comedic flecks that, somewhat reminiscent of Hitchcock's ' The Invisible Third ', did indeed with the Works by the British 'Master of Suspense'. "
In the lexicon of international films it says: “A psychiatrist in love, as a hero against his will, outwits dangerous agents. A successful mixture of thriller, comedy and love story. "
Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide said the “attractive cast stagger around in a film that vacillates between comedy and mystery. Slapstick scenes seem inappropriate when Hudson is embroiled in international espionage with a prominent scientist. "
Halliwell's Film Guide characterized the film as a "lively spy parody with excessive slapstick between the hitchcock-like tension sections".
Individual evidence
- ^ The information to be read in the IMDb about a German premiere on December 23rd. 1966 is wrong
- ↑ New York Express in the German synchronous file
- ^ The large personal lexicon of films, Volume 2, p. 477. Berlin 2001
- ^ New York Express. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 10, 2019 .
- ^ Leonard Maltin: Movie & Video Guide, 1996 edition, p. 128
- ^ Leslie Halliwell : Halliwell's Film Guide, Seventh Edition, New York 1989, p. 119
Web links
- New York Express in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- New York Express at the American Film Institute