Serenade for two pistols

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Movie
German title Serenade for two pistols
Original title Les femmes s'en balancent
Country of production France
original language French
Publishing year 1954
length 109 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Bernard Borderie
script Bernard Borderie
Jacques Vilfrid
music Paul Misraki
camera Jacques Lemare
cut Jean Feyte
occupation
synchronization

Serenade for two pistols (original title: Les femmes s'en balancent ) is a French crime film from 1954 based on the novel Dames Don't Care by Peter Cheyney . The film is Eddie Constantine's third appearance as Lemmy Caution . The French cinema release was on May 5, 1954, and the film was released in West German cinemas on June 30, 1955.

action

In Italy , FBI agent Lemmy Caution is supposed to convict a gang of counterfeiters. He meets his contact Sagers under a false name at the Casa Antica game club. Caution receives initial information from Sagers about the young widow Henrietta and certain letters that would serve as possible evidence in the case. Lemmy then searches Henrietta's apartment, finds and steals the letters. Shortly afterwards, Lemmy finds Sagers murdered in the club. Lemmy learns more details from Police Chief Metts, who informed the FBI. Henrietta was caught trying to deposit counterfeit money at the bank. They protested their innocence and claimed the money from her husband, the punters to have received Gran Worth Ayme. At the height of his success in Rome, he unexpectedly committed suicide by falling into the abyss with his car over a half-finished bridge. The bridge attendant initially gave nothing suspicious as a witness, but at a later questioning he stated that he had seen a lady get out of the car before the crash. Now Lemmy becomes aware of the meaning of the letters which confirm Henrietta's presence in Rome at the time of the crime.

At the nightclub, Lemmy witnesses an argument between Henrietta's friend Jim Malony and the nightclub director Fernandez. Lemmy gets into the game of poker in place of Jim and provokes Fernandez. In the fight that followed, he was able to defeat Fernandez and thus gain Henrietta's attention. He pretends to be a lawyer to Henriette and has reports that her husband's case should be reopened since the police have found out about her presence in Rome and are now assuming a murder. After Lemmy has also questioned Malony, he identifies himself as an FBI agent. Lemmy receives the information from the police chief that two former employees of Granworth are now working in the casa. In addition to the chambermaid Marie, Fernandez turns out to be Granworth's former chauffeur , Jean Termiglio. Henrietta asks Lemmy to speak to him, she confesses to him that she is in Rome at the time in question, and on the evening of her death she had an argument with her husband over the imminent divorce. She received the counterfeit money from your husband. In order not to draw suspicion on her, the secretary advised her husband Burdell to keep quiet about her presence in Rome. On the way back from Henrietta's house, Lemmy can just about face an attack. He then has the widow placed under arrest at Fernandez. In addition, he has the casa phone monitored by the police.

In Rome, Lemmy was confirmed by Burdell Henrietta's story. Burdell continues to admit to having bribed the bridge guard not to mention the woman getting out of the car to the police. When Lemmy's questioning of Fernandez, he also says that he only wanted to protect Henrietta, he names Paulette Benito as Granworth's companion on the day of his death. Caution drives to Bagheria and bursts into a Paulette party in a luxurious villa, when questioned he gets to hear that she has the real money, her husband who worked for Aymes, he had the real money for the flowers on behalf of Granworth exchanged at Henrietta. Now he is lying dying in the hospital. On the way to the hospital, Lemmy is ambushed and captured by some men. However, he managed to escape after a short time. In the hospital, the seriously ill Benito confirms his wife Paulette as the dead man's lover. Caution drives back to Paulette, accuses her of being the client of the robbery and arrests her for the murder of Aymes. In the basement of the casa, Lemmy discovers the counterfeiting and arrests Fernandez as Sager's murderer. He then has Henrietta brought to the station as well.

At the station, Lemmy explains the circumstances to those present. The terminally ill Benito asked the stockbroker Aymes to sell his securities. Aymes paid for the sale with counterfeit money. He gave Henrietta the real money as severance pay as part of the planned divorce. When Benito found out about Paulette's affair with Aymes and recognized the counterfeit money, the patient wanted revenge. He put Aymes, Paulette and brothel in their office. However, Aymes managed to kill Benito. After exchanging clothes with the corpse, Aymes wrote a suicide note and the corpse was driven into the abyss by Paulette. Brothel identified the cremated body to the police and bribed the guard. Aymes, believed dead, now exchanged the real money at Henrietta's for the flowers in order to cast suspicion on his wife.

The exposed Aymes surprises Caution when he accompanies Henrietta to her apartment and demands that Paulette be released. In a duel, Lemmy now defeats the mastermind of the event.

reception

The lexicon of international films describes the film as "... short ... with intense dialogues"

synchronization

The German dubbed version was created in 1956 by Berliner Synchron GmbH under the dubbing direction of Peter Elsholtz based on the dialogue book by Karin Vielmetter

actor Voice actor role
Eddie Constantine Arno Assmann Lemmy Caution
Guy Henry Peter Elsholtz Daredo
Emile Carrer Friedrich Joloff Dr. Madiales
Robert Berri Fritz Tillmann Fernandez / Jean Termiglio
Jacques Castelot Klaus Miedel Granworth Aymes
Nadia Gray Inge Estate Henrietta Aymes
Nicolas Vogel Axel Monjé Jim Maloney
Hélène Constantine Marion Degler Nurse
Francois Perrot Paul Edwin Roth Langdon Burnell
Robert Burnier Siegfried Schürenberg Metts
Dario Moreno Wolfgang Eichberger Moreno
Dominique Wilms Gisela Trowe Paulette Benito
Dominique Bukas Gert Günther Hoffmann Roger Benito
Gil Delamare Gert Günther Hoffmann Sagers

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Serenade for two pistols In: Lexikon des Internationale Films , on: filmdienst.de , accessed March 26, 2020.
  2. ↑ Serenade for two pistols. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on March 26, 2020 .