Streets of the night
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Streets of the night |
| Original title | Hustle |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1975 |
| length | 120 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Robert Aldrich |
| script | Steve Shagan |
| production | Robert Aldrich |
| music | Frank De Vol |
| camera | Joseph F. Biroc |
| cut | Michael Luciano |
| occupation | |
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Streets of the Night (Original title: Hustle ) is an American thriller with Burt Reynolds and Catherine Deneuve from 1975. The novel City of Angels by Steve Shagan , who also wrote the screenplay, served as a literary model .
action
When the body of a young woman is found on a Los Angeles beach , Lieutenant Phil Gaines and his partner Sergeant Louis Belgrave are entrusted with the case. As it turns out, the dead woman is a prostitute named Gloria Hollinger, who broke up with her parents and slipped first into the porn industry and then into the red light district . According to the pathologist's findings , Gloria committed suicide with a drug overdose. For Phil's superior Santuro, the case is over. Phil, who left his wife Nancy after catching her in bed with another man, is hoping to take a trip to Rome with his girlfriend, call girl Nicole Britton . But first he has to go to another mission. A deranged man named Bellamy has taken hostages in a factory. He has already shot two women and holds a gun to the head of a third. While Phil is talking to him, his partner Belgrave sneaks up over the roof and opens a window. When Belgrave jumps through the window, Phil draws his gun and shoots Bellamy.
Gloria's father Marty, a veteran from the Korean War , cannot be convinced of his daughter's alleged suicide and decides to do his own research. He learns from Gloria's friend Peggy that Gloria worked in a strip club and was most recently at a party with a certain Leo in Pasadena . Marty goes to the strip club and looks for the owner Herbie Dalitz. Meanwhile, Phil and Nicole are watching the movie A Man and a Woman in the cinema . In a bar, Phil then confesses that Nicole's existence as a call girl bothers him. When Nicole is on the phone with one of her customers at home, Phil takes the receiver from her hand and hangs up. They get into an argument and Nicole prepares to leave him. Fighting with each other, they land on a bed and Phil begins to kiss them. Nicole beats him, but then gives herself to him.
Belgrave, who, like Marty, is not convinced of Gloria's suicide, gets Phil to reopen the case - especially since the shady lawyer Leo Sellers, one of Nicole's clients, is suspected to have something to do with Gloria's death. Belgrave and Phil find Marty with wounds in his house. Phil wants Marty to stop his research and promises to solve the case. At the strip club, Phil learns from Herbie Dalitz that Leo Sellers became aware of Gloria through nude photos and had ordered her to his home. Phil then meets with Leo in a bar. The latter protests his innocence, whereupon Phil tries to put him under pressure: Leo is also connected to the deaths of three men who were blown up in a car. As an alibi, however, Leo claims to have been in bed with Nicole at the time of the crime. Phil is calm. However, he admits to Nicole that he suffers badly from sleeping with other men - because he genuinely loves her.
Marty, who, it turns out, was not Gloria's biological father, appears on the police department. Because he does not want to believe that Gloria made sex films, Phil shows him such a film on a screen in which both Gloria and Peggy can be seen. Marty then wants to find out the last name of certain Leo from Peggy and begins to hit and choke her. After Peggy tells him the name, she calls Belgrave and Phil. When the two investigators arrive at Leo Sellers' house, a shot is fired. Leo's butler lies dead in the entrance hall, Leo finds them dead in his office. Marty sits across from him with a gun in hand. Phil takes the gun with a cloth, shoots the dead Leo in the chest and Marty in the shoulder, and then puts the gun in Leo's hand. It should look like Leo pulled his gun, injured Marty and shot himself in the scuffle. Belgrave is reluctant to cover this alleged sequence of events. Phil then calls Nicole from a phone booth. He finally wants to fly to Rome with her and she should get ready for the next flight. Before he goes to the airport, he goes to a store. There he is caught in an exchange of fire during a robbery and is fatally wounded. Nicole, who is waiting for him at the airport, realizes that Phil is dead when Belgrave approaches her with a sad face.
background
Filming took place from November 1974 to January 1975 in Los Angeles , Marina del Rey and Pasadena . Burt Reynolds had with director Robert Aldrich previously the film The Longest Yard ( The Longest Yard , 1974) turned. But while the predecessor was a box office hit, Streets of the Night proved to be a flop after the thriller hit US theaters on December 25, 1975. In Germany , the film was shown in cinemas for the first time on March 4, 1976. In 2005 it was released on DVD. Until 2014, the film was only released for people over the age of 18 in full. After a re-examination by the FSK, it is now available in full from the age of 16.
Reviews
For the lexicon of international film , Straßen der Nacht was a "[s] exciting, routinely staged thriller". According to Cinema , director Robert Aldrich drew "an evil study of society in modern film noir". The conclusion was: "Clarified thrill: cool, elegant and sexy."
German version
The German synchronous arrangement was created by the Berliner Synchron Wenzel Lüdecke. Lutz Arenz wrote the dialogue book and Dietmar Behnke directed the dialogue .
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Lieutenant Phil Gaines | Burt Reynolds | Norbert Langer |
| Nicole Britton | Catherine Deneuve | Hallgard Bruckhaus |
| Marty Hollinger | Ben Johnson | Wolfgang Lukschy |
| Sergeant Louis Belgrave | Paul Winfield | Christian Brückner |
| Paula Hollinger | Eileen Brennan | Barbara Ratthey |
| Leo Sellers | Eddie Albert | Friedrich Schoenfelder |
| Santuro | Ernest Borgnine | Arnold Marquis |
| bus driver | James Hampton | Joachim Kerzel |
| robber | Robert Englund | Hans-Jürgen Dittberner |
| Foot fetishist | George Memmoli | Wolfgang Draeger |
Web links
- Streets at night in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Streets at night at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Synopsis, criticism and posters for the film on der-film-noir.de
- Pictures of the film on cinema.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Streets of the Night. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ cf. cinema.de
- ↑ Streets of the Night. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on March 2, 2017 .