Tim Frazer - The Salinger case

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Movie
Original title Tim Frazer - The Salinger case
Country of production Federal Republic of Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1964
Rod
Director Hans Quest
script Francis Durbridge , Marianne de Barde
production Wilhelm Semmelroth West German Radio Cologne
music William Keiper
camera Karl-Heinz Werner , Otto Heinrich , Paul Ellmerer , Joachim Tolksdorf , Werner Hoffmann
cut Lisgret Klink , Eva Schmidt
occupation

Tim Frazer - The Salinger case is a six-part television play based on a model by the British author Francis Durbridge , which WDR produced in 1963 and first broadcast on German television in January 1964.

It is a sequel to the television play Tim Frazer , which was broadcast a year earlier. The director was again Hans Quest.

After the first two Durbridge six-part series Der Andere and Es ist so far had already been successful, in 1962 Das Halstuch eclipsed everything that had come before. He became the biggest street sweeper on German television and has since become legendary. When Tim Frazer ran on German screens a year later , the enthusiasm of the television audience took on similar proportions.

action

Charles Ross, head of a British secret service, has a new assignment for Tim Frazer. It's about a colleague Leo Salinger who was recently fatally run over by Barbara Day in Amsterdam. Ross doesn't believe in an accident. Tim Frazer therefore travels to Amsterdam and contacts Barbara Day without introducing himself as an investigator. They soon meet the American Martin Cordwell, who is later found murdered by Tim Frazer in Barbara Day's London apartment. Next to the corpse is a metronome that Cordwell previously carried with him. While Frazer is still in Day's apartment, Vivian Gilmore, Barbara Day's business partner, calls. He later meets them in the café "The Dyke". Thanks to various hints, Frazer's trail finally leads to Gordon Dempsey, a dubious managing director of the "International Tulip Bulb Import Export Company". It is apparently about the diamond trade and a man named "Ericson" who is behind the crimes.

background

Hans Quest again directed . It was after It's Time , The Halstuch and Tim Frazer, his last directorial work on a Durbridge film.

A planned third Frazer part, based on the novel Tim Frazer gets the message (German title: Tim Frazer knows Bescheid), was not broadcast until 1971, under the title Das Messer and with a different role name.

The Austrian fictional film made in 1964 under the title Tim Frazer chasing the mysterious Mister X has nothing to do with the character invented by Durbridge except for the name of the title hero, played by Adrian Hoven. The script came from Anton van Casteren and Ernst Hofbauer , who also directed.

After previous and this German Durbridge television adaptations were always at least six-part, the following television adaptations up to Das Messer were produced in three parts.

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