Fatal shots on Broadway

Movie
Original title	Fatal shots on Broadway
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1969
length	89 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16
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Director	Harald Reinl
script	Rolf Schulz , Christa Stern
production	Heinz Willeg
music	Peter Thomas
camera	Heinz Hölscher
cut	Gisela Haller
occupation
George Nader : Jerry Cotton with the voice of Gert Günther Hoffmann Heinz Weiss : Phil Decker with the voice of Jürgen Thormann Heidy Bohlen : Cindy Holden with the voice of Almut Eggert Mihail Baloh : Joe Costello with the voice of Edgar Ott Michaela May : Alice Davis with the voice of Ursula Herwig Horst Naumann : Woody Davis Konrad Georg : Mr. Ross with the voice of Paul Wagner Herbert Fux : Butler Robin with the voice of Christian Rode Manfred Reddemann : Hairy with the voice of Michael Chevalier Karl-Heinz Thomas : Dick Ulli Kinalzik : Freddy with the voice of Wolfgang Draeger Art Brauss : Hank with the voice of Joachim Kemmer Rudolf Fernau : Nasen-Charly Hans Heyde : Johnny Peters Gerhard Frickhöffer : Bob Hiller Klaus-Hagen Latwesen : Tonio Belarminou Gomis : Barman Jim Albert Venohr : Mr. Truman Martin Hirthe : Reception Clerk

Fatal Shots on Broadway is the eighth (and final) film in the Jerry Cotton series from the 1960s. In 2010 another sequel followed under the title Jerry Cotton .

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Joe Costello's gang stole $ 3 million gold bullion from the Federal Reserve Bank. Gang member Johnny Peters is actually an FBI agent and has been smuggled undercover into the gang. He hides the loot in the harbor. After realizing the betrayal, Joe Costello has Johnny Peters shot and is arrested shortly afterwards.

A rival gang, led by Woody Davis, frees Costello to get hold of the loot that no one knows where Peters has hidden. Costello is able to escape his liberators, however, and so agent Jerry Cotton is supposed to take up the chase. Cotton hopes for a clue from Cindy Holden, Johnny Peters' friend, through whom he had already made contact with Costello.

First of all, Joe Costello undergoes facial surgery so that nobody can recognize him. After the successful operation, he shoots the cosmetic surgeon and his assistant in order to eliminate anyone who knows about this new face. An old photo of Costello at the crime scene brings Cotton straight to the bottom of the massacre. So he pushes the search for Cindy Holden, who recently moved to Las Vegas. When he actually finds her there, she agrees, for Peters sake, to help clarify the case. She returns to New York with Cotton and offers herself there as bait to lure Costello out of the reserve. However, not only Costello, but also Davis is after her because they too are convinced that Peters had revealed the hiding place of the gold to her. Although Cindy is being watched, Davis people still manage to bring her under their control. Since she denies knowing about the hiding place, which the men do not believe, a mini-transmitter is secretly implanted under anesthesia.

Costello can cleverly protect himself from being recognized. After Cotton is close on his heels, he flees with a child as a hostage. Cotton takes up the chase and manages to hide in Costello's van, which he uses to escape and can save the child in the end. Costello escapes undetected and can also successfully defend himself against Davis people who hunt him just like Cotton. When they end up meeting, Davis is killed in a firefight and Costello escapes with Cindy. He asks her for her hotel key on which Peters had scratched a note about the hiding place of the gold. When Costello tries to get the booty, he is surprised by Cotton and defeated in a duel.

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The film was shot from November 18, 1968 to January 23, 1969. It was mostly created in the Berlin-Tempelhof studio with exterior shots from New York , Las Vegas , Hamburg and Berlin . It premiered on March 26, 1969 in Stuttgart , Universum. The Syndicate of Dead Souls was originally announced as the 8th Jerry Cotton film , but since there was a script for killshots on Broadway , this film was shot. As a continuation, No. 1 was announced to be canceled, but it was no longer realized.

Karlheinz Brunnemann created the German version . Numerous German actors can be heard with strange voices.

Reviews

Kino.de came to the verdict: “The last of eight German crime novels that tried to transfer the success of the novel series to the screen in the sixties. Although the scheme was slightly varied here and bad guys who fight each other are brought down by the good guy (George Nader), the series had now outlived itself - not least thanks to competition from a certain James Bond. "

The lexicon of international films said: "Stenciled series crime thriller with some unnecessary hardship."

The Evangelischer Film-Beobachter evaluates similarly and wrote: “Technically simple, sensational and with meter goods tension. Superfluous."

Web links

• Dead Body on Broadway in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Fatal shots on Broadway at filmportal.de
• Fatal shots on Broadway ( memento from December 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) at Deutscher-tonfilm.de
• Fatal shots on Broadway at fernsehserien.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Film review from June 2, 2008 at Kino.de , accessed on March 7, 2018.
2. ↑ Fatal shots on Broadway. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed October 6, 2016 .  
3. ↑ Ev. Munich Press Association, Review No. 152/1969