Like a flash
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Like a flash |
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| Country of production | Federal Republic of Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1970 |
| length | 218 minutes |
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| Director | Rolf von Sydow |
| script |
Francis Durbridge Marianne de Barde (German translation) |
| production |
Joachim Glaser , Fred Ilgner Westdeutscher Rundfunk Cologne |
| music | Sam Spence |
| camera | Dieter Naujeck |
| cut | Wolfgang Richter |
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Like a Blitz is a three-part German crime film from 1970 that was produced by the Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln . It is one of the series of Durbridge films that became street sweepers in Germany in the 1960s and 1970s . The multi-part series was directed by Rolf von Sydow .
action
Real estate agent Gordon Stewart and his young wife Diana prepare for a vacation trip to Nice. On the day of his departure, Gordon is lured into an empty property for sale by his colleague Mark Paxton under a pretext, and murdered there by shooting in the face. Diana is there too, she has a relationship with Mark Paxton. He first hides the body in the trunk of his car and puts it in a garage. However, when he wanted to get rid of the corpse on the evening of the day after the police called for Gordon's disappearance ended their mission for that day, it had disappeared. At the same time, Diana receives a call from Gordon, who is believed to be dead, asking her to identify the body as his if it is found. The next day, in a quarry, a body with a completely disfigured face was found wearing Gordon's clothes. Diana identifies the body as her husband's.
The next morning, Diana's friend Emely Brown appears and tells him that she too had received a call from Gordon. He is not feeling well and he asks Diana to meet him in a junkyard. Mark Paxton thinks this is a trap and advises her not to visit the junkyard. Diana drives there despite his warning and meets the police who have just found Gordon's body. Meanwhile, Mark receives a phone call from pet shop owner Kitty Tracey, who tells him that Diana has been arrested for the murder of her husband. Mark drives home to pack his bags and flee, and is very astonished when Diana appears shortly afterwards at his front door and is not arrested. Because the two of them want to know why Kitty lied to Tracey Mark, Diana calls her to arrange a meeting. When she enters the shop at the specified time, she finds a bloody knife and her friend Emely lying lifeless on the stairs. Since Diana thinks she is dead, she flees in a panic. When she and Mark went to the crime scene that evening to destroy any evidence that might speak against her, Emely's body had disappeared. Instead, they find Kitty Tracey's body. When the two arrive at Diana's house, they meet Emely, who contrary to Diana's original assumption, is not dead, and her husband. Diana is completely desperate.
Contrary to all expectations, a new testament for Gordons has the expected small legacy for the Stewart's housekeeper and a legacy of only 9,000 pounds for Diana; the rest of the fortune is to go to Diana Valesco, Gordon's secret lover. Mark contacts her in her London apartment and threatens her with the fact that Diana will contest the will. He strongly advises her to come to an agreement with her. He tries to ingratiate himself with the beautiful Italian. Diana informs Diana of his attempts and since she has received an anonymous letter informing her that he is cheating on her and that he wants to go abroad that evening, she becomes more than suspicious. When Mark comes back to Diana from London that evening, he finds Ned Parker, a good friend of Gordon's, who has offered to help Diana. When Ned leaves, Diana makes a scene in which Mark admits that he is no longer attracted to him as a not rich widow. Diana shoots him and leaves the house in a panic. She caused a car accident. When she returned to her house the next morning, Mark's body had disappeared. In a phone call, an unfamiliar voice orders her to come into the house where she and Mark Gordon murdered. There she would get clarification. At the same time, Emely appears at Inspector Clay. She admits that she was blackmailed by Kitty Tracey and wanted to hand over the monthly extortion money that evening. When she appeared in their apartment, she received a blow and passed out.
When Diana arrives at the house where she and Mark Gordon killed, Ned Parker awaits her, who informs her that he has made the bodies disappear. He did the whole thing out of love for her and wanted to flee with her. He has enough money from dubious deals and can finance an escape. Since the police have tracked them down in the meantime, they are followed and try to escape Ned in a motorboat. The police chase them with a hovercraft and a wild chase develops, in the course of which Diana is arrested and Ned, who can escape to the beach in a diving suit, is caught by Inspector Clay and fatally in a scuffle between the two Cliffs falls.
background
Like a lightning bolt was first broadcast on ARD on April 9, 11 and 12, 1970 in three episodes of 68, 70 and 80 minutes. The film was the first Durbridge crime thriller to be shot in color. It was shot on location in England in 1969 and 1970.
It is based on the crime novel "Bat out of hell" by Francis Durbridge. This was also filmed several times, so z. B. in Great Britain under this title as 5 parts in 1966, in France under the title Á Corps perdu in 5 episodes in 1970 and in Italy in 1971 under the title Come un uragano .
Web links
- Like a flash in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Like lightning at filmportal.de
- Like a bolt of lightning at Krimihomepage (krimiserien.heimat.eu)
Individual evidence