Rampant (radio play)
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| Radio play from Germany | |
| original language | English |
| Year of production | 2002 |
| publication | 2003 |
| genre | Thriller |
| Duration | 71 min |
| production | MDR / SWR |
| Publisher / label | The audio publishing house |
| Contributors | |
| author | Dick Francis |
| Machining | Alexander Schnitzler |
| Director | Klaus Zippel |
| music | Pierre Oser |
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Zügellos is a detective radio play based on the detective novel of the same name by the English writer Dick Francis , in the radio play adaptation by Alexander Schnitzler and directed by Klaus Zippel . It was produced in 2002 by the broadcasting corporations of the Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk and Südwestrundfunks and was released in August 2003 as a production by Der Audio Verlag . As with all of Francis' other crime novels, the plot is related to horse racing .
action
Thomas Lyon, a young British director , is the first to direct a Hollywood production based on an English bestselling novel. It tells a speculative crime story loosely based on a mysterious death of a young woman in the turf scene several decades ago.
But at the beginning Thomas Lyon is called to the house of his former mentor Valentine Clark, who is also associated with equestrian sport , who is dying, terminally ill. On his deathbed, the latter mistook Lyon for a priest and confessed to him in vague words about a murder of whatever kind against the boy from Cornwall , for which he himself did not want to answer and for which he “destroyed their youth, although they did not know it. “Since the shooting is waiting for Lyon, he cannot take care of it at first.
Because he has extraordinary problems with the author of the literary work, Howard Tyler, who, contrary to his contractual obligation in the further development of the script would not help, fearing for his original and the other demands of the actual underlying events regarding boycotts . The writer even went so far as to launch rumors to the press that allegedly even the actual star of the film, Nash Rourke, spoke negatively about it. Lyon would both disregard the original book and ruin the film. Since Rourke stands in front of Lyon and O'Hara, the producer, also sticks to Lyon, the first unrest around the film seems to be over. But Tyler had echoed the indiscretions to gossip columnist Alison Visborough, who, due to her family's personal involvement through her brother Roddy Visborough, demanded that filming be stopped immediately.
Because of these blackmail attempts, Lyon becomes suspicious and tries to get to the origins of the story. At that time, Sonya Wells, the young wife of the politically ambitious coaching legend Jackson Wells, hanged herself in a barn near Newmarket without leaving a suicide note. Her husband then withdrew his candidacy for the British House of Commons and also gradually withdrew from racing. It would seem that the writer had based his novel on a dull obituary in the equestrian magazine Jockey Club . While Thomas Lyon tries to reach the contemporary witnesses of the time, attacks on his film production and those indirectly involved are increasing.
A masked rider allegedly attacks the star Nash Rourke while filming, but in ignorance only injures his stunt double with a knife, Dorothea Pannier, the sister of the recently deceased mentor, is brutally attacked and almost killed. Only the approach of her son Paul Pannier seems to have saved her. In particular, the possessions of her brother who lives with her appear to have been ransacked. Lyon concludes from this that the stranger or strangers were trying to capture something precious or revealing material. Because in the legacy of the former farrier and horse specialist there was also a detailed racing archive, which Paul Pannier in particular had his eye on in order to keep it in the family's possession. But according to the will, it was intended for Thomas Lyon, who was already able to move parts of it to a safe place.
When Paul Pannier is finally stabbed to death and an attempted murder with a knife on Lyon himself during a day of racing, which only goes smoothly thanks to a protective vest, the Hollywood bosses of the film studio want to pull him away from the project, but this time Nash Rourke stands by him and thanks to the help of Lucy Wells, Jackson Wells' daughter by a second marriage, he can find important details in the archive, such as an illuminating group portrait. In addition, the weapon specialist Professor Derry, who was friends with the late Valentine Clark, gave him important information on the basis of the rare knife that was found, which served as a murder weapon.
The group portrait with the revealing handwritten note “The Gang” showed a group of young men and a woman. With the help of contemporary witnesses, Lyon can decipher the probable course of events: In the Swinging Sixties , under the influence of Name, a group of young equestrian fans who flatly shared everything - even their sexual experiences. Valentine, of all people, had introduced the young jockey Pig to the sexual variety of paraphilia , which he "tried" one night at Sonya Wells' and unintentionally strangled her. The group around Roddy Visborough, Paul Pannier, Pig, Ridley Wells, Sony's brother-in-law, covered up the crime as suicide and successfully deceived the police. During the crime, Jackson Wells himself was in York and only found out weeks later, because one day Ridley Wells "puked" while drunk and confessed to him. As a result, Jackson nearly killed his brother by beating him into unconsciousness. He then went to Jackson to Valentine Clark for advice. But Clark had already come up with the solution based on a confession by his nephew Paul, he himself killed Jackson's Pig with a knife spear forged by himself and had the corpse disappear into a filled well. To hide this, he had spread the rumor that the young jockey from Cornwall was going to try his luck in Australia . This was the deed he wanted to confess to Lyons on his deathbed. He had advised Jackson and the others, however, that they should all live with the crime or go to the police. However, they all decided that this should not come to light under any circumstances, because Roddy Visborough as Sonya's brother should also be kept free from the scandal. But as Jackson Wells himself puts it, "everything went up in the rain", the lives of those involved changed because the friendship broke up and their success at work waned.
The former companions had been startled by the filming and the research. The attack on Mrs. Pannier was carried out by Roddy Visborough, which was only kept from worse by the intervention of Paul Pannier. But because of that he had to die in turn. Lyon sets a first trap for Ridley Wells by hiring him as a stunt rider and identifying him to the audience as the mysterious rider who wanted to carry out the attack on Nash. The leader of the old gang, Roddy Visborough, who is behind the other murders, is ultimately exposed when he tries to steal the supposed final evidence, i.e. the said photo, from the producer's safe , while the director catches him, brings him down and the police arrest Roddy Visborough can.
After the case has been clarified, there seems to be no more stone in the way of a revised version of the script and the shooting.
output
- Rampant . Radio play adaptation: Alexander Schnitzler. Director: Klaus Zippel, production: MDR and SWR, 2002, music: Pierre Oser, 1 CD, length: approx. 71 min. Der Audio Verlag , Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-89813-26-6-8 .
background
The cast of the film star Nash Rourke with the standard dubbing voice Richard Geres Hubertus Bengsch adapts to the template.
review
“Little noise and rare musical interludes, but a fast-paced and exciting crime story emerges. The speakers are convincing, especially them, and it is thanks to the good direction that this radio play becomes an insider tip. If you love exciting crime stories, you've come to the right place. The ending is not served on a silver platter, and so the story is excitingly awaited until the end. The idea that a Hollywood director, of all people, does thorough research in order to make a film seems a bit absurd. "
Web links
- Entry rampant on: www.hoerdat.in-berlin.de. Retrieved April 23, 2012.
- Entry on Zügellos on www.krimi-couch.de. Retrieved April 23, 2012.
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.pierreoser.de. Retrieved April 23, 2012.
- ↑ Dick Francis : Rampant . ( Wild Horses ) . Translated from the English by Malte Krutzsch . Diogenes Verlag, Zurich 1996.
- ↑ http://www.hoernews.de/Einzeltitel/francis_zuegellos.html
- ↑ Detlef Kurtz: Short review of Zügellos . On: www.hoernews. de. Retrieved April 23, 2012.