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It Happened in Broad Daylight is a suisse film of genre Drama directed by Ladislao Vajda with Heinz Rühmann

It Happened in Broad Daylight (1958)

Es geschah am hellichten Tag

It Happened in Broad Daylight
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Length 1h35
Directed by
OriginSuisse
Genres Drama,    Thriller,    Crime
Rating77% 3.892783.892783.892783.892783.89278

Es geschah am hellichten Tag (English: It Happened in Broad Daylight) is a 1958 Spanish-Swiss-German suspense film directed by Ladislao Vajda. In 1997, it was remade under the same title as a German TV film, directed by Nico Hoffmann. There was also a Dutch remake of the film, by Rudolf Van Den Berg, under the title The Cold Light of Day made in 1995. The original screenplay was written by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, a Swiss playwright and novelist, and the first incarnation of the film is still acclaimed by critics. Heinz Rühmann and Gert Fröbe both starred in the 1958 movie.

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The three films follow the same basic plot, where a senior police detective is attached to elucidate the murder of a little girl. As the detective hopes for leads while talking with the mother of the murdered girl, he pledges to find her killer – and so, even after leaving the police force, he embarks upon buying a gasoline shop in the remote area where he hopes to find the criminal, and uses a little girl as bait to attract the killer. His trap is ultimately successful in ensnaring the murderer.

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