Nick Knatterton's Adventure
Appearance
Nick Knatterton’s Adventure | |
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Directed by | Hans Quest |
Written by | Werner P. Zibaso |
Based on | Nick Knatterton by Manfred Schmidt |
Produced by | Erwin Gitt |
Starring | |
Cinematography | Heinz Hölscher |
Edited by | Elisabeth Kleinert-Neumann |
Music by | Willy Mattes |
Production company | Deutsche Film Hansa |
Distributed by | Deutsche Film Hansa |
Release date |
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Running time | 89 minutes |
Country | West Germany |
Language | German |
Nick Knatterton's Adventure (German: Nick Knattertons Abenteuer - Der Raub der Gloria Nylon) is a 1959 West German comedy crime film directed by Hans Quest and starring Karl Lieffen, Susanne Cramer and Maria Sebaldt.[1] It is based on a comic strip portraying the private detective Nick Knatterton.
The film's sets were designed by the art director Walter Haag. Location shooting took place around Kassel in Hesse.
Synopsis
[edit]Gloria Nylon, daughter of a famous fabric manufacturing tycoon, is kidnapped. The press demand that celebrated detective Nick Knatterton be called in on the case.
Cast
[edit]- Karl Lieffen as Nick Knatterton
- Susanne Cramer as Gloria Nylon
- Maria Sebaldt as Virginia Peng
- Gert Fröbe as Hugo
- Günter Pfitzmann as Max
- Hans von Borsody as Eddie
- Stanislav Ledinek as Gustav
- Wolfgang Wahl as Tresor-Otto
- Gert Wiedenhofen as Bobby Schnieke
- Martin Hirthe as Lucius Xaver Nylon
- Herta Konrad as Trudchen Taste
- Werner Fuetterer as Redakteur
- Wolfgang Müller as Graf Rieselkalk
- Wolfgang Neuss as Diener bei Graf Rieselkalk
References
[edit]- ^ Bock & Bergfelder p.135
Bibliography
[edit]- Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.
External links
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Categories:
- 1959 films
- West German films
- 1950s German-language films
- German crime comedy films
- 1959 crime films
- 1950s crime comedy films
- 1959 comedy films
- Films directed by Hans Quest
- Films based on German comics
- Live-action films based on comics
- 1950s German films
- German-language crime comedy films
- 1950s German film stubs