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Das Halstuch

West Germany 1962
produced by
WDR/ARD
directed by Hans Quest
starring Heinz Drache, Albert Lieven, Margot Trooger, Dieter Borsche, Horst Tappert, Hellmut Lange, Erwin Linder, Erica Beer, Eva Pflug, Christian Doermer, Helga Zeckra, Gardy Granass, Wolf Schlamminger, Eckart Dux, Alwin Joachim Mayer, Alf Marholm, Gerhard Becker, Annelie Jansen, Heinz von Cleve, Hans Bosenius, Bernd M. Bausch
screenplay by Marianne de Barde, based on the novel The Scarf by Francis Durbridge, music by Hans Jönsson

TV-Miniseries
German Francis Durbridge-adaptations

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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Fay Collins, who was just about to return to her hometown from London for her birthday, is found dead, and soon enough, an acquaintance of hers, Marion Hastings (Margot Trooger), pops up and claims she has seen him with a man who turns out to be big-time publisher Clifton Morris (Albert Lieven), and the scarf Fay has been strangled with appears to be his. Inspector Yates (Heinz Drache) soon starts questioning Morris, and it seems every little detail is pointing to him - which makes him almost too perfect a suspect.

Morris even seems to play his role as culprit well, as he tries to pay a woman, Dinah Winston (Eva Pflug), to serve as his witness while letting himself be blackmailed by a nightclub performer (Erica Beer) - and when Dinah Winston is found dead in his appartment, it seems his fate is sealed ... apart from the fact that Yates had a man follow him and as a result, unbeknowest to Morris, he actually had an alibi for the second murder - Yates won't let Morris know this yet though, because he figures Morris is still the key to the whole case.

Then Morris gets into a fight with Fay's brother (Hellmut Lange), who accuses him of being the killer and claims he even has some evidence to prove it, and ultimately, Morris knocks his opponent out. Yates later tells him that Fay's brother was actually killed in their fight - which is a blunt lie -, upon which Morris calls his firend the priest (Horst Tappert) and confesses to him that he has been set up by a blackmailing ring which Fay has worked for, and it seems the head of the ring, whoever that was, has killed Fay to get a fortune out of Morris. With this information, the priest goes to the police, and Yates decides to use Morris as bait to get a lead on the actual murderer.

Morris is soon contacted by Marion Hastings, who's obviously part of the ring, and she finally leads everyone to artist Hopedean (Dieter Borsche), a marginal character so far who now tries to kill Marion and this way reveals himself as being the killer of the whole story.

 

TV-series in six parts that seems terribly old-fashioned today - stagey direction, German actors desperately trying to come across as British, an overly convoluted, terribly constructed plot - but was an amazing success in West Germany when it first aired. Seen from today's point of view, the six-parter seems somewhat loveable because of its shortcomings (rather than despite them) in a nostalgic sort of way, but as a whodunnit as such, it's actually a bit of a disappointment.

 

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