Hot Picks

- There's No Such Thing as Zombies 2020

- Ready for My Close Up 2019

- White Crow 2025

- Enter the Room 2022

- I Feel Fine 2024

- Round the Decay 2025

- The Baby in the Basket 2025

- Feed 2005

- Altered Reality 2024

- My Husband, the Cyborg 2025

- The Company of Thieves 2025

- Do You See Me? 2017

- Good Neighbours 2024

- Bokshi 2025

- Spectrum 2024

- Wrath of Thorn 2025

- Grace Point 2023

- Up Close 2025

- Sunray: Fallen Soldier 2024

- Hemet, or The Landlady Don't Drink Tea 2024

- Werewolf Game 2025

- A Mr. Shelton Adventure: The Case of the Missing Award 2025

- In the Hands of Fate 2025

- Blackwater Lane 2024

- Hunting Daze 2024

- Lizzie Lazarus 2024

- The Twisted Doll 2024

- Dominoes 2025

- Knight Life 2025

- Watch Us Kill 2024

- Death 2024

- The Yorkie Werewolf 2024

- F.L.Y. 2023

- The Damned 2024

- Kuyashii Gonzo: Blood Visions and Chaos Magic 2024

- The Beast Inside 2024

- Street Trash 2024

- Standing on the Shoulders of Kitties - The Bubbles and the Shitrockers Story 2024

- Dead Before They Wake 2025

- DinoGator 2024

- Trivial 2024

- Thou Shalt Kill 2024

- Romancing Sydney 2024

- Gouge Away 2023

- The North Witch 2024

- Deus Irae 2023

- Scrap 2022

- Romeo's Distress 2016

- Breathing In 2023

- Four. 2024

- Reflexion 2024

- The Reflected Self 2024

- WWII: Operation Phoenix 2024

- Talk of the Dead 2016

- A Killer Conversation 2014

- Cosmos 2021

- First Impressions Can Kill 2017

- Star Crash 1979

- Strangler of the Swamp 1946

Der Kommissar - Die Nacht, in der Basseck starb

episode 60

West Germany 1973
produced by
Helmut Ringelmann for Neue Münchner Fernsehproduktion/ZDF
directed by Wolfgang Staudte
starring Erik Ode, Reinhard Glemnitz, Günther Schramm, Fritz Wepper, Evelyn Opela, Joachim Bissmeier, Rosemarie Kirstein, Jürgen Goslar, Horst Tappert, Manfred Spies, Hannes Kaetner, Les Humphries and the Les Humphries Singers
written by Herbert Reinecker, series created by Helmut Ringelmann, Herbert Reinecker, songs performed by the Les Humphries Singers, title theme by Herbert Jarczyk

TV-series
Der Kommissar, Harry Klein

review by
Mike Haberfelner

Available on DVD!

To buy, click on link(s) below and help keep this site afloat (commissions earned)

Always make sure of DVD-compatibility!!!



Upon arriving home late at night, night club owner Basseck (Jürgen Goslar) is shot by somebody who has obviously had the keys to his apartment - and it's up to inspector Keller (Erik Ode) and his men (Reinhard Glemnitz, Günther Schramm, Fritz Wepper) to find out who that was. Now it wasn't hard to get one's hand on Basseck's apartment keys as his business manager Kareis (Horst Tappert) has kept them in his (permanently unlocked) office - and of course, as our investigating heroes soon find out, they were stolen from there the night of the crime. So Keller and company zero in on the most likely suspect, Dana (Evelyn Opela), Basseck's most recent ex and one of the many girls he has "persuaded" into prostitution. She though claims she has been with a customer that night, Wagner (Joachim Bissmeier), and before long that man can be tracked down. And cross-examined, he breaks down and commits to the murder, his motive being that Basseck had driven his childhood friend into prostitution and ultimately suicide and he wanted to avenge her.

 And he used Dana, in her vulnerable state, and her intimate knowledge of where the keys were, to gain access to Basseck's apartment. A straight forward confession if there ever was one - but for one flaw: The keys have since been returned to Kareis' office and Wagner couldn't have achieved that feat. But of course, Keller has long figured that Dana has been the actual murderer ...

 

Of course, this episode suffers from all the faults the usual episode of Der Kommissar suffers from, from weak and sensationalistic scripts to stilted dialogue, but what makes this one interesting is its directorial inventiveness that beds the whole second half of the story into a musical background, juxtaposing the lengthy confessions of Wagner and then Dana with a performance of the Les Humphries Singers' feel-good music, and it's really the contrast of the tunes and the graveness of the situation that makes the whole thing work so well, and makes this, despite all its shortcomings, actually worth a watch.

 

On a sidenote, not only does this episode (like the earlier episode ... wie die Wölfe) team up Fritz Wepper with Horst Tappert, who would within a year become the leads in the long running, Ringelmann-produced and Reinecker-penned series Derrick, it also features a performance by Les Humphries (with his Singers) who would compose Derrick's title melody.

Quick Links

Abbott & Costello

The Addams Family

Alice in Wonderland

Arsène Lupin

Batman

Bigfoot

Black Emanuelle

Bomba the Jungle Boy

Bowery Boys

Bulldog Drummond

Captain America

Charlie Chan

Cinderella

Deerslayer

Dick Tracy

Dr. Mabuse

Dr. Orloff

Doctor Who

Dracula

Edgar Wallace made in Germany

Elizabeth Bathory

Emmanuelle

Fantomas

Flash Gordon

Frankenstein

Frankie & Annette Beach Party movies

Freddy Krueger

Fu Manchu

Fuzzy

Gamera

Godzilla

Hercules

El Hombre Lobo

Incredible Hulk

Jack the Ripper

James Bond

Jekyll and Hyde

Jerry Cotton

Jungle Jim

Justine

Kekko Kamen

King Kong

Laurel and Hardy

Lemmy Caution

Lobo

Lone Wolf and Cub

Lupin III

Maciste

Marx Brothers

Miss Marple

Mr. Moto

Mister Wong

Mothra

The Munsters

Nick Carter

OSS 117

Phantom of the Opera

Philip Marlowe

Philo Vance

Quatermass

Robin Hood

The Saint

Santa Claus

El Santo

Schoolgirl Report

The Shadow

Sherlock Holmes

Spider-Man

Star Trek

Sukeban Deka

Superman

Tarzan

Three Mesquiteers

Three Musketeers

Three Stooges

Three Supermen

Winnetou

Wizard of Oz

Wolf Man

Wonder Woman

Yojimbo

Zatoichi

Zorro

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

Feeling lucky?
Want to
search
any of my partnershops yourself
for more, better results?
(commissions earned)

The links below
will take you
just there!!!

Find Der Kommissar - Die Nacht, in der Basseck starb
at the amazons ...

USA  amazon.com

Great Britain (a.k.a. the United Kingdom)  amazon.co.uk

Germany (East AND West)  amazon.de

Looking for imports?
Find Der Kommissar - Die Nacht, in der Basseck starb here ...

Thailand  eThaiCD.com
Your shop for all things Thai


Thanks for watching !!!

 

 

In times of uncertainty of a possible zombie outbreak, a woman has to decide between two men - only one of them's one of the undead.

 

There's No Such Thing as Zombies
starring
Luana Ribeira, Rudy Barrow and Rami Hilmi
special appearances by
Debra Lamb and Lynn Lowry

 

directed by
Eddie Bammeke

written by
Michael Haberfelner

produced by
Michael Haberfelner, Luana Ribeira and Eddie Bammeke

 

now streaming at

Amazon

Amazon UK

Vimeo

 

 

 

Robots and rats,
demons and potholes,
cuddly toys and
shopping mall Santas,
love and death and everything in between,
Tales to Chill
Your Bones to

is all of that.

 

Tales to Chill
Your Bones to
-
a collection of short stories and mini-plays
ranging from the horrific to the darkly humourous,
from the post-apocalyptic
to the weirdly romantic,
tales that will give you a chill and maybe a chuckle, all thought up by
the twisted mind of
screenwriter and film reviewer
Michael Haberfelner.

 

Tales to Chill
Your Bones to

the new anthology by
Michael Haberfelner

 

Out now from
Amazon!!!