It Happened in Broad Daylight
1958 · Movie · 100 min · ★ 7.4
After a child is killed, an investigator becomes determined to keep a promise to the grieving family. As the case drags on, the search turns into a consuming pursuit that tests reason, morality, and the limits of justice.
Based on The Pledge: Requiem for the Detective Novel
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Details
- Original title
- Es geschah am hellichten Tag
- Years
- 1958
- Release date
- 1958-06-09
- Language
- German
- Runtime
- 100 min
- TMDB rating
- 7.4/10 (148 votes)
About
If you like dark, psychologically driven crime stories such as M or The Devil Strikes at Night, this offers tense atmosphere and moral unease; Not for you if child-endangerment themes or deliberate pacing put you off.
Pros: gripping atmosphere; strong suspense; absorbing character study | Cons: bleak subject matter; unsettling scenes; slow-burn pacing
Themes
- zurich
- detective inspector
- child murder
- suspicion of murder
- cult
- murder
- psychiatrist
Cast & crew
Heinz Rühmann
as Oberleutnant Matthäi
Sigfrit Steiner
as Det. Feller
Siegfried Lowitz
as Lt. Heinzi
Michel Simon
as Jacquier
Heinrich Gretler
as Polizeikommandant
Gert Fröbe
as Schrott
Berta Drews
as Frau Schrott
Ewald Balser
as Prof. Manz
María Rosa Salgado
as Frau Heller
- AO
Anita von Ow
as Annemarie Heller
Directed by Ladislao Vajda