Phonearl Good start, but then it gets ruined

Gurlyndrobb While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Kinley This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Isbel A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Horst in Translation ([email protected]) "Es geschah am hellichten Tag" or "It Happened in Broad Daylight" is a German 95-minute black-and-white film from the late 1950s, so this one will have its 60th anniversary soon. It was directed by Ladislao Aajda, who also adapted Friedrich Dürrenmatt's novel (with Dürrenmatt himself) for the screen. Today, this one is seen as one of Germany's finest films, especially in terms of crime drama. Heinz Rühmann is almost in every scene from start to finish and he was nominated for a German Film Award for his portrayal here. Same goes for Gert Froebe, who has considerably less screen-time though and does pretty much not appear at all in the first half of the film. This one is really all about the main character's (a police detective's) relationship with his employer and also about a man who was arrested despite being innocent.For Froebe, his villain role here, may have been one of the main reasons who he got cast in his career-defining role as Auric Goldfinger, so even if he lost the German Film Award (just like Rühmann), it was a very important film for him. Rühmann, in his mid 50s here, was mostly known in German for the comedy films he made earlier in his career that made him a big star, but here he shows us that he also definitely has the talent for darker, more gritty films. It was quite fun to watch him with the serious material in here. Overall, this was a quite good watch in terms of story, performances and atmosphere. I think you may want to check this one out. Thumbs up for "Es geschah am hellichten Tag" and I see the film was popular enough that they made a sequel several decades later shortly after Rühmann's death, with Joachim Król playing the main character, but I have not seen that one. And there are more sequels from outside Germany. But this one here is the original. Go see it.

JLRMovieReviews An old man is rushing through the woods and stumbles over a dead girl's body. He rushes to the village to call the police. But what he didn't expect happens - he gets the blame for it, not only by police who interrogate mercilessly, but by his fellow villagers. He says he's innocent. But no one believes him, except the chief inspector, who's set to retire in a day or so. But this case consumes him, when it takes a dramatic turn. He takes it upon himself to find out more. So he befriends a lady and her little girl. But they do not know what he's up to. The lady helps him manage a small shop/gas station in the determined vicinity of the attacks. What will he find? What will find him? This is an excellent film, with astounding use of black and white in telling and showing the story. This was remade in 2001 by director Sean Penn with Jack Nicholson in the lead role and with a totally different ending and a more downbeat feel to it. I had already seen it and liked it, before I saw this; but now, I prefer this version. The subject matter may be a bit unsettling to parents, but the treatment is first rate and with very believable dubbed American words. If you miss this relatively unknown foreign film, you've missed one of the best of its kind.

hasosch "It happened on broad daylight" (1958) was the first Swiss series-killer movie. In the Canton of Zurich, little blond girls are killed. The villagers suspect the peddler Jacquier (Michel Simon) who is arrested by the police and hangs himself up in his cell. Chief-commissioner Matthaei (Heinz Rühmann) is convinced that the peddler was innocent. In the drawings of Gritli, the last killed little girl, he finds little hedgehogs, a puppet, a black car and a strange animal with horns. He recognizes that all murder cases happened along the street that leads to the Canton of Grisons. From an Italian, he rents a gas station along this street and engages as his housekeeper a women whose little daughter Annemarie strongly resembles the murdered Gritli. One evening, Annemarie is late back home and tells that she met a huge "sorcerer" who gave her chocolates that resemble hedgehogs. On his car there is a number tag with the ibex, the heraldic figure of the Grisons. The film shows parallel the rich Mr. Schrott alias the "sorcerer" (Gert Fröbe) suppressed by his wife (Berta Drews). Matthaei asks Annemarie when she will meet the "sorcerer" again and goes instead of her in the forest. At the meeting-place he lays down a blond-haired puppet. While Matthaei hides himself, the "sorcerer" appears and thinks that Annemarie was killed. He cries out in his insanity and sees Matthaei, assuming that he is the murderer and tries to kill him. But Matthaei's police men are already ready to protect their boss and arrest the "sorcerer".

amikus2000 Once I met an arabian, and while talking about cinema, he said, for knowing this movie he would forget five of his lovely movies, after watching it ! G. Fröbe and H. Rühmann are playing such fabulous, that you think somebody inconvenient is entering your near forest. Everybody I know is worn down after this Horror-criminal, where NO violence or anything bizarre is shown! Turn off the lights.One of the best movies of the 1950ies.