Die Todesfalle

Originaltitel: Deadfall

1968
16
2 Std.

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

5,7/10

1366

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Cat burglar Henry Clarke and his accomplices, the Moreaus, attempt to steal diamonds from the château of millionaire Salinas. However, Henry's partners in crime aren't the most emotionally stable people.

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Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuCat burglar Henry Clarke and his accomplices Richard and Fe Moreau attempt to steal diamonds from the chateau of millionaire Salinas. However, Henry's partners in crime aren't the most emoti... Alles lesenCat burglar Henry Clarke and his accomplices Richard and Fe Moreau attempt to steal diamonds from the chateau of millionaire Salinas. However, Henry's partners in crime aren't the most emotionally stable people.Cat burglar Henry Clarke and his accomplices Richard and Fe Moreau attempt to steal diamonds from the chateau of millionaire Salinas. However, Henry's partners in crime aren't the most emotionally stable people.

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IMDb-BEWERTUNG

5,7/10

1366

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

Police Captain
(as Emilio Rodriguez)

David Buck

Salinas

Carmen Dene

Masseuse

Geraldine Sherman

Receptionist

Leonard Rossiter

Fillmore

Reg Howell

Spanish Chauffeur

John Barry

Orchestra Conductor

Renata Tarragó

Solo Guitarist
(as Renata Tarrago)

Carlos Pierre

Antonio

Santiago Rivero

Armed Guard

Paul Beradi

Concert Audience
(Nicht genannt)

George Ghent

Stresemann
(Nicht genannt)

Robert Graves

Extra
(Nicht genannt)

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6DD-931

GREAT SOUNDTRACK, SO-SO FILM

It's a shame this movie was such a failure, because subsequently one of the greatest 60's film scores I've ever heard has been buried along with it. John Barry has never done finer work, and even appears on-camera to conduct one of the brilliant pieces he composed. If you ever get a chance to see this film on TV, and you get bored by it, just leave the sound on. You'll get quite a treat.

6Doylenf

Michael Caine stars in tepid cat burglar thriller...

DEADFALL is a lushly photographed suspense story with a cat burglar theme, wallowing in a full bodied John Barry score--especially during the major heist involving MICHAEL CAINE's high climbing bit where he's breaking into a playboy's mansion. Clever editing permits cross-cutting between a concert hall suite and the burglary in progress. GIOVANNA RALLI is the pretty Italian woman married to the mastermind of the burglary--ERIC PORTMAN--an aged homosexual.

After the main burglary, the story sags from mid-point onward with talky scenes between Caine and Ralli where she talks about her failed marriage and revelations of a sordid kind. All of this leads toward a downbeat ending with explanations made that are supposed to be shocking but don't have the desired impact because by then the pace of the film has become too lethargic.

ERIC PORTMAN gets the best lines but the dialog is hardly up to the caliber of Tennessee Williams and that's what is needed here, considering the sort of material the story deals with.

Summing up: Handsomely photographed on locations in England and Spain, it's a so-so crime caper after a solidly suspenseful burglary. The John Williams score is its biggest asset.

Prof-Hieronymos-Grost

decent thriller

Henry Stuart Clarke (Michael Caine) is a cat burglar who has his work down to a fine art. While under cover in a retreat for recovering alcoholics, he is approached by an alluring woman Fé Moreau who has a proposition for him, he's suspicious but agrees to meet her aging husband, Richard,(Eric Portman)himself a professional burglar who is now struggling to pull off the big jobs due to his age. Together they agree to pull off a seemingly impossible heist. Derided on its initial release, Forbes' film is nonetheless an interesting if slow film, especially if you like films of its ilk, its also beautifully filmed and makes wonderful use of the stunning Spanish setting, it also has a memorable score by the great John

bobbybey

A neglected, wonderful film, apparently a thriller, but filled with interesting and troubling subplots.

I first came across this film in Ankara, Turkey in the 1970's and have been looking for it since. It's a "heist" film on the surface, a cat burglar after jewels. But it's far more than this, with troubling, dark sexual overtones. It features the actual "deadfall" against the background of Aranjuez' guitar concerto, and the suspense is terrific, especially the acting, with Caine at his underplaying best, and Eric Portman stealing the show with a subtle, great performance. Why this film is not a cult classic I don't know, unless its dark side is too much for viewers. It's really unforgetable, as proven by its 25 year hold on my imagination.

5richardchatten

"I don't think any of this is very nice"

After spending most of the sixties specialising in low-keyed black & white slices of life this marked Bryan Forbes' chance to provide a slice of cake. The package of Michael Caine (sans glasses) playing a dashing jewel thief against a backdrop of glamorous Spanish locations with a score by John Barry obviously made it easy to get backing. Just so you get the message it also has a credit sequence complete with a song by Shirley Bassey.

Although the heist itself delivers the goods, the principals spend far too much time languidly talking (and talking) about their emotions. Vladek Sheybal (also a Bond veteran) offers an unsettling cameo as a psychiatrist (who manages to give hitherto unsuspected menace to the single word "ma-ssage"); while in addition to the inevitable Nanette Newman - at one point briefly seen snogging David Buck to Barry's theme from 'Beat Girl' - Giovanni Ralli and Eric Portman (in his last film) are memorably poisonous as Caine's partners in crime.

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This film was one of a whole series of expensive box-office failures released by Twentieth Century Fox in the late 1960s, eventually leading to a major financial crisis in the company. Some time after its release, Michael Caine told interviewers that he and Bryan Forbes had both agreed to make the film because each of them owed Fox a movie under old agreements. It is highly likely that Forbes was anxious to have a box-office hit following his previous film, "The Whisperers", a very personal low-budget project which had, as he had anticipated, failed to find audiences, but which had also (as he had not anticipated) failed to win laudatory reviews, in the main. The two films Forbes had directed immediately before that - "King Rat" (1965) and "The Wrong Box" (1966) had also been flops, and rather expensive ones. A glossy heist thriller with a popular leading man must have seemed a good way for him to restore his fortunes, but it performed very badly, financially, and was, for the most part, poorly reviewed. After its failure, Forbes made an even more costly movie, "The Madwoman Of Chaillot", which was generally deemed a fiasco, both financially and artistically. Forbes continued to direct intermittently for another twenty years, but his career never recovered.

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At 56:13, during the applause at the end of the concert, John Barry accidentally but very visibly steps on the long flowing gown of the featured guitarist lady.