It Happened in Broad Daylight

Es geschah am hellichten Tag English It Happened in Broad Daylight is a 1958 SpanishSwissGerman suspense film directed by Ladislao Vajda. In 1997, it was remade under the same title as a German TV film, directed by Nico Hoffmann. There was also a Dutch remake of the film, by Rudolf Van Den Berg, under the title The Cold Light of Day made in 1995. The original screenplay was written by Friedrich Drrenmatt, a Swiss playwright and novelist, and the first incarnation of the film is still acclaimed by critics. Heinz Rhmann and Gert Frbe both starred in the 1958 movie.

Friedrich Drrenmatt had not been happy to see the detective proven successful at the end the story, so he wrote the novel Das Versprechen Requiem auf den Kriminalroman The Pledge Requiem for the Detective Novel from the previous film script. Das Versprechen differs from Es geschah am hellichten Tag by having the detective fail to identify the killer in the end because of the murderers death in an auto accident. This failure ultimately leaves the detective a broken and witless old man.American director Sean Penn made a fourth movie on the topic, named The Pledge in 2001. Penns movie incorporates Das Versprechens darker ending, as preferred by Drrenmatt. ........

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