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Word: frobe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Happened in Broad Daylight. Swiss Author Friedrich Duerrenmatt's story about a professional policeman's obsessive pursuit of a killer works up an uncommon amount of suspense, thanks to excellent performances by Gert Frobe and Heinz Rühmann...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Dec. 5, 1960 | 12/5/1960 | See Source »

...Happened in Broad Daylight. A slick but effective suspense film written by Swiss Author Friedrich Duerrenmatt (reversing the usual process, he drew his novel The Pledge from the script) in which a psychopath-brilliantly acted by Gert Frobe-and a police inspector glide through frightening shadows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Nov. 21, 1960 | 11/21/1960 | See Source »

...Happened in Broad Daylight. A slick but effective suspense film written by Swiss Author Friedrich Duerrenmatt (reversing the usual process, he drew his novel The Pledge from the script), in which a psychopath, brilliantly acted by Gert Frobe, and a police inspector glide through frightening shadows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: CINEMA | 11/14/1960 | See Source »

...book the conclusion was richly ambiguous. In the film it is merely slick. So is the camera work; but some of the performances are better than that. Gert Frobe, who scored so impressively as a comic capitalist in Rosemary, creates with amazingly few gestures one of the most frightening psychopaths the screen has exhibited in recent years. And Actor Ruhmann, as the inspector, skillfully suggests that somewhere behind his wooden expression there are termites at work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Police Blotter | 11/7/1960 | See Source »

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