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On Call...Murder! (1959)

On Call...Murder! poster
Original title
Bei Anruf... Mord!
Directed by
Rainer Wolffhardt
Genre
crime film
Country
Germany
Runtime
1h 55m
Rating
6.6 of 10 from 4 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A husband hires a man to kill his wife so he can inherit her money. The wife fights back and kills the attacker in self-defense. The husband then schemes to frame her for murder, but a suspicious police inspector works to expose the truth.

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What happens

Bei Anruf Mord ist ein 1959 gedrehter Fernsehfilm mit derselben Handlung wie im Hitchcock-Original von 1954. Tony Wendice will seine Frau loswerden und sie töten lassen. Doch Margot gelingt es, den gedungenen Mörder aus Notwehr zu töten. Nun zielt die Strategie des Ehemannes darauf ab, sie vor Gericht wegen Mordes verurteilen zu lassen, um so an das Erbe zu kommen. Inspektor Hubbard, der bereits einen Verdacht hatte, gelingt es, dies trickreich zu verhindern und ihn dingfest zu machen.http://www.deutsches-filmhaus.de/filme_gesamt/w_gesamt/wolffhardt_rainer.htm (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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