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Tim Frazer (1963)

Tim Frazer poster
Directed by
Hans Quest
Genre
crime film
Country
Germany
Rated
12
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A structural engineer gets entangled in espionage and dangerous situations. He faces a series of adventures as he tries to navigate the criminal underworld.

tensesuspensefulmysteriousintriguingneutral-tonedbrisk-pacedlow-key

What happens

Tim Frazer was a West German thriller television series that was broadcast by ARD between January 1963 and January 1964. Consisting of two series of six episodes each, it was inspired by the British television serial The World Of Tim Frazer by Francis Durbridge. Max Eckard played the title character, a structural engineer who gets mixed up in espionage and other adventures. The second series was known as Tim Frazer – Der Fall Salinger. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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