Strip club scene


On the whole this a pretty good Edgar Wallace thriller. When I first saw it on its first release over here in the UK in 1965 I didn't realise it was a British/German co-production. But I knew it was nothing to do with the long-running Merton Park studios Edgar Wallace adaptations. They were always quite tame and very British. This film however was somewhat rougher and more violent than those.
As a testosterone fuelled teenager one scene certainly stood out for me. This was a scene where finger nail-biting bad guy Klaus Kinski shoots another villain in the back room of a Soho strip club. He shoots the man three of four times - as he does so the film frenetically cuts back and forth between the violence backstage and the gorgeous stripper going through her final (very lively) gyrations on stage. Pretty blatant sex and violence really but enjoyable for all that.
Certainly the British censors were very lenient here and didn't cut any of it - even more surprising as the film was passed as PG. Whioh was certainly more than what we get in the German version where the scene has been badly mauled by the censors. Unfortunately the german version is really the only one available and there are no subtitles. So if anyone is tempted to buy this I would advise them to try and get the British version - it must be available somewhere.

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… there is a german Blu-ray-version available meanwhile. Good picture quality and the strip club scene seems to have been restored completely

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