Nick Knatterton's Adventure

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Nick Knatterton’s Adventure
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Directed by Hans Quest
Written by Werner P. Zibaso
Based on Nick Knatterton by Manfred Schmidt  [ de ]
Produced by Erwin Gitt
Starring
Cinematography Heinz Hölscher
Edited by Elisabeth Kleinert-Neumann
Music by Willy Mattes
Production
company
Deutsche Film Hansa
Distributed byDeutsche Film Hansa
Release date
  • 15 January 1959 (1959-01-15)
Running time
89 minutes
CountryWest Germany
Language German

Nick Knatterton's Adventure (German: Nick Knattertons Abenteuer - Der Raub der Gloria Nylon) is a 1959 West German comedy crime film directed by Hans Quest and starring Karl Lieffen, Susanne Cramer and Maria Sebaldt. [1] It is based on a comic strip portraying the private detective Nick Knatterton.

Contents

The film's sets were designed by the art director Walter Haag. Location shooting took place around Kassel in Hesse.

Synopsis

When Gloria Nylon, the daughter of a famous fabric manufacturing tycoon, is kidnapped the press demand that the celebrated detective Nick Knatterton is called in for the case.

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References

  1. Bock & Bergfelder p.135

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