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A hitchhiker, carrying a suitcase full of toys, is given a ride by a wealthy businessman in his 1965 Ford Galaxie 500 Convertible. The two first talk about the businessman’s life and the hitchhiker’s hobby of collecting toys. Then everything gets out of hand.
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Most TV movies are instantly forgettable, very similar to many others. Every now and then though there is a picture people will remember, a picture that grabs the audience’s attention, and rather surprisingly this is one of those pictures.
Surprisingly, because the lead is played by Dieter Hallervorden, a comic actor whose style one might compare to Jerry Lewis or Gianfranco D’Angelo; his films are mostly known for lowbrow slapstick. But this is not a comedy at all (perhaps of a very very dark kind), it is a rather unpleasant thriller, and ‘Didi’ plays a rather unpleasant character. Initially the viewer is tempted into thinking that this is one of his usual nerdish but lovable and harmless weirdos but this just hardens the blow to find that he may a nerdish weirdo, but lovable and harmless he certainly ain’t. As far as hitch-hikers from hell go, he is clearly up there with Rutger Hauer [The Hitcher] and David Hess [Autostop rosso sangue].
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Der.Springteufel.1974.DVD.x264.AC3.2.0-dps.mkv
General
Container: Matroska
Runtime: 53 min 46 s
Size: 1.05 GiB
Video
Codec: x264
Resolution: 692x568 ~> 737x568
Aspect ratio: 1.299
Frame rate: 25.000 fps
Bit rate: 2 560 kb/s
BPP: 0.260
Audio
#1: German 2.0ch AC-3 @ 224 kb/s
https://nitro.download/view/1FF663BE31605EA/Der.Springteufel.1974.DVD.x264.AC3.2.0-dps.mkv
Language(s):German
Subtitles:English, German
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