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It Happened in Broad Daylight (1958) on Netflix

NR19581h 37mCrimeDramaThriller

A peddler finds a little girl's body in the woods. Zürich detective Matthäi, about to take a Middle East post, is asked by the mother to swear he will find the killer.

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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about It Happened in Broad Daylight (1958)

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  • SPOILERFriedrich Dürrenmatt was unhappy that the detective succeeds at the end of the film, so he turned his own script into the novel Das Versprechen (The Pledge), in which the detective fails to catch the killer and ends as a broken, witless old man.

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