Film-makers, producers, directors etc don't realise how they capture a time in people's lives when making films like this. I spent a lot of my childhood in Berlin around the time this film was made and I can't tell you how many memories it brought back as I looked at the local businesses, residential properties, traffic and eateries. Echt wunderbar, vielen Dank!
@@doublewhopper67 In fact it's a central factor in THIS story, which is clearly a remake of Orson Welles 1949 film, "The Third Man". (To be honest, I didn't think of that until I'd finished watching it and noticed that TH-cam offered a link to the earlier film in the right column. Then the light bulb came on above my head.) That the Berlin is 1970 rather than immediately post-war is central to the necessity to reimagine it. OT: How are we supposed to believe the McGavin character was given the tape by the cops?
Best show Darren was in was “The Outsider”, where he was shabby private detective who kept his phone in his fridge and had an apartment next to a freeway. Too bad it only lasted one season.
Real nice movie of this time 1970 in the succession of the Bond movies....time of real good soundtracks....Darren MacGavin Reinhard Kolldehoff Fritz Weaver : distinctive actors.....
i knew I recognized that German guy with the glasses and curly hair early in the pic. He was the Gestapo Major in Where Eagles Dare, got shot by Eastwood during Richard Burton's speech in the great hall. Derren Nesbitt
Most likely a TV Movie of the Week. This was a thing then. Many were quite forgettable. I recently ran across on by a pre -'Duel' Steven Spielberg. Quite interesting and not half bad considering its extremely small budget. A YTer going my Mr. Sci Fi posted it a few months back and since has been scrubbed completely. The title of it was something like 'LA 2017' or something. The copy he posted is best described as low quality VHS, EP mode. Pilots generally ran at most about 45 minutes. This at double that says TV movie.
You are spot on! The first movie was fantastic. No.2 was so so. And the series mixed its form. The Ripper, the Vampire and The Werewolf were my top 3 favourite episodes, with The Zombie coming in as a strong runner-up. But I loved every second Carl Kolchak and Tony Vincenzo were on the screen. Cheers
@@BrianRPaterson Movie # 2, was superior with the bevy of horror guest stars ! However , it LACKED a villain (Oscar Goldman - Is that you?) and a leading lady (My goodness , Carol Lynley was a sexy GODDESS. And the chemistry w/ Carl was yummy) As for the series : Talk about CHEAP. I always felt like I was on a Universal Backlot Tour . Um, The Werewolf make-up looked like failed make-up tests from Quentin on Dark Shadows! LOL. Strangely , I did like the episode featuring the headless gang Biker. Yes: Zombie , Ripper , Spanish Moss monster , lady Vampire - all top shelf.
I did like the FINAL episode that was broadcasted: The Sentry (man in lizard suit) . I loved the setting of the underground complex and Kolchak escaping in s golf cart ! The series gained a new and younger audience of fans when the CBS Late Movie showed it in 1979 (Fridays; Late Night) . Fall 1974 was the most IMPORTANT line up ever as a KID: Planet of the Apes (the series) and Kolchak (the series). Wow did POTA suck !
@@dikbozoIt was an episode of THE NAME OF THE GAME, and the episode was titled L.A. AD 2017. Directed by Steven Spielberg, and written by bestselling novelist Philip Wylie, author of “When Worlds Collide” (co-written by Edwin Balmer).
I found this movie to be captivating (I watched it mostly all the way thru at one setting rather than as I do with most movies - in bits here and there), intelligent and enjoyable - up until the ending. I did not like the way it ended however.
The first 20 minutes or so aren't exactly thrilling, but see @13:44ff and compare these authentic shots of 1970 Berlin to these here of 1948 Berlin (from Billy Wilder's A FOREIGN AFFAIR, th-cam.com/video/iI8xAxCd1Ic/w-d-xo.html; with Berlin's Marlene, plus Jean Arthur). One can hardly believe that both times it really is Berlin (West, that is - including the rotating MERCEDES star). Later, one of the characters will casually be saying "I'm in SPANDAU", birthplace of well-known band SPANDAU BALLET 😉
As a young Irish kid I worked construction in Berlin and fell in love with that beautiful city a love I feel to this day. The man I worked for was an SS man who served ten years in Russia, he changed uniform and served his time under a false name. He wrote to the widow of the dead man, he thought she believed him to be her husband but she knew. He had his arm amputated from wounds and explained that’s why his writing was different. But she knew her husband was dead from a dream and went along with the game. When he got back to east Germany she met him at train station and married him. Isn’t life crazy I didn’t believe it at first but it’s true. They moved to the West and he became a millionaire construction boss. The company is trading to this very day and he was a kind decent person.
Berlin Affair (TV Movie 1970) Spy suspense drama set in 1960's Berlin. Intrigue and double-cross lead Killian on a twisting path through love and loss. - imdb 6.8
@@robertglenn736 My goodness. You are absolutely right. That's Bud's and Sandy's dad! In my defence, I've just checked some photos of Randy Mantooth, and he looks quite a lot like Brian Kelly. Although, I think Kelly has a dash more gravitas. In hindsight, I should have known better. In fact, when I rewatched this movie the other day, I wondered if they'd re-dubbed all the Strand character's dialogue. Turns out I was thinking about an entirely different actor. 🤒 Cheers
Very good job fellows throughout the 2nd patriotic longest felicitous family entertaining experience week of said surfside Summer July!! Bravissimo 785.95% y'all. Looks like is going to be a great film!😃
The Cold War and Iron Curtain was aot of fun for the players. Everything was crystal clear. But today thexfascist forces are strong in the USA and Europe. The dangers are from Russia, China, Afghanistan, Iran, Afrca, all very confusing.
This movie was made two years before the microchip was invented and two to four years before modern music came about thanks to Deodato and Herbie Hancock.
@@sabine4759they're leaving and coming all the time across the border. When they come here illegally into our country they should learn English because literally we are an English country lol
@@Goodtimes427 I know the border "problem" in USA! But thats a different subject! Fact is that many Americans not even try learning a foreign language! I 'was living near the American Headquarters in Southern Germany and not one American soldier showed some interest in other languages, even though they had German or French ancestors! They expected us speaking English, damn imperialists!
@@sabine4759 it's a requirement in public schools to take 2 years of a foreign language. We have a choice between French or Spanish. I live in Texas so I chose Spanish but I'm no where near speaking fluently though. I know some bad words lol and I can understand very little only if they speak slowly.
In passing, here comes a short history lesson @26:22 re the "bloody Wall": "gets higher all the time" (correct, and it became more inhumane and deadlier all the time), "must cost them a bloody fortune" (true, the materials for the 1,400 km border fortifications were lacking everywhere else in their communist Fourth Reich), "they got guards guarding the workers and guards guarding the guards" (absolutely perverse, yet also true). In the end, more than 1,000 people had been murdered who simply wished to live in West Germany. Die-hard communists keep disputing all these historic facts to this very day. The most despicable and cynical ones among them were and are those who were lucky enough to live in West Berlin or West Germany, anyway. Incorrigible friends of Moscow then and now.
Nowadays it 's better being friends with Moscow than bloody USA! Julian Assange is in prison because he recorded and filmed american war-crimes and atrocities! By the way the Americans were happy about the wall, so they can always blackmail Germany with their sick demands! You don 't have any clue about politics and politicians, haven 't you?
All true... but not the entire truth about the DDR which - unlike the West - did not swiftly rehabilitate 'former' Nazis. To call the Soviet states the Fourth Reich is to minimise the vast suffering inflicted by Nazism on those countries. We live in an era in which open fascism is resurgent in Europe and the USA, so this is not a purely historical question.
Just jump thru this implausible, dated tv mess. Trying to cash in on the Bond era, but the production values are so amateur with the wretched, unwatchable dialogue. This disaster makes no sense.
Not watched, after this user review on IMDb: All Berlin is in the film, but only the polished modern side, nothing of the Berliners, nothing of the wall, nothing of East Berlin, just modern sterility all the way. Richard Burton might have been able to do something of this character, but McGavin does not, but only plays out his brute force. Unfortunately this is a film you will regret having wasted your time on, while you might have been able to watch a much better film - this is miles away from "The Spy that Came in from the Cold", a great story with great characters, while here neither the story nor the characters are great.
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Film-makers, producers, directors etc don't realise how they capture a time in people's lives when making films like this. I spent a lot of my childhood in Berlin around the time this film was made and I can't tell you how many memories it brought back as I looked at the local businesses, residential properties, traffic and eateries. Echt wunderbar, vielen Dank!
@@doublewhopper67 In fact it's a central factor in THIS story, which is clearly a remake of Orson Welles 1949 film, "The Third Man". (To be honest, I didn't think of that until I'd finished watching it and noticed that TH-cam offered a link to the earlier film in the right column. Then the light bulb came on above my head.) That the Berlin is 1970 rather than immediately post-war is central to the necessity to reimagine it.
OT: How are we supposed to believe the McGavin character was given the tape by the cops?
I love the old forties and fifties films around England, so many memories 😎
Berling was great then, but of course only Ost Berlin -- Haupstadt der DDR.
They don't? Oh I think they do. After all, they probably went to college.
you would'nt recognize it today!
Finally I see Pascale Petit again. I had a crush on her in my youth. She looks really fabulous!
These are my type of movies, love the cars of the era. Man they injected you and have the decency to put your jacket on again🤣🤣
Great to see normal people in the background. No obese and no-one with their faces in their phones.
Thin is in, but fat is where it's at.
Damn I ain’t even realize that…Where are all the fat people 🤯
Best show Darren was in was “The Outsider”, where he was shabby private detective who kept his phone in his fridge and had an apartment next to a freeway. Too bad it only lasted one season.
And he drove a 61 Plymouth!
Real nice movie of this time 1970 in the succession of the Bond movies....time of real good soundtracks....Darren MacGavin Reinhard Kolldehoff Fritz Weaver : distinctive actors.....
Wonderful "Spy Movie!"
Darren McGavin reminds me so much of actor Patrick McGoohan!
Mcgavin's suits were divine. Handsome man.
Back when A&E was a much different entity. Before "reality" ruined cable.
When A&E stood for Arts & Entertainment 🎭
i knew I recognized that German guy with the glasses and curly hair early in the pic. He was the Gestapo Major in Where Eagles Dare, got shot by Eastwood during Richard Burton's speech in the great hall. Derren Nesbitt
You are Bang on man. Got a good eye, I can assure you that.
A nice movie from the 70's, I enjoyed it many times. Love and marriage is not for everyone even in real life.
Looks like is going to be a great film!😃
We already knew Kolchak led an incredibly interesting life, but who knew about this ???!!!???? Dang it Kolchak !!!!!
Great 3 AM viewing in Texas!
He was also on Riverboat .
That was a tough one great cast plot story and a sad ending thank you for a great movie ❤❤❤❤❤❤
I stayed in the Hotel Schweizer Hof in the 1980 ties 85or 86. ALLES GUTE, and thanks for the film.
LUV THESE OLD SPY 🕵️♂️ MOVIES 🍿 🎥 ❣️
To think that all the pretty young things in the movie are now grandmas in their Seventies drawing social security.
Tal vez estén muertas!!
Nobody could play the Swinging Sixties type better than Kathie Browne, Darren's wife.
Looking forward to watching.
Thank you so much Chris!
Brilliant film, thanks for this.
Really good for a TV movie.
amazing uploads your posting xoxo Melissa K. thx.
Actor Derren Nesbitt (18.23, with specs) is still with us.
Ah, Major Von Hapen from Where Eagles Dare!
18:22 need colon, double dots !
This REEKS of a TV Pilot. Thankfully McGavin was given the role of his life in the 1972 Night Stalker movie ! Too bad the series did not gel well.
Most likely a TV Movie of the Week. This was a thing then. Many were quite forgettable. I recently ran across on by a pre -'Duel' Steven Spielberg. Quite interesting and not half bad considering its extremely small budget. A YTer going my Mr. Sci Fi posted it a few months back and since has been scrubbed completely. The title of it was something like 'LA 2017' or something. The copy he posted is best described as low quality VHS, EP mode.
Pilots generally ran at most about 45 minutes. This at double that says TV movie.
You are spot on! The first movie was fantastic. No.2 was so so. And the series mixed its form.
The Ripper, the Vampire and The Werewolf were my top 3 favourite episodes, with The Zombie coming in as a strong runner-up.
But I loved every second Carl Kolchak and Tony Vincenzo were on the screen.
Cheers
@@BrianRPaterson Movie # 2, was superior with the bevy of horror guest stars ! However , it LACKED a villain (Oscar Goldman - Is that you?) and a leading lady (My goodness , Carol Lynley was a sexy GODDESS. And the chemistry w/ Carl was yummy) As for the series : Talk about CHEAP. I always felt like I was on a Universal Backlot Tour . Um, The Werewolf make-up looked like failed make-up tests from Quentin on Dark Shadows! LOL. Strangely , I did like the episode featuring the headless gang Biker. Yes: Zombie , Ripper , Spanish Moss monster , lady Vampire - all top shelf.
I did like the FINAL episode that was broadcasted: The Sentry (man in lizard suit) . I loved the setting of the underground complex and Kolchak escaping in s golf cart ! The series gained a new and younger audience of fans when the CBS Late Movie showed it in 1979 (Fridays; Late Night) . Fall 1974 was the most IMPORTANT line up ever as a KID: Planet of the Apes (the series) and Kolchak (the series). Wow did POTA suck !
@@dikbozoIt was an episode of THE NAME OF THE GAME, and the episode was titled L.A. AD 2017. Directed by Steven Spielberg, and written by bestselling novelist Philip Wylie, author of “When Worlds Collide” (co-written by Edwin Balmer).
Chris, one more request : do you have Dead Man on the Run (1975) starring Peter Graves?
‘SIT DOWN, Colonel’. Anyone remember that all time great that Derren Nesbitt was in?
Wasn't that line in Where Eagles Dare?
@@stevesloan7132 You’re bang on the money there! Brilliant film.
Love the 70s tech and general vibe. "Galt" ,isn't that the guy from "Atlas Shrugged"?
John Galt, yes.
I found this movie to be captivating (I watched it mostly all the way thru at one setting rather than as I do with most movies - in bits here and there), intelligent and enjoyable - up until the ending. I did not like the way it ended however.
The first 20 minutes or so aren't exactly thrilling, but see @13:44ff and compare these authentic shots of 1970 Berlin to these here of 1948 Berlin (from Billy Wilder's A FOREIGN AFFAIR, th-cam.com/video/iI8xAxCd1Ic/w-d-xo.html; with Berlin's Marlene, plus Jean Arthur). One can hardly believe that both times it really is Berlin (West, that is - including the rotating MERCEDES star).
Later, one of the characters will casually be saying "I'm in SPANDAU", birthplace of well-known band SPANDAU BALLET 😉
As a young Irish kid I worked construction in Berlin and fell in love with that beautiful city a love I feel to this day. The man I worked for was an SS man who served ten years in Russia, he changed uniform and served his time under a false name. He wrote to the widow of the dead man, he thought she believed him to be her husband but she knew. He had his arm amputated from wounds and explained that’s why his writing was different. But she knew her husband was dead from a dream and went along with the game. When he got back to east Germany she met him at train station and married him. Isn’t life crazy I didn’t believe it at first but it’s true. They moved to the West and he became a millionaire construction boss. The company is trading to this very day and he was a kind decent person.
@@patkearney9320
Wow, Thank You for this incredible story 😮
👋🏻 from Vienna 🎡
Originally broadcast on November 2, 1970.
Reminds me of Covert Action with David Janssen.
Die schöne Fraulein has getotet.
HE WAS TRYING TO GET OUT, BUT HE DIDN'T MAKE IT... NOT WITHOUT THE GIRL. GOOD MOVIE
Edgar winner for television episode.
There is one actor more in this amazing movie : BERLIN ❤
Germany has changed A LOT in the last few years.....!!
@@2msvalkyrie529 oh yes, indeed
Trivia:
Derren Nesbitt: b 19 June 1935:
He has 5 children:
He has 2 children 5cells and one nursett.
How did they have this tecnology in the film in 1970......but a good film compared with the crap we have in the 2000s
26:00...walking right into a trap McGavin...
Ah Pete, your day is going from bad to worse : drugged, conked over the head, and tossed into a reservoir. Night night hero...
Kathie Browne McGavin's wife.
Berlin Affair (TV Movie 1970)
Spy suspense drama set in 1960's Berlin. Intrigue and double-cross lead Killian on a twisting path through love and loss. - imdb 6.8
Jeez, what is Kolshak doing in Geneve Schweiz?
Who was this actor who played Paul Strand? He looks so familiar.
Randolph Mantooth. He was one of the leads in "Emergency" which ran from 72 to 79.
Cheers
@@BrianRPaterson Yes!!!!!! Thank you!
Brian Kelly (from Flipper TV series). It is listed in the credits at the end. It was not Randolph Mantooth.
@@robertglenn736 My goodness. You are absolutely right. That's Bud's and Sandy's dad!
In my defence, I've just checked some photos of Randy Mantooth, and he looks quite a lot like Brian Kelly. Although, I think Kelly has a dash more gravitas.
In hindsight, I should have known better. In fact, when I rewatched this movie the other day, I wondered if they'd re-dubbed all the Strand character's dialogue. Turns out I was thinking about an entirely different actor. 🤒
Cheers
@@robertglenn736 BTW: He was also in "Around the World Under the Sea," which is well worth a watch if you like 60s scifi flicks.
doyle's pick-up lines are so funny and original, that's worth at least one date.
20:35 Brian Kelly = Porter Ricks
40:31 she calls him mr long...
Very good job fellows throughout the 2nd patriotic longest felicitous family entertaining experience week of said surfside Summer July!! Bravissimo 785.95% y'all. Looks like is going to be a great film!😃
How beautiful was Pascale Petit?
Yes very
GOOD MOVIE GOOD EVERYTHING.
Movie is about a man following a woman for two hours.
Chechez le femme.
I didn't know George Soros was in this movie!
Darrin McGavin suit, could it be any worse fitting?
I actually think he wears his suits well.
🤣
I used to have a suit like that in the 70s. Then they called it a western cut.
Kathie Brown was a knockout.
The Cold War and Iron Curtain was aot of fun for the players. Everything was crystal clear. But today thexfascist forces are strong in the USA and Europe. The dangers are from Russia, China, Afghanistan, Iran, Afrca, all very confusing.
Danger today in Europe is USA controlled NATO.
This movie was made two years before the microchip was invented and two to four years before modern music came about thanks to Deodato and Herbie Hancock.
Kraftwerk were founded exactly in 1970
Whatever you say, Charley.
13:45 Berlin ...
Está muy bajito. Casi no se oye. Además, porqué no lo traducen al español?
Haga click arriba a la derecha a CC después haga click al icono que parece florecita y allí se abre un menú con los idiomas, le hace click a spanish
@@donnabaardsen5372 Why don 't you speak Spanish? There are many Hispanics leaving in USA!
@@sabine4759they're leaving and coming all the time across the border. When they come here illegally into our country they should learn English because literally we are an English country lol
@@Goodtimes427 I know the border "problem" in USA! But thats a different subject! Fact is that many Americans not even try learning a foreign language! I 'was living near the American Headquarters in Southern Germany and not one American soldier showed some interest in other languages, even though they had German or French ancestors! They expected us speaking English, damn imperialists!
@@sabine4759 it's a requirement in public schools to take 2 years of a foreign language. We have a choice between French or Spanish. I live in Texas so I chose Spanish but I'm no where near speaking fluently though. I know some bad words lol and I can understand very little only if they speak slowly.
En idioma español latino.....si no no puedo suscribirme.
Film en apparence intéressant mais en anglais, donc je zappe......BYE BYE
In passing, here comes a short history lesson @26:22 re the "bloody Wall": "gets higher all the time" (correct, and it became more inhumane and deadlier all the time), "must cost them a bloody fortune" (true, the materials for the 1,400 km border fortifications were lacking everywhere else in their communist Fourth Reich), "they got guards guarding the workers and guards guarding the guards" (absolutely perverse, yet also true). In the end, more than 1,000 people had been murdered who simply wished to live in West Germany. Die-hard communists keep disputing all these historic facts to this very day. The most despicable and cynical ones among them were and are those who were lucky enough to live in West Berlin or West Germany, anyway. Incorrigible friends of Moscow then and now.
Nowadays it 's better being friends with Moscow than bloody USA! Julian Assange is in prison because he recorded and filmed american war-crimes and atrocities! By the way the Americans were happy about the wall, so they can always blackmail Germany with their sick demands! You don 't have any clue about politics and politicians, haven 't you?
All true... but not the entire truth about the DDR which - unlike the West - did not swiftly rehabilitate 'former' Nazis. To call the Soviet states the Fourth Reich is to minimise the vast suffering inflicted by Nazism on those countries. We live in an era in which open fascism is resurgent in Europe and the USA, so this is not a purely historical question.
@@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx Open fascism exists today with the EU and cancel culture, there is no freedom of speech.
And every generation the fascist fools are reborn
They chose the wrong actor to play this roll, he is not hansom, no personality, so these girls wouldn't be falling for him.
Skip this movie and read a good book.
what a womanizer.
The music takes away from a good picture here.
Just jump thru this implausible, dated tv mess. Trying to cash in on the Bond era, but the production values are so amateur with the wretched, unwatchable dialogue. This disaster makes no sense.
Not watched, after this user review on IMDb:
All Berlin is in the film, but only the polished modern side, nothing of the Berliners, nothing of the wall, nothing of East Berlin, just modern sterility all the way. Richard Burton might have been able to do something of this character, but McGavin does not, but only plays out his brute force. Unfortunately this is a film you will regret having wasted your time on, while you might have been able to watch a much better film - this is miles away from "The Spy that Came in from the Cold", a great story with great characters, while here neither the story nor the characters are great.
Thanks,I give it a watch.
This guy is getting on my nerves.
A stalker, void of charm,,,.LOL
Or : Funeral in Berlin. with Michael
Caine. ?
Only thing...music is cliche. Best if none. The intrusion of theatric organ is jarring. Otherwise, like it.
Gawd, what terrible music.