The Pledge is a crime novella by Swiss author Friedrich Dürrenmatt, published in 1958, after Dürrenmatt thought that his previous movie script, Es geschah am hellichten Tag did not have a realistic en
First edition cover, U.K. release
Es geschah am hellichten Tag is a 1958 German-language thriller film directed by Ladislao Vajda. The original screenplay was written by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, a Swiss playwright and novelist, and this
The Pledge: Requiem for the Detective Novel
…Das Versprechen) is a crime novella by Swiss author Friedrich Dürrenmatt, published in 1958, after Dürrenmatt thought that his previous movie script, Es geschah am hellichten Tag ("It happened in broad daylight") did not have a realistic ending. The film's star, the popular actor Heinz Rühmann, had insisted that Dürrenmatt…
Es geschah am hellichten Tag 1959
The inn featured in the film, Gasthaus zum Löwen in Bonstetten, photographed in 2014