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Released
1958 · FILM

It Happened in Broad Daylight

Directed by
Runtime
100 min
Language
DE
CrimeDramaThriller

Synopsis

A search for a child murderer leads a once-respected detective into an all-consuming obsession.

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How many hands made this film

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Principal cast & crew: 19

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Hermann HallerShot by Heinrich GartnerScored by Bruno CanforaDesigned by Max Rothlisberger

Also known as

  • Es geschah am helllichten Tagde
  • It Happened in Broad Daylighten
  • El ceboes
  • El ceboes
  • Ça c'est passé en plein jourfr
  • Ça s'est passé en plein jourfr
  • Avvenne in pieno giornoit
  • Il mostro di Mägendorfit

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