Wer die Killer ruft

Originaltitel: Sam's Song

1969
Not Rated
1 Std. 29 Min.

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Robert De Niro in Wer die Killer ruft (1969)

Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuA film editor spends a weekend in Long Island with his friends Andrew and Erica Moore, a wealthy couple. Later, a young woman named Carol enters their lives and proceeds to disrupt everyone.A film editor spends a weekend in Long Island with his friends Andrew and Erica Moore, a wealthy couple. Later, a young woman named Carol enters their lives and proceeds to disrupt everyone.A film editor spends a weekend in Long Island with his friends Andrew and Erica Moore, a wealthy couple. Later, a young woman named Carol enters their lives and proceeds to disrupt everyone.

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3,4/10

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Fotos13

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Topbesetzung11

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Robert De Niro

Sam Nicoletti

Sybil Danning

Jarred Mickey

Andrew Moore
(as Jered Mickey)

Jennifer Warren

Erica Moore

Terrayne Crawford

Carole Moore

Martin J. Kelley

Mitch Negroni
(as Martin Kelley)

Phyllis Black

Marge Negroni

Vic Ramos

Dennis
(as Ric Vamos)

Margit Echols

Belly Dancer

Viva

Girl with the Hourglass

Monica Davis

Woman at Party
(Nicht genannt)

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The movie was never released theatrically, due to the filmmakers running out of money to secure distribution. It was not until 2007 that the original film, not the 1979 re-cut version, was finally released on DVD.

Alternative Versionen
In 1979, a re-cut version was made by the Cannon Group to capitalize on the Oscar-winning success of Robert De Niro, although the plot is very, very different from the original film. In the new footage, a story was told about how Sammy was killed under mysterious circumstances while finishing the editing a porno film he made (in the original cut, he was editing a documentary about Richard Nixon and insert shots featuring a nude couple having sex were added in its place). His recently paroled older brother Vito (played by Anthony Charnota) is determined to get to the bottom of who killed Sammy. He visits Erica (played in the new footage by Lisa Blount), a secretary, Sammy's former girlfriend Carol (played in the new footage by Sybil Danning), and Andrew Moore, now a homosexual, to get clues about Sammy's death, but things are not as they seem as Vito is encounters double-crosses and near-misses during his quest to solve the mystery.

Verbindungen
Edited into The Swap (1979)

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IMDb info is wrong

Just to let you know: Sam's Song is in fact a finished movie. In my country you can buy a very cheap DVD release which is actually titled The Swap, but it does contain the full movie Sam's Song.

Not that you guys are missing out on anything if they only released The Swap in your country. Sam's Song is also a horrible movie which doesn't seem to have any kind of plot.

De Niro plays some kind of amateur screenwriter/director who is invited by a befriended couple to some big mansion for a party. He meets a girl there and most of the movie is basically De Niro and this girl falling in love (which is translated on screen as the two of them just running around on a beach and stuff like that). Maybe they did in fact run out of money at a certain point because there doesn't seem to be a real ending to this mess.

The dialogues are laughable most of the time, the scenes just seem to jump from one thing to another with no real meaning or purpose. And I couldn't call it acting either what those people on screen are doing.

I can only assume this was some lame and cheap attempt at making an arty farty movie but they failed miserably. Or maybe this "style" of movie was just popular in the sixties, because there's another De Niro movie out there (Greetings, which is in fact directed by Brian DePalma) that's just as bizar as this movie.

Maybe some real hardcore De Niro fans would appreciate to see some early De Niro work like Sam's Song, but I can say without a doubt that this is a strong contestant for the first place in my top 10 of worst movies of all time.