Rapid Film was a German film production company established by producer Wolf C. Hartwig. Based in Munich, it operated from the late 1950s to the mid-1980s producing low-budget but commercially successful genre films. During the 1960s Rapid established a distribution arrangement with the leading German studio Constantin Film, and provided the company with many of its hit releases.[1] During the 1970s Hartwig concentrated on producing sex comedies such as the Schoolgirl Report series.
It should not be confused with a company of the same name owned by French producer Bernard Natan during the silent era.[citation needed]
Selected filmography
- All the Sins of the Earth (1958)
- Horrors of Spider Island (1960)
- Final Destination: Red Lantern (1960)
- Satan Tempts with Love (1960)
- Island of the Amazons (1960)
- Between Shanghai and St. Pauli (1962)
- The Hot Port of Hong Kong (1962)
- Melody of Hate (1962)
- The Black Panther of Ratana (1963)
- Homesick for St. Pauli (1963)
- Storm Over Ceylon (1963)
- The Secret of the Chinese Carnation (1964)
- Massacre at Marble City (1964)
- Coffin from Hong Kong (1964)
- A Handful of Heroes (1967)
- Lotus Flowers for Miss Quon (1967)
- Emma Hamilton (1968)
- Madame and Her Niece (1969)
- The Young Tigers of Hong Kong (1969)
- So Sweet... So Perverse (1969)
- Holiday Report (1971)
- Nurse Report (1972)
- The Disciplined Woman (1972)
- The Girl from Hong Kong (1973)
- No Gold for a Dead Diver (1974)
- Cross of Iron (1977)
- Breakthrough (1979)
References
- ^ Bergfelder p.84
Bibliography
- Bergfelder, Tim. International Adventures: German Popular Cinema and European Co-Productions in the 1960s. Berghahn Books, 2005.
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