Van der Valk und das Mädchen
aka Van Der Valk and the Girlaka Pas de frontière pour l'inspecteur - Le milieu n'est pas tendre aka Gun Before Butter
Directed by Peter Zadek
Writers: Nicolas Freeling (novel), Robert Muller, Peter Zadek
1973
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Frank Finlay ... Piet van der Valk
Cyd Hayman ... Lucienne Englebert
Françoise Arnoul ... Solange de Winter
Oskar Homolka ... Commissaris Sanson
Werner Finck ... Mankiewicz
Pierre Vaneck ... Stam / de Winter
Peter Roggisch ... Royaard
Françoise Prévost ... Arlette
Hans Jaray ... Engelbert
Günter Lamprecht ... Bernard Neefs
Frank did three films as Piet van der Valk. The films, made for TV, were a German French co production but were all filmed in English. Nicolas Freeling's agent had managed to sell the rights twice, once to the film production company for the novels but then also to Thames Television to the character of Van Der Valk which Thames were developing into a series starring Barry Foster using new stories/scripts. A court case ensued and the films were never shown in the UK.