Horst Buchholz stars as Freddy, the leader of a mob of teen thugs who are always getting into one kind of trouble or another.
His brother Jan (Christian Doermer) comes to see him and soon finds himself also wrapped up in Freddy's web of crime and deceit. Freddy is a brutal but ultimately dumb young man who has no feelings for anyone but himself.
His sexy girlfriend Sissy Bohl (Karin Baal) turns out to be as unstable as Freddy. Both are driven by theft, violence and murder. The downfall starts when Freddy plots the theft of a mail truck and it turns out to have no money on it at all.
They later rob an elderly man's home and end up killing him. This is a very brutal and well made film whose credits were changed by DCA in order to try and hide the fact that it's a German import film.
This is the movie that got Buchholt's career off of the ground and you can easily see the talent this man had. If you haven't seen the movie, I would suggest you do. It's not too widely known and that's sad because it's good.
Most of the leads in the film had very good careers and as I said, watch and you'll see why. The print is from a beautiful 35mm that Sinister has.
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