Forgotten movie cars: the Maserati Quattroporte from "Der Mörder mit dem Seidenschal"
"The Maserati must never reach the exit road, otherwise we'll just be looking into its exhaust pipe!" The Austrian gendarmerie didn't have a car that could keep up with the world's fastest saloon in 1966. Even the Porsche Cabriolet, with its maximum 90 hp, is lost on a straight line. So the cops do everything they can to drive the fugitive back into town.
What follows is a five-minute chase through Vienna, during which both the Quattroporte and the 356 B emit their real engine noises for most of the time and not a standard roar that has been dubbed over afterwards. In fact, the Porsche crew manages to keep up with the 260 hp sedan in the city bustle of streetcars and horse-drawn carriages. But in the end, it takes a Mercedes-Benz 190 and two VW Beetles to beat the Maserati.
Although the title suggests another part of the successful Edgar Wallace series by Rialto-Film, "Der Mörder mit dem Seidenschal" (engl. "The murderer with the silk scarf") is an independent Aquila production. But there are similarities: Ady Berber, whose dead eyes terrified the whole of London in 1961, plays the detective inspector here. And car fans, at least, would still like to take a look at the Maserati's exhaust pipe. Interestingly, it has twice as many as usual.
