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.
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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