Ben Dova

Ruby Dennis is an middle-aged man with an unfulfilled ambition as a singer. As he begins to pursue that ambition, his family falls apart.

German director Hans Noever shot this crime drama in the U.S. in English, an unusual achievement at this time. The setting is Jefferson City, Missouri, and Joseph Randolph (Martin West), a VIP in a fictional electronics company, has just gotten the sack. The company bigwigs insist it is simply because of downsizing, but Randolph is not buying it. Enraged, he gets a handgun (this is the U.S.) and shoots five managers to death. Then he turns himself in and is eventually put in a psychiatric hospital by the police. His family suffers a series of tragedies that leave only his daughter to wonder about why her father was committed to an institution. She joins with a visiting reporter from Chicago and another interested man, and all three start digging deeper into the company's history.

ニューヨーク。老人が雑踏の中、銀行の貸金庫から出してきた小箱を男に手渡した直後、交通事故死した。この事故をマラソン・トレーニング中のベーブは目撃した。ベーブの兄ドクはアメリカ政府機関の男で例の箱を売り込もうとしたが常に命を狙われていた。一方、南米ウルグアイにいるナチの残党ゼルは、老人の事故死を知るやニューヨークへ飛ぶ。ある日ベーブは図書館でエルザと知り合うが公園でデート中２人の男に襲われる。