Rapid Film

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.^{[citation needed]}

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

1. Bergfelder p.84

Bibliography

• Bergfelder, Tim. International Adventures: German Popular Cinema and European Co-Productions in the 1960s. Berghahn Books, 2005.