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''Kill Cruise'' (
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title ''Der Skipper'') is a 1990
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directed by Peter Keglevic and starring
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,
Patsy Kensit Patricia Jude Francis Kensit (born 4 March 1968) is an English actress and singer. Beginning her career as a child actor, Kensit gained attention when she acted in a string of commercials for Birds Eye frozen peas. She went on to appear in films ...
, and
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Bella Donna reports a
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. The victim, Paul Pelikan, drowns before he can be rescued. People in the Bella Donna's home port of
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suspect that the Skipper deliberately pushed Paul overboard because he'd had an affair with the Skipper's wife Mona ( Grażyna Szapołowska). Though nothing is proven, Mona believes the Skipper did in fact throw Paul overboard and leaves him. Heartbroken, the Skipper spends most of his time at the local bars getting drunk and swearing he will sail again, though the townspeople don't take his claim seriously. Meanwhile, two English girls Su (Kensit) and Lou (Hurley) are barely making a living singing at local clubs. Though fast friends, there seems to be tension between the two. They put on a show at the California Bar that night, singing an
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version of
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(translated as ''You're Leaving Me''). The Skipper is present for the performance and falls hard for the two, especially after Lou performs an impromptu
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at the end. After spending the night with the two girls, the Skipper agrees to their request to sail them to
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. Though the voyage will take four weeks, all seems to be well at the start. The Skipper does express some concern in his
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about how close the two girls are, then injects himself with a
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. As time passes, Su flirts with the Skipper, but becomes upset when her advances are ignored, revealing a somewhat unbalanced personality. As tensions further mount, Su snoops through the Skipper's quarters and finds his serum bottles, syringes and his log book. She tells Lou that she thinks the Skipper is a murderer and a drug addict. When he discovers the missing serum, which turns out to be insulin, he throws Su overboard with a line, in an attempt to get her to reveal where she hid it. He pulls her back in and gives her an ultimatum, "I'll give you one hour". He soon becomes very ill and incapacitated. A desperate Lou eventually finds the insulin and injects the Skipper, saving his life. A grateful Skipper later confesses his love for Lou. Lou responds "What about Su?" The Skipper replies "What ''about'' Su?" Su then walks in on them having sex. Su is heartbroken and starts crying. Lou, feeling guilty, tries to comfort Su. Things seem to have smoothed over at the end, when the girls reprise their act, singing "You're Leaving Me" again. Without warning, Lou shoots the Skipper with a spear gun, killing him almost instantly. In terror, Su flees below deck. Lou takes a moment to draw a heart and arrow in the Skipper's pooling blood before going to the galley to make a cup of tea. She seems oddly calm while Su is quaking in terror over what's happened. Lou tries to calm Su down but ends up smothering her with a pillow. As the end title states, three weeks later, the Bella Donna drifts to the Caribbean island of St. Lucia, with no one aboard.


Production details

*Filmed on location in Gibraltar and
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.


Critical reception

*''"Trivial thriller, psychologically implausible, with a weak acting performance." ("Trivialer Thriller, psychologisch unglaubwürdig und mit schwachen schauspielerischen Leistungen.")'', Lexikon des internationalen Films *''"Logic goes overboard pretty early..." ("Die Logik geht ziemlich früh über Bord...")'', CinemaCinema (in German), revisited Feb. 22 2010
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External links

*{{IMDb title, id=0100633, title=Kill Cruise
''Der Skipper''
on RetroFlix


References

1990 films 1990 crime thriller films German crime thriller films West German films Films directed by Peter Keglevic English-language German films Films shot in Gibraltar Seafaring films Films set in the Atlantic Ocean 1990s German films