Extra sheet (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Extra sheet |
| Original title | The Front Page |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1974 |
| length | 105 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Billy Wilder |
| script |
Billy Wilder I.AL Diamond |
| production | Paul Monash |
| music | Billy May |
| camera | Jordan Cronenweth |
| cut | Ralph E. Winters |
| occupation | |
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Extrablatt is a film satire directed by Billy Wilder from 1974. It is based on the play Reporter (original title: The Front Page) by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur .
action
Hildy Johnson is a top reporter for a Chicago tabloid in the late 1920s (June 6, 1929 is mentioned as the day in the film). Tired of the constant stress at work, he decided to quit the job, marry his girlfriend Peggy Grant and join the advertising industry with his future father-in-law's brother.
His boss, the scheming publisher Walter Burns, is of course not enthusiastic about losing his best horse in the stable . He tries to prevent this by all means.
The day before Earl Williams is scheduled to be executed, reporters from the various newspapers come to the press room of the courthouse to see the preparations. They pass the time with card games until Hildy appears, who wants to say goodbye to his colleagues.
But then Earl Williams can seize a weapon during the final medical examination and flee. Now the reporters and the sheriff can no longer be stopped, and a turbulent chase ensues. Meanwhile, Hildy discovers that Williams is still in the building. He succeeds in luring him into the now orphaned press room and questioning him there.
Hildy is more and more drawn into the spell of the course of events. Not least under the influence of Burns, he decides to write one last cover story about this incident. As expected, that's not enough for Burns. After the conclusion of the story, he uses coercion - otherwise he threatens to publish the "whole truth" in his newspaper before the upcoming new election - the mayor to prevent the train with the fiancee Peggy from leaving until he and Hildy are at the station with a police escort. There he says goodbye to the lovers at the train window with best wishes and gives Hildy the pocket watch with the dedication of his deceased father and predecessor as a newspaper publisher. When the train has left, he goes to the station officer and asks him where the train will stop next. After he tells him the station, he orders him to notify the local police that they should get a Hildebrand Jones from the train who has stolen his pocket watch. This enabled him to prevent the wedding and win back his star reporter Hildy for his newspaper.
backgrounds
The story was filmed twice before and again later:
- 1931 The Front Page with Adolphe Menjou as Burns and Pat O'Brien as Hildy directed by Lewis Milestone
- 1940 His Girl Friday (OT: His Girl Friday ) with Cary Grant as Burns and Rosalind Russell (as Hildy), directed by Howard Hawks
- 1988 A woman is her husband (OT: Switching Channels ) by Ted Kotcheff with Burt Reynolds and Kathleen Turner , here the newspaper reporters are television reporters.
synchronization
The German dubbing was created in 1974 in the studios of Berliner Synchron GmbH , Berlin , under the direction of Dietmar Behnke . Lutz Arenz wrote the dialogue book .
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Hildebrand "Hildy" Johnson | Jack Lemmon | Georg Thomalla |
| Walter Burns alias Otto Fishbine | Walter Matthau | Martin Hirthe |
| Peggy Grant | Susan Sarandon | Ute Meinhardt |
| Murphy, * reporter for another newspaper |
Charles Durning | Michael Chevalier |
| Roy Bensinger (as * Murphy) | David Wayne | Leo Bardischewski |
| 'The Honorable Pete' Hartmann, Sheriff | Vincent Gardenia | Klaus Havenstein |
| Earl Williams | Austin Pendleton | Stefan Behrens |
| Kruger (as * Murphy) | Allen Garfield | Joachim Röcker |
| Dr. Max J. Eggelhofer | Martin Gabel | Klaus Miedel |
| Mr. Plunkett | Paul Benedict | Wolfgang Spier |
| Black | Herbert Edelman | Eric Vaessen |
| Endicott | Lou Frizzell | Wolfgang Völz |
| mayor | Harold Gould | Heinz Petruo |
| Mollie Malloy | Carol Burnett | Barbara Ratthey |
| Rudy Keppler | Jon Corkes | Andreas Mannkopff |
| McHugh (as * Murphy) | Dick O'Neill | Gerhard Schinschke |
| Wilson | Noam Pitlik | Edgar Ott |
| Jennie | Doro Merande | Ursula War |
Reviews
"Third film version of the indestructible comedy [...], brought a little out of step by some lengths and coarseness, but thanks to excellent actors still very amusing and also effective in the tragic dimensions."
“Comedy old master Billy Wilder created a slapstick-laden, bitterly evil satire on journalism and justice and their relationship to money, fame and power. Although Wilder moved the plot to the late 20s, the atmosphere is shaped by the experiences of the 70s: Watergate , Vietnam , student revolts. The well-rehearsed actor duo Lemmon / Matthau delivered a real bravura with their delicious verbal battles, which has not lost any of its liveliness even today. "
Awards
- Best Film - Musical / Comedy (Nomination)
- Best Actor - Musical / Comedy: Jack Lemmon (nomination)
- Best Actor - Musical / Comedy: Walter Matthau (nomination)
David di Donatello Awards, Italy
- 1975 David for best director of a (foreign) film to Billy Wilder
- 1975 David for best (foreign) actor to Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau , together with Burt Lancaster for violence and passion (Italy 1974)
DVD release
- The extra sheet . Carol Media 2008
literature
- Ben Hecht , Charles MacArthur : Reporter. A piece in three acts (original title: The Front Page) . Edited for the German stage by Rudolph Lothar (not for sale stage manuscript). Felix Bloch Erben, Berlin undated
Web links
- Extra sheet in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Extra sheet from Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Extra sheet in the online film database
- Extra sheet in the German dubbing index
Individual evidence
- ↑ Switching Channels in the English language Wikipedia
- ↑ Extrablatt (1974) in Arne Kaul's synchronous database ( Memento of the original from January 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; Retrieved November 1, 2008
- ↑ Extra sheet. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed May 3, 2017 .
- ^ Prisma Online, accessed May 3, 2017
