Upside down into the night
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Upside down into the night |
| Original title | Into the night |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1985 |
| length | 115 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | John Landis |
| script | Ron Koslow |
| production |
George Folsey Jr. , Ron Koslow |
| music | Ira Newborn |
| camera | Robert Paynter |
| cut | Malcolm Campbell |
| occupation | |
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Into the Night (original title: Into the Night ) is an American action - thriller with comedic and parodic elements of John Landis from the year 1985th
action
Ed Okin is a married satellite company employee who is not happy in his personal life, causing him sleepless nights. His wife seems only superficially interested in him. Due to the lack of sleep , he is not always alert at work, which soon becomes apparent, so that one day he goes home early to catch up on sleep. He sees a car parked in front of the house and hears unambiguous noises from the bedroom window: his wife is cheating on him.
Later that evening he doesn't show anything to his wife, and once again he can't sleep. He spontaneously decides to go to the airport. In the parking garage, a couple of four Persians are attacked and the man is stabbed to death; however, the woman named Diana manages to tear herself away and flee. She jumps into Ed's car and he escapes with her. When he tries to report the attack to a policewoman, Diana decelerates and asks him to take her to a friend's boat named Jack. Diana is not allowed on board, however - the bodyguard leaves her outside. As they are just gone, the Persians come to visit him, who are completely devastating the cabin because they are looking for something. Diana lets Ed drive her to her brother, an Elvis imitator. He is not happy to see her either and throws her out. In the meantime, Ed's car has been towed away by the police and they “borrow” her brother's car.
Diana repeatedly persuades Ed to continue driving her. You visit a friend of hers while shooting a film. Diana gives her six emeralds , which she hides in her cloak for her. It turns out that Diana smuggled these emeralds, which were part of the crown treasure of the deposed Shah of Persia, into the United States for her acquaintance, who was killed at the airport. Diana and Ed are being hunted down by former staff members of the Persian secret service and by French gangsters.
They repeatedly escape both groups and Diana gets to the coat of her friend, who has since been killed by the Persians. When they finally find Jack, he advises Diana to sell the emeralds to the mastermind behind the Persian gang. Ed and Diana make this deal, but are arrested again by the four Persians at the airport. The French, who are also present, attack the Persians, but the FBI notified by Jack kills both groups in a firefight, Ed and Diana are saved.
The FBI places them in a motel and receives $ 750,000 in a large travel bag - a gift from Jack. When Diana takes a shower, Ed can finally fall asleep. When he wakes up again, Diana is not there; he finds two wads of banknotes in an envelope with his name in his jacket. While looking for her he discovers in the motel corridor that he slept a whole day. Suddenly Diana is standing at the end of the aisle with the large travel bag and asks him if they want to go to the airport.
background
The film was shot in Los Angeles and Inglewood . It grossed approximately $ 6.7 million in US theaters .
As in most of John Landis' films, there are numerous cameos from fellow Hollywood members. In addition to Landis himself, the directors Jack Arnold , Paul Bartel , David Cronenberg , Jonathan Demme , Carl Gottlieb , Amy Heckerling , Jim Henson , Colin Higgins , Lawrence Kasdan , Paul Mazursky , Daniel Petrie , Don Siegel and Roger Vadim play small roles to see. Makeup expert Rick Baker also makes a brief appearance. In addition to pop singer David Bowie , who portrays a French gangster, rockabilly singer Carl Perkins also appears in a supporting role as a bodyguard.
In one scene at Hamid's apartment, Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein on television .
The title track “Into the Night” and other tracks on the soundtrack are played and sung by BB King .
Reviews
Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times of March 8, 1985 that the film was an "inconsistently funny", "pointless" and "unnecessary" thriller. Unlike Beverly Hills Cop , he also has no style and no focus. Some of the scenes would work, but the film would require more discipline from the director.
"Following a trend of recent years, John Landis [...] staged a special kind of crime comedy: a mixture of tough action and absurd humor, a brutal burlesque, a shrill [sic!] Thriller to shoot."
Cinema described the film as "a turbulent odyssey in which guest stars [...] give each other a hand" and summarized: "Action lapstick that is guaranteed to keep you awake." For the lexicon of international films , the night was upside down a “cautiously staged, funny and entertaining thriller with satirical and parodic elements”, which offers “upscale entertainment” despite a few dramaturgical gaps and a socially critical approach that is not quite consistent.
Awards
John Landis won a special jury award at the French Cognac Festival du Film Policier in 1985.
The German Film and Media Assessment FBW awarded the film the rating “valuable”.
synchronization
| role | actor | speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Ed Okin | Jeff Goldblum | Norbert Gescher |
| Diana | Michelle Pfeiffer | Cornelia Meinhardt |
| Ellen Okin | Stacey Pickren | Rita Engelmann |
| Herb | Dan Aykroyd | Jürgen Kluckert |
| Charlie | Bruce McGill | Ulrich Gressieker |
| Colin Morris | David Bowie | Frank Glaubrecht |
| Jack Caper | Richard Farnsworth | Friedrich W. Building School |
| Joan Caper | Vera Miles | Barbara Adolph |
Web links
- Into the Night in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Into the Night with Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Headlong into the night in the online film database
- Headlong into the night in the German dubbing index
Individual evidence
- ^ Filming locations for Into the Night
- ↑ Box office / business for Into the Night
- ^ Review by Roger Ebert
- ↑ Head over into the night on cinema.de
- ↑ Upside down into the night. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Headlong into the night on fbw-filmbassy.com
- ^ Head first into the night in the German dubbing index