Poppy is also a flower

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Movie
German title Poppy is also a flower
Original title The Poppy Is Also a Flower
Country of production France , Austria , USA
original language English
Publishing year 1966
length 100/80 (TV version) minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Terence Young
script Jo Eisinger
production Adolf Eder ,
Euan Lloyd ,
Karl Spiehs
music Georges Auric
camera Henri Alekan
cut Monique Bonnot ,
Henry Richardson ,
Peter Thornton
occupation
synchronization

Poppy is also a flower (original title: The Poppy Is Also a Flower ) is a star-studded anti-drug film by Terence Young from 1966. The French-Austrian-American co-production was based on a story by Ian Fleming .

action

When the US drug investigator Benson is murdered in the Iranian desert after trying to buy opium from a nomad leader , the United Nations sends agents Lincoln and Jones to the Persian Gulf to smash the drug ring there. Their assignment first leads the two agents to Tehran , where they meet Linda, allegedly Benson's widow. A short time later, however, it disappeared again. Together with UN scientists, the two agents succeed in intercepting a cargo of opium, marking it with a radioactive tracer and putting it into circulation again, in order to then track it through the drug traffic with the help of a Geiger counter . They stay on the trail of the opium for a while until it disappears.

Finally, the Naples police reported that they had confiscated the said cargo from a certain Playboy named Serge Markos in Monte Carlo . Lincoln is already on the way and is looking for the wealthy Markos on his yacht . When he gets there, a happy party is going on, at which he surprisingly meets the attractive Linda again. Looking for answers, Lincoln tries to question Marko's wife Monique. However, this is hopelessly drug addict and can therefore give no information. The next morning, Lincoln is found dead. Agent Jones now has to carry on the job alone. To do this, he follows Markos on a train to Paris . Also this time the mysterious Linda is on board, who finally reveals herself as a UN agent. After escaping an attack by Markos' men, they return to his yacht, where they eventually find enough evidence to expose Markos as both the head of the drug ring and the murderer.

background

The film is based on a story by James Bond inventor Ian Fleming. Produced The Poppy Is Also a Flower as the last of the United Nations of four television movies, about their role and mission in the world politics and diplomacy to illustrate. It has also been released internationally as a feature film. The actors each received a symbolic fee of just one dollar. The film was shot on original locations in Iran, Naples, Rome , Nice and Monte Carlo , among others .

At the beginning of the film, Grace Kelly alias Princess Gracia Patricia von Monaco can be seen as herself in a kind of introduction . Singer Trini López also has a guest appearance as himself and sings the songs La Bamba and Lemon Tree .

Alternative titles in the English-speaking world are Poppies Are Also Flowers , The Opium Connection , Operation Opium and Danger Grows Wild .

Reviews

For the lexicon of international films , poppy is also a flower was "a puzzling, because fluidly staged agent film based on a model by 'James Bond' creator Fleming". Although "the plausibility of the story [...] is clouded by some improbabilities", it "at least gets by without ostensible sex and violence". The Protestant film observer saw in the film an "[d] average tear [...] who uses the information about the fight against illegal drug smuggling only as a pretext for a spread-like act". The result is simply “superfluous”.

The US magazine Time called poppy a flower as "another James Bond film without James Bond". So a large number of viewers would like "that it would have been shot without a film". The “best thing that can be said about this film” is “that it works like a drug, but is hardly addictive”. According to the Motion Picture Herald , "an impressive cast with popular names [...] is what makes this film so appealing". However, it is "a shame that the dialogue from Jo Eisinger's script often does not do justice to the story". Weekly Variety found that "fortunately the all-star cast" was able to "master individual characters sufficiently to make their little roles believable".

Awards

In 1967, Eli Wallach won an Emmy for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama for his role in Poppy Is Also a Flower ; he prevailed against the also nominees Leo G. Carroll and Leonard Nimoy .

German version

The German dubbed version was created in 1966 at Studio Hamburg Atelierbetriebsgesellschaft mbH based on the dialogue book by Hans Harloff and directed by Werner Bruhns .

role actor Voice actor
Coley Jones EG Marshall Heinz Engelmann
Sam Lincoln Trevor Howard Günther Ungeheuer
Serge Markos Gilbert Roland Friedrich Schuetter
Monique Markos Rita Hayworth Inge Langen
Captain Vanderbilt Anthony Quayle Horst Niendorf
Linda Benson Angie Dickinson Brigitte Grothum
Colonel Salem Yul Brynner Rolf Boysen
"Happy" Locarno Eli Wallach Ullrich Haupt
Night club dancer Senta Berger Senta Berger
Inspector Mosca Marcello Mastroianni Peer Schmidt
Benson Stephen Boyd Werner Bruhns
Dr. wheel Omar Sharif Günther Dockerill
Dr. Bronovska Nadja Tiller Nadja Tiller
Superintendent Roche Georges Géret Lothar Grützner
Salah Rahman Khan Hugh Griffith Heinz Klevenow
General Bahar Jack Hawkins Arnold Marquis
Police captain Di Nonno Amedeo Nazzari Friedrich Schoenfelder
Martin Harold Sakata Rudolf Fenner
Chasen Barry Sullivan Hellmut Lange
Dr. Pineau Howard Vernon Günther Jerschke
than himself Trini López Charles Brewer

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gene Ringgold: The Films of Rita Hayworth . Citadel Press, Secaucus 1974, p. 235.
  2. ↑ A poppy is also a flower. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed May 31, 2019 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ↑ Protestant film observer . Review No. 190/1966.
  4. ↑ “ The Poppy Is Also a Flower is another James Bond movie without James Bond, and many will wish it had been filmed without film. [...] The very best that can be said about this picture is that it's junk, but hardly habit-forming. " See Time quoting. after Gene Ringgold: The Films of Rita Hayworth . Citadel Press, Secaucus 1974, p. 237.
  5. ↑ “A powerful lineup of marquee names makes the success of this film. [...] It is too bad, then, that the dialogue, from a script by Jo Eisinger, frequently falls far below what it ought to be. " Cf. Motion Picture Herald quoted. after Gene Ringgold: The Films of Rita Hayworth . Citadel Press, Secaucus 1974, p. 237.
  6. ↑ "Fortunately, the big-name cast is uniformly able to restrain individual personalities sufficiently to make their brief roles believable." See Weekly Variety cit. after Gene Ringgold: The Films of Rita Hayworth . Citadel Press, Secaucus 1974, p. 237.
  7. ↑ A poppy is also a flower. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on May 31, 2019 .