All handles allowed

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Movie
German title All handles allowed
Original title Sit tight
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1931
length 74 minutes
Rod
Director Lloyd Bacon
script William K. Wells
production Warner Brothers
music Ernö Rapée
camera William Rees
cut James Gibbon
occupation

All Handles Allowed is an American pre-code film directed by Lloyd Bacon from 1931. The plot is based on a story by Rex Taylor .

action

Doctor Winnie O'Neill is the resolute owner of Dr. O'Neill's health farm. Among other things, artificial sunbathing , endurance training and muscle building courses are offered. At her side is the slim but talkative and in love with her assistant Herbert, who has acquired numerous diplomas through distance learning courses , including a degree in wrestling . Since then he only calls himself "Jojo the Tiger" and believes that he is the only one who can defeat everyone in the ring. As an assistant, however, he is only moderately useful, so he flirts with a supposed patient and forgets a customer in the tanning machine. The patient, on the other hand, only wanted to apply for a position as a nurse and is outraged when she is asked to unbutton her blouse in front of Jojo. Her husband Olaf promptly chases Jojo on a chase and in the end wrestles him to the ground. Tom Weston, who happens to be present, finally saves Jojo from Olaf, whom he struggles to defeat.

Winnie is thrilled because Olaf, her former ex-husband, was once a successful wrestler who won championship titles as "Olaf the Finn". She wants to make Tom an equally successful wrestler. Tom is fine, because he lost his job as a securities dealer with Sally's father because of his bitchy but rich girlfriend Sally Dunlap and is therefore looking for a job. Sally is now sorry for her behavior and so she is horrified when she hears that Tom wants to become a ringer. She announces that she will leave him should he actually step into a ring. Tom still trains hard and is finally set up as a challenger against the reigning world heavyweight champion in the ring. Since Sally's father couldn't stop him from his first fight with words and money either, he had him kidnapped from the cabin to his ship shortly before the fight. Winnie, who has wagered all of her money and part of her health farm on Tom's victory, is desperate. In order to gain time until the main fight, Jojo competes in an intermediate fight against an unknown opponent who turns out to be Olaf. Due to numerous coincidences, Jojo succeeds in defeating Olaf. In the meantime, Tom, who is tied up in a ship's cabin, has been able to attract attention and is freed by the unsuspecting Sally. The ship brings both of them back to shore, where Sally eventually attends Tom's wrestling match, which Tom wins. Tom and Sally become a couple again and Jojo is happy too, because Winnie has promised him to marry him in the unlikely event of Tom's return and victory.

production

All handles allowed was initially planned as a musical . The musical stars Claudia Dell and Paul Gregory were hired for the film, but their vocal parts were removed from the film when musicals went out of fashion. Only the title Face It With a Smile , sung by Winnie Lightner, remained in the film.

The film contains a dream sequence Jojo takes place in a harem . Here the slave girl Miami appears to him as Sultan, who looks like his lover Winnie. The costumes and sets of the 1930 film Kismet were used, which are now considered lost.

All Handles Allowed came into US theaters on February 28, 1931. The German premiere took place on September 30, 1996 on the TV station Das Erste .

criticism

The Lexicon of International Films rated Alle Griffe Perm as “a tolerably amusing comedy by the cast Lightner / Brown; the weak script only makes for tired jokes. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ All handles are allowed in the Lexicon of International FilmsTemplate: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used , accessed on April 14, 2012