Caprice (film)
| Movie | |
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| German title | Caprice |
| Original title | Caprice |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1967 |
| length | 98 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Frank Tashlin |
| script | Frank Tashlin Jay Jayson |
| production |
Martin Melcher Aaron Rosenberg |
| music | Frank De Vol |
| camera | Leon Shamroy |
| cut | Robert L. Simpson |
| occupation | |
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Caprice is an American film from 1967 starring Doris Day and Richard Harris .
action
Patricia Foster is a cosmetics professional who works for Femina Cosmetic in Paris , run by Sir Jason . One day she is caught selling company secrets in the Eiffel Tower restaurant . The buyer turns out to be an undercover agent and Patrica is arrested. The “seriously disappointed” Sir Jason decided not to file an advertisement in order to preserve the reputation of his company, but wanted to prevent Patrica from ever being able to work for a cosmetics company in Europe again .
On the way home she is ensnared by the Englishman Christopher White to come with him. She defends herself with a punch, whereupon Matthew Cutter, the owner of the competitor company May Fortune Cosmetics , appears and begs her to work for him. Patrica agrees and follows the gentlemen to America . There she is anesthetized by White on the first evening with a sleeping pill and deprived of the company secret. Cutter had only hired her to gradually steal company secrets from competitors. Patrica, unaware of this, has other plans. In truth, her release was only meant to be smuggled into May Fortune. Sir Jason had hired her to steal the formula for a new water-repellent hairspray from the competition . The eccentric Dr. Stuart Clancy is the official inventor of this hairspray. Clancy, who turns out to be extremely irascible and pompous, has various safety precautions. When Patrica is in his office, she recognizes his secretary Su as the girl who is wearing the hairspray on the secretly recorded film. Attempting to steal some of Su's hair is a huge failure. White, who was watching her the whole time, claims to know of her plans to work as a double agent for Sir Jason and Cutter. Sir Jason confirms this.
But Patrica realizes that Christopher is playing the wrong game when she sees that he is hiding a microphone to listen to her. Patrica defends herself. by turning the tables and drowning the mic hidden in a sugar cube in her coffee. White investigates and finds out through an old friend of Patrica, who works as a mannequin at May Fortune , that her real name is Phillipa Fouwler. She has since found the hairspray and the unconscious Su in her apartment. Both have to flee from the police when Clancy suddenly appears. Patrica informs White that her father Robert was shot and killed by an unknown skier ten years ago while skiing in Switzerland . He had found out that the head of a drug ring was a woman. Patrica then investigated and then came up with Sir Jason as a suspected accomplice, which she could never prove. Christopher destroys the hairspray to keep Patrica from handing it to Sir Jason. Both find out that the bottle the spray is filled in comes from Switzerland, where Clancy's mother-in-law and children also live. When she hears that Clancy likes to ski, she immediately travels to Switzerland.
There Patricia finds out that Madame Piasco, the mother-in-law of Dr. Clancy who came up with the groundbreaking invention. After she bought a bottle of the "free to buy" hairspray, she wants to drive up the mountain to the place where her father was shot. On the way there she is also chased by an unknown figure on skis before she is rescued by Christopher at the very last moment. Patrica tells him about the hairspray. When he is not surprised, she finds out that the whole time it was not about the spray, but about Madame Piasco. Christopher explains to her that Sir Jason just wanted new information about Clancy, who once worked for Femina, but only became successful after his dismissal and hiring at May Fortune. Patrica suspects him or his mother-in-law to be responsible for her father's death. And also that he shot her. However, she sees no connection to the drug ring. Christopher explains to her that it is impossible because the city they are in is snowed in and only two women have arrived. One of them was Patrica. This is now completely at the end, but is caught by Christopher, who tells her that he loves her and that she needs someone to take care of her.
The next day they meet Clancy while on a carriage ride. Christopher arranged this meeting so that Patrica could lure him back to Femina on false pretenses. The bribery attempt is recorded by him in images and sound. Cutter, who wanted to do just that all along to bring down Sir Jason, is overjoyed. When Patrica hears about it from Sir Jason, she angrily runs to Christopher to take the film from him. On the way, the Paris inspector, who also arrested her at the Eiffel Tower, wants to arrest her again. Christopher rushes to her aid and identifies himself as an Interpol agent, so he works for a total of three sides.
Together they share the results of the investigation with the police. Patrica had found ashes in Su's apartment and had them analyzed. She found out that May Fortune Cosmetics' face powder was used for drug smuggling. Everyone is convinced that Cutter and Clancy are behind this. When Patrica wants to meet Cutter in his Paris office, she is captured by Clancy, dressed in women's clothes. It turns out that Clancy is her father's killer and also the woman she thought was the head of the gang, as he likes to wear women's clothes. A fight ensues in which a shot goes off and Clancy kills. Patrica is then forced onto the roof by Sir Jason because he is the real head of the gang. In an exchange of fire, Christopher manages to incapacitate Sir Jason, while Patrica floats away in a runaway helicopter.
In the end, you succeed in a spectacular landing on top of the Eiffel Tower. Patricia and Christopher become a couple after the latter promises with a wink to stop the espionage and to be loyal to it.
criticism
"Persiflage of agent films, which after reasonable beginnings turns more and more into a crime film without a line and clear subject matter."
"Everything as usual: clown freckled face, Hollywood perfection, nice gags and dummy luxury."
Web links
- Caprice in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Caprice. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 196/1967.