Head up, chest out!

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Movie
German title Head up, chest out!
Original title Carry on sergeant
Country of production Great Britain
original language English
Publishing year 1958
length approx. 82 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Gerald Thomas
script Norman Hudis
production Peter Rogers
music Bruce Montgomery
camera Peter Hennessy
cut Peter Boita
occupation

Head up, chest out! is the first film in the series of carry-on… films.

content

Sergeant Grimshaw want a success in pension go. The problem with this, however, is that his new recruits are stupidly old recruits. He is assigned conscripts who have already passed their actual zenith of performance. Of course, this group stumbles from one mishap to the next. When Grimshaw was already anticipating a catastrophe, his recruits showed the best performance of all departments at the end of their training and gave their sergeant a pleasant exit.

Remarks

With the first film in the series, it was not yet clear that 29 more films would follow in the end. On the one hand, the characters were not yet worked out in the way they were later, so that one knew immediately which actor was playing which role. On the other hand, not all the main actors are on board yet, but Kenneth Williams, Kenneth Connor, Hattie Jacques and Charles Hawtrey are already in the first part. Also some of the recurring actors from the second row (Eric Barker, Bill Owen, Terence Longdon, Norman Rossington, Cyril Chamberlain, Frank Forsyth, Anthony Sagar, Terry Scott and Ed Devereaux), while the actual lead role is comedian Bob Monkhouse (As the Pictures learned to walk) , which did not appear in any other film in the series. In the end, the result was a piece of clothing without depth, but the way it was made doesn't hurt anyone. The typical carry on… style developed from the second film in the series, 41 degrees love .

German version

The German dubbing was created in 1959 in the studios of Rank Film Synchronproduktion Hamburg . Erwin Bootz wrote the dialogue book, Edgar Flatau directed the dubbing . The German premiere was on May 29, 1959.

role actor Voice actor
Sergeant Grimschau William Hartnell Walter Klam
Charlie Sage Bob Monkhouse Hubert Hilten
Mary Sage Shirley Eaton Roswitha Kramer
Captain Potts Eric Barker Werner Lieven
Nora Dora Bryan Kathe Pontow
Corporal Bill Copping Bill Owen Friedrich Schuetter
Peter Goliath Charles Hawtrey Sebastian Fischer
Harry Stark Kenneth Connor Joseph Offenbach
Jim Bailey Kenneth Williams Wolf Rahtjen
Miles Haywood Terence Longdon Gert Günther Hoffmann
PhD Hattie Jacques Katharina Treller
Chamber Sergeant Cyril Chamberlain Werner Schumacher
Andy Riesenberg Gerald Campion Gert Niemitz

Reviews

  • "Shabby farce with humdrum script and slack direction, saved by energetic performances." (Halliwell's Film & Video Guide, London 1998)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Head up, chest out! in Arne Kaul's synchronous database ; Retrieved October 19, 2008
  2. ^ "Lexicon of International Films" (CD-ROM edition), Systhema, Munich 1997
  3. Head up, chest out! In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used