Cash - The unstoppable career of private ass

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Movie
German title Cash - The unstoppable career of private ass
Original title Whiffs
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1975
length 92 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
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Director Ted Post
script Malcolm marble stone
production George Barrie
music John Cameron
camera David M. Walsh
cut Robert Lawrence
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Cash is a 1975 American comedy film directed by Ted Post and starring Elliott Gould and Jennifer O'Neill .

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Dudley Frapper has had a remarkable career as a guinea pig for the US military. At the Army Chemical Corps' Duggam Proving Ground, he has had to undergo several chemical tests. Now Dudley is trying out a new gas called GZS-2, which has the little hope-giving nickname "the red death". Exposed in the desert, a low-flying airplane sprinkled him with the same substance. But Dudley is so hardened by all the attempts of recent years that he stumbles and chokes, but otherwise apparently survives the attack unscathed. Dr. Gopian, watching a movie of the experiment, tells Frapper's superior Col. Lockyer that Dudley's growing immunity to gases has made him an unreliable test subject. From the pretty brunette military base nurse Lt. Scottie Hallam, Frapper is nursed back to life in the military hospital, Dudley now suffers from gagging and severe flatulence when he gives the Colonel and Dr. Gopian describes his symptoms. Despite his impotence, one of the ugly side effects of the attempts, Dudley claims that this time he got an erection during the gas attack. Though Scottie demands that Dudley be left alone for a few weeks, Col. Lockyer orders him to a lab to test a new nerve agent. A civilian is at his side this time: Chops Mulligan is a criminal convicted of armed robbery who volunteered for the experiment in order to reduce his prison term. This experimental setup causes convulsions in both men and they lose their ability to articulate themselves precisely. Lockyer subsequently throws Dudley off the program for mental instability. The guinea pig receives only a paltry sum of money from the army due to his current disability.

Dudley thinks it's all very unfair and pissed off. He cannot taste food or have sex, his hair is falling out and turning white in other places, and he suffers from a variety of muscle spasms. Scottie assures him that she will help him return to civilian life. Dudley takes on a number of jobs like packing groceries and selling shoes, but his coughing fits and frantic convulsions, all of which are a result of military experiments, prevent him from making a sensible new start. During a visit to Dudley's, Scottie brings a canister of nitrous oxide to stimulate his residual sexual skills, with little success. When Dudley later walks into a bar, he meets Chops sitting next to him. The crook plans to rob the bartender after work. The theft goes wrong as the bartender overpowers Chops, but Dudley chills the beard man with laughing gas. Chops opens the till and shares the money with Dudley. Later, while visiting a restaurant, Chops is amazed at how the gas works and how it could make the use of firearms or other forms of violence superfluous. He convinces Dudley that since the army abused him, he has the right to steal more gas in his future medical exams in Duggam. Detective Sgt. Poultry of the Police Department in Salt Lake City, Utah, interrogates the chop-attacked bartender, who only remembers that he laughed and kept hearing a hissing noise during the robbery.

Dudley returns to the Duggam military base one more time, steals several "R Gas" canisters and smuggles them out of the base in his van. Using gas masks, he and Chops rob a restaurant without any resistance. When Poultry then questions the waiters and guests, all they remember is that they saw glass-eyed monsters with "metal snouts". The officer suspects a gas attack and goes to Duggam to question Colonel Lockyer. Meanwhile, Dudley and Chops “grace” two banks in a remote town called Tooele. At a small airport they recruit "Dusty", the black pilot of a spray plane. They convince him that the city council gave them the job of spraying the city with insecticides. Dudley returns to base to steal more nitrous oxide canisters. On the day of the robbery, Dudley and Chops set off smoke bombs on Tooele's two streets, then enter town wearing gas masks while Dusty sprays the gas from the plane on the town. Thick yellow smoke pervades the streets, and Sgt. Poultry calls Col. Lockyer to report the attack. He in turn sets his own people and nurse Scottie in motion. Everyone is heading towards Tooele.

Meanwhile, Dudley and Chops rob the two banks of the small town. Then they flee in Dudley's delivery van, pursued by the approaching military, who locate the two robbers in a canyon and fire them with nitrous oxide mortars. Meanwhile, Dusty lands his biplane nearby, and Dudley instructs him to swing his tail rudder and wag the gas swirling towards them back at the pursuers. Dudley throws the prey on the plane, and he and Chops jump on the wings. Dusty starts his machine to fly out of the canyon. Dudley, dazed by the gas cloud, suddenly feels his sexual strength return. He jumps off the wing and runs to Scottie, who is with her medical unit. Now both can finally make love in a medical emergency vehicle, of course with gas masks in front of their faces. Scottie promises Dudley, who wants to leave for Mexico, to comply as soon as possible. His escape succeeds because the gas-fogged Colonel Lockyer staggers around aimlessly, unable to stop Dudley.

Production notes

Cash - The unstoppable career of Private Ass was filmed in Salt Lake City, Los Angeles, Dugway, Stockton and Tooele (all Utah) on August 26, 1974, and premiered on October 14, 1975. In Germany, the film only opened on January 13, 1978.

CO Erickson took over the production management. Fernando Carrere designed the film structures, Bob Signorelli provided the equipment.

The film's producer, George Barrie , received an Oscar nomination in the Best Movie Song category for his song ( Now That We're in Love ) along with lyricist Sammy Cahn .

useful information

The location of Tooele was chosen carefully by the makers of the film. The US military stores a considerable part of their chemical weapons in the Tooele Army Depot.

Reviews

The Los Angeles Times reviewer found the film "as funny as a fire in a retirement home."

Halliwell's Film Guide said it was "an arcade comedy with vague anti-war and anti-pollution" messages.

For the Movie & Video Guide this film was "another sad attempt to recapture the madness of M * A * S * H."

The lexicon of the international film found: "Unsuccessful attempt at a satire on the military, because of the inadequately developed script, largely turned out flat and cluttered."

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Los Angeles Times, October 15, 1975
  2. ^ Leslie Halliwell : Halliwell's Film Guide, Seventh Edition, New York 1989, p. 1108
  3. ^ Leonard Maltin : Movie & Video Guide, 1996 edition, p. 1447
  4. ↑ Cash - The unstoppable career of Private Ass. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 29, 2020 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 

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