The sweet life of Count Bobby

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Movie
Original title The sweet life of Count Bobby
The sweet life of Count Bobby Logo 001.svg
Country of production Austria
original language German
Publishing year 1962
length 92 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Géza from Cziffra
script Albert Anthony
production Sascha film
( Herbert Gruber )
music Peter Laine
camera Willy Winterstein
cut Arnfried Heyne
occupation

The Sweet Life of Count Bobby is an Austrian comedy film directed by Géza von Cziffra . The film produced by Sascha-Film was launched in German cinemas on April 27, 1962.

It was the continuation of the film The Adventures of Count Bobby from the previous year.

action

Count Bobby and Baron Mucki founded the detective agency Pfiff & Greif in order to finally get some money. Shortly before the bankruptcy of their company, they received a lucrative order from Benevenuto Sokrates Socre: They were supposed to convict a gang of girl traffickers.

Count Bobby disguises himself as a woman in order to have a higher chance of success and is hired to accompany some young girls. The journey takes them to the Land of Maritima, where they work together at the Dolce Vita, a floating nightspot with a casino. Bobby falls in love with the dancer Vera.

It slowly turns out that his client is the head of an international drug smuggling gang. Count Bobby and Baron Mucki finally manage to arrest the smugglers' gang thanks to the help of undercover police officer Johnny H. Clayton.

History of origin

Prehistory and pre-production

After the great public success of the film The Adventures of Count Bobby , Constantin-Filmverleih, in cooperation with Wiener Sascha-Film, immediately planned a sequel. Directed should again Géza von Cziffra lead, who also wrote the screenplay under the pseudonym Albert Anthony.

production

Filming began in Vienna in early 1961 . The studio recordings were made in the studios of Wien-Film and Bergland-Film. The Design designed the set designer Fritz Jüptner-Jonstorff and Alexander Sawczynski . Paul Seltenhammer was responsible for the costumes . The cameraman was Willy Winterstein . Herbert Janeczka and Rolf Schmidt-Gentner acted as sound engineers . Production manager was Karl Schwetter .

music

Label of the single Der bathtub tango , 1962

The original film music was written by Peter Laine . The following songs were used in the film:

The hits The bathtub tango , Ay Vera and Das Leben ist doll appeared in 1962 on various singles , the piece Das Glücksrad on an EP from the Polydor label . The remaining titles appeared in 1997 in the film versions on CD .

reception

publication

The Voluntary Self-Regulation of the Film Industry was The Sweet Life of Count Bobby only provided from 12 free, that a certain dialogue was cut. In it, Gunther Philipp advises Peter Alexander that he should go into the next room, lie down next to the woman resting in bed and let his natural charm work its magic.

On April 27, 1962, the film was released in the Federal Republic of Germany.

continuation

After The sweet life of Count Bobby had also proven to be a popular success, Constantin Filmverleih planned another sequel for the spring of 1963 with the title The Great Nights of Count Bobby . In the color film, again produced by Sascha-Film, the actors Vivi Bach , Karin Dor , Ralf Wolter and Hubert von Meyerinck were planned alongside Peter Alexander and Gunther Philipp . The announcement text of the film distributor promised the cinema owners “new cheers and full box office again when Peter Alexander pulls out all the stops for charm and comedy again. A proven ensemble of actors is at the side of the singing hero of the "great nights". A sure blockbuster. "

However, the film project was never realized. Instead, Sascha-Film produced the sequel Graf Bobby, the horror of the Wild West, for Gloria film distribution in 1966 .

Reviews

“No, there is no whipped cream tossing in this film. People in Vienna have obviously grown tired of such jokes. This time it's much more original, because which producer would have thought of dropping people into swimming pools, chasing away a foolish band of attackers with a fire extinguisher and, above all, letting a man in women's clothes run around? And because none of this is new, this film doesn't seem funny any more than anything that the entertainment series Oskar Sima, Gunther Philipp, Bill Ramsay and Peter Alexander have brought to the screen so far. "

- Hamburger Abendblatt , June 2, 1962

"Slapstick at a shamefully low level."

- Lexicon of International Films

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Alexander: Filmtreffer, 4 . Bear Family Records . 1997. Order no. BCD 15995 AH
  2. ↑ test no. 27 888, AA v. April 25, 1962
  3. ↑ Jürgen Kniep: No youth approval! Film censorship in West Germany 1949–1990 . Göttingen 2010, p. 159
  4. ↑ Constantin-Film's distribution program: Announcements for the 1962/63 season
  5. ↑ The sweet life of Count Bobby . In: Hamburger Abendblatt . June 2, 1962, p. 11 ( Abendblatt.de ( Memento from January 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) [PDF; 1.7 MB ]).
  6. ^ Entry in the Lexicon of International Films .