The black sheep (film)

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Movie
Original title The black sheep
The black sheep logo 001.svg
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1960
length 94 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Helmuth Ashley
script István Békeffy ,
Hans Jacoby ,
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (novel motifs)
production Utz Utermann
Claus Hardt
music Martin Böttcher
camera Erich Claunigk
cut Walter Boos
occupation

The Black Sheep is a humorous black and white crime film by the Austrian director Helmuth Ashley based on the stories of Gilbert Keith Chesterton about Father Brown . It premiered on December 19, 1960. The main role was played by Heinz Rühmann , for whom this film was one of his greatest successes in the post-war period. The film found a successor in He Can't Let It Go 1962. Martin Böttcher wrote the succinct music for both films .

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Much to the chagrin of his bishop, Father Brown has once again played a detective , tracking down a murderer and therefore getting a prominent spot in the newspapers instead of the police, in the form of Inspector Graven (Bishop: “It was there a day before the Brigitte Bardot to see "). He is transferred to the small town of Bray and accompanied there by his housekeeper Mrs. Smith.

Arriving there, he made the acquaintance of the impoverished Lord Kingsley in search of donors for the church extension, who gave him some shares. From the banker Conelly, however, Father Brown learns that these are completely worthless. Shortly thereafter, Conelly is murdered while watching a television broadcast of a football game at the hotel of Father Brown's old friend, Flambeau . The television broadcast (in the voice of sports reporter Sammy Drechsel ) is interrupted by a power failure. Inspector Graven, who has also been transferred to the nest, is at a loss. Shortly before, a theater company led by the actor Emilio Scarletti had stayed at the Flambeau hotel. Now Father Brown's shares are stolen and he learns from his housekeeper, who has peeked through the keyhole, that Lord Kingsley is the thief. When Father Brown tries to get the shares back from his castle, he watches as the Lord sells his remaining shares to the seedy Mr. Gordon. Father Brown finds out that the supposedly worthless shares have now risen to ten times their value and that the murdered bank director Conelly received a telegram with the same message shortly before his death.

While walking, Father Brown discovers a similarity between the appearance of Scarletti and Gordon on a theater poster of the Scarletti troupe and sends his friend Flambeau, a former safe-cracker, to the theater to see if the stocks are there. Instead, Flambeau even brings the found stocks back to the hotel, which is enough for Inspector Graven, who arrives there, to arrest him. Of necessity, Father Brown now has to deal again with the solution to the criminal case. Scarletti is also murdered during the theater performance. Father Brown first thinks Lord Kingsley is the murderer, but can then convict Scarletti's twin brother, who has appeared as Mr. Gordon. The newspaper headlines that followed prompted the Bishop to transfer Father Brown to the remote island of Abbotts Rock . The relieved Father Hilliard greets him with the words: “This island needs less a good priest than a competent detective inspector.” Father Brown smiles mischievously and says that God's ways are unfathomable.

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Others

  • A third film, entitled The Adventures of Cardinal Braun (1968, in color), also with Heinz Rühmann, is often cited with the two black and white films, but has nothing in common with the Pater Brown stories after Chesterton.
  • For the role of Flambeau was first Günter Pfitzmann provided. However, it had grown a little too big for Rühmann and he refused it. Instead, Siegfried Lowitz was hired, with whom he could interact on an equal footing.
  • Some of the outdoor shots were actually shot in Ireland , the rest in Munich . However, the producers made a mistake: when driving in a police jeep , the steering wheel is on the left. As there is left-hand traffic in Ireland too , the car should have had the steering wheel on the right-hand side. This car ride was recorded in the German studio with a rear projection .
  • Another inconsistency is that during the shooting with Miller, the pastor takes turns to call him and his name. The same pane was also shot several times in the shooting.
  • The script was based on the themes of the stories The Hammer of God , The Judicial Mirror or The Man in the Passage and The Sins of Prince Saladin .
  • At the end of the film, Father Brown not only sustained an injury to his arm, but also a black eye, the origin of which is not cleared up.
  • Heinz Rühmann pronounces the name of his housekeeper Smith consistently incorrectly ("Smiss")

Awards

Web links

Wikiquote: The Black Sheep  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The black sheep. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 12, 2016 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used