The Lord with the MP
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The Lord with the MP |
| Original title | Le Saint prend l'affût |
| Country of production |
France Italy |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1966 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Christian-Jaque |
| script | Christian-Jaque, Jean Ferry |
| production | Jean-Paul Guibert |
| music | Gérard Calvi |
| camera | Pierre Petit |
| cut | Jacques Desagneaux |
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The Lord with the MP (original title: Le Saint prend l'affût ) is a Franco-Italian crime film with a cheerful note from 1966 by Christian-Jaque , who - together with Jean Ferry - wrote the script. It is based on a novel by Leslie Charteris . The main roles are Jean Marais , Raffaella Carrà , Jess Hahn and Henri Virlojeux . The film was first shown in theaters on October 26, 1966 in France. It had its premiere in the Federal Republic of Germany on November 25, 1966.
action
He is neither a lord nor does he use a submachine gun (MP), but he lives in a Scottish castle: Simon Templar , a successful soloist in international gang circles, reverently called "The Holy One". This time he is not planning a new coup, but instead helps his friend Oscar Chartier out of gratitude for a former life saver, who not only has not paid a middleman for any documents, but also turned the worthless things on to two secret services. So now three parties are after the sum that Oscar's friends have taken into custody, but always pass on to each other. “The Holy One” does not shy away from a journey, however long, to bring the bundles of banknotes intended as trousseau for Oscar's daughter Sophie to safety.
After several adventures and in possession of the fortune, Simon Templar has the greatest effort to dissuade Oscar, who has become honest through various brainwashing, from voluntarily returning the illegally received wages.
Reviews
The Protestant film observer judges rather mediocre: “Christian-Jaque is a multi-talented director. Lately, however, his films have also become more and more serial products and only show in details that liveliness that he achieved most perfectly in the cheerful area in 1951 with ' Fanfan, der Husar '. [...] Heavily coarse parody of agent films. Better for adults than plenty of turbulent entertainment. ”The lexicon of international film comes to a better assessment :“ Turbulent and imaginative modification of the usual adventure film. ”
Web links
- The Lord with the MP in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Movie poster
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Evangelischer Filmbeobachter , Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 49/1967, p. 71.
- ↑ Lexicon of international films, rororo-Taschenbuch No. 6322 (1988), p. 2320.