The man from the Diners Club
| Movie | |
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| German title | The man from the Diners Club |
| Original title | The Man From the Diners' Club |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1963 |
| length | 96 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Frank Tashlin |
| script | William Peter Blatty |
| production | Bill Bloom |
| music | Stu Phillips |
| camera | Hal Mohr |
| cut | William A. Lyon |
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The Man from Diners Club is a 1962 American comedy film directed by Frank Tashlin and starring Danny Kaye in the lead and title role. Telly Savalas plays his opponent . With this film Kaye ended regular activity for the cinema.
action
Ernie Klenk is a small employee of the Diners Club. Since he intends to get married soon, his thoughts are completely different when he passes on a credit card from the company in question, which ultimately ends up with gangster Foots Pulardos. The ground in the USA is getting too hot for that, so he wants to leave for Mexico with his bride Sugar Pye. As soon as he has the Diners Club card in his hands, Klenk's boss gives his employee hell: he is horrified by his employee's faux pas and makes it clear to Klenk that he should definitely take the card of the respected credit card company from the crook, no matter how. An extremely turbulent cat-and-mouse game begins immediately, which puts Ernie in the most impossible situations.
Pulardos conducts his criminal activities behind the facade of a gym, where Ernie shows up under the guise of a fitness trainer who is looking for a job here. Pulardos notes that he and the man from the Diners Club have a physiognomic characteristic in common: the left leg is three centimeters longer than the right. This gives the villain the idea to burn down his shop with Ernie in it, so that the dead Ernie will be mistaken for him, Pulardos. If Klenk's corpse is held for him, the “dead” gangster, Pulardos wants, according to his plan, to leave with Sugar Pye to Mexico to start a new life there. As if Ernest didn't have enough problems, his bride Lucy now also puts pressure on her, who suddenly becomes jealous because of Ernest's frequent proximity to Sugar Pye. Things soon come to a head, and while Pulardos and Sugar Pye make their way to the airport with Ernest's Diners Club card to buy two tickets to Mexico with their credit card, Ernest now has to act as quickly as possible. Finally he succeeds in leaching the coveted piece of plastic from Pulardo's ...
Production notes
The man from the Diners Club had its world premiere on April 17, 1963 in New York, in Germany the film premiered on August 29 of the same year. The film opened in Austria in the same month. On June 3, 1968 the film could be seen for the first time on German television ( ARD ).
Don Ament designed the film structures, William Kiernan was the set designer. Pat Barto was responsible for the costumes.
Reviews
In the Lexicon of International Films it says: "Lovable Danny Kaye comedy of high quality."
"Danny certainly went on more inspiring antics than here, but it's okay as slapstick."
"Less important star comedy with comical moments that survive a sloppy script."
Individual evidence
- ↑ The man from the Diners Club. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 1, 2019 .
Web links
- The man from Diners Club in the Internet Movie Database (English)