The unlucky knight

Movie
German title	The unlucky knight
Original title	Opportunity knocks
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	1990
length	97 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Donald Petrie
script	Nat Bernstein , Mitchel Katlin
production	Mark Gordon , Chris Meledandri , Terry Spazek
music	Miles Goodman
camera	Steven B. Poster
cut	Marion Rothman
occupation
	Dana Carvey : Eddie Farrell; Robert Loggia : Milt Malkin; Todd Graff : Lou Pesquino; Julia Campbell : Dr. Annie Malkin; Milo O'Shea : Uncle Max; James Tolkan : Sal Nickles; Doris Belack : Mona Malkin; Sally Gracie : Aunt Connie; Mike Bacarella : Pinkie Morino;

The Knight of Misfortune (Original title: Opportunity Knocks ) is an American comedy film directed by Donald Petrie from 1990 .

action

The fraudsters Eddie Farrell and Lou Pesquino break into a house where they are hiding from the gang leader Sal Nickles. You hear on the answering machine that the host is away for a long time. Farrell then impersonates that man. He meets his sister Annie Malkin, a doctor. She thinks he's her brother's best friend. Eddie falls in love with her.

Annie and Eddie become a couple. Farrell gets work as head of marketing for the company owned by Annie's father.

Malkin learns who Farrell really is, whereupon she breaks up with him. Farrell's friend Pesquino is kidnapped by Nickles. Farrell pays Nickles debt with money from the safe in Annie's father's office. After Pesquino is released, he, Farrell, and two other friends set a trap for Nickles. The gangster bribes a supposed city official to get the order to blow up a building for his demolition company. Since the building was not supposed to be blown up, he was arrested after it was blown up over the weekend.

Eddie visits Annie at the hospital where she works and asks her forgiveness. She forgives him after his friends faked an accident in front of Annie in front of the hospital entrance.

Reviews

Hal Hinson noted in The Washington Post that Dana Carvey, while slightly amusing, was not suitable for the lead role. His talent is "too lean" for that.

The well-known US film critic Roger Ebert said in the Chicago Sun-Times that the film borrows from comedies like The Secret of My Success and The Soldiers of Fortune and owes its best moments to the chemistry between Carvey and Loggia. However, the thread of the plot with both characters is not sufficiently developed.

The lexicon of international films wrote that the film was "entertainment based on traditional patterns, convincing through solid acting."

The film magazine Cinema summarized: "Harmless, humorous impostor fun."

background

The film was shot in Los Angeles and Chicago . It grossed about $ 11.4 million in US theaters.

Web links

The misfortune knight in the Internet Movie Database (English)
The knight of misfortune at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
The unlucky knight in the online film database
The unlucky knight in the German dubbing file

Individual evidence

↑ Washington Post Film Review , Hal Hinson, March 30, 1990
↑ movie review from Roger Ebert , Chicago Sun-Times , March 30, 1990
↑ The Unlucky Knight. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed November 4, 2017 .
^ Film review by Cinema
↑ Filming locations for The Bad Knight
↑ Box office results for The Unlucky Knight

[1] Washington Post Film Review , Hal Hinson, March 30, 1990

[2] vie review from Roger Ebert , Chicago Sun-Times , March 30, 1990

[3] The Unlucky Knight. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed November 4, 2017 .

[4] Film review by Cinema

[5] Filming locations for The Bad Knight

[6] Box office results for The Unlucky Knight