The big wolf is calling

Movie
German title	The big wolf is calling
Original title	Father Goose
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	1964
length	116 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Ralph Nelson
script	Peter Stone , Frank Tarloff
production	Robert Arthur
music	Cy Coleman
camera	Charles Lang
cut	Ted J. Kent
occupation
Cary Grant : Walter Leslie Caron : Catherine Trevor Howard : Frank Jack Good : Lt. Stebbings Sharyl Locke : Jenny Pip Sparke : Anne Verina Greenlaw : Christine Stephanie Berrington : Elizabeth Jennifer Berrington : Harriet Laurelle Felsette : Angelique Nicole Felsette : Dominique Peter Forster : Pastor Simon Scott : Submarine Captain Don Spruance : Navigator
synchronization

The big wolf is calling (Original title: Father Goose ) is an American comedy film directed by Ralph Nelson from 1964. The film is based on a story by HH Barnett . The German premiere was on February 19, 1965.

action

At the beginning of the Second World War, the dropout Walter Eckland stayed afloat as a beachcomber in the South Pacific . His friend Frank, an officer in the Australian Navy, urges him to work as a coastal observer for the Allies. He is taken to an island in the dunes, from which he is supposed to monitor the overflying Japanese planes. As an incentive, various hiding places with whiskey have been created on the island. For each sighting, Walter is given the location of a hiding place. To ensure Walter's stay on the island, Frank rams a hole in Walter's boat while leaving.

When Frank finds a replacement for Walter, Walter is supposed to pick him up on a nearby island. The problem is the enemy-ridden waters. Walter takes a small boat to the island and meets the Frenchwoman Catherine, who is stranded there with seven young schoolgirls. She tells him that the man he came for was killed in an air raid. Walter takes the woman and the girls to his island.

The nine islanders cannot be evacuated, but they get supplies that are dropped by parachute. The spoiled French woman and the sloppy American soon get on each other's nerves. But Walter soon adapts to her and the girls. Catherine is surprised to learn that Walter was a history professor before breaking out of society. The two fall in love and are married by an officer over the radio.

The ceremony is disrupted by a Japanese airman. But through the radio, Frank was able to locate Walter. An evacuation by submarine is planned, but at the same time a Japanese patrol boat turns up. As bait, Walter drives his boat onto a reef so that the submerged submarine can get to the enemy ship and torpedo it. Ultimately, Walter's boat also blows up, but he survives and can be saved with the others.

background

Cinematographer Charles Lang won his only Oscar 30 years before this film was set . The film architects Henry Bumstead and Alexander Golitzen worked together several times. In 1963 they both received an Oscar together, Bumstead another one in 1974, while Golitzen had received a statue each in 1944 and 1961.

Reviews

The film-dienst called The Big Wolf calls out as a “love comedy with less original patterns, but amusing because of the playfulness of the actors” and continued: “The American-Japanese theater of war serves as an idyllic background for the cabinet pieces of a 'superior' American individualist . ” Cinema magazine noted that the romance of the film borrows from John Huston's African Queen . The conclusion was nevertheless positive. "Funny duel with good characters."

The Protestant film observer saw "an unusual American film amusement game" and came to the conclusion that the excellent direction and the differentiated presentation made the film an almost unadulterated pleasure.

Awards

Academy Awards 1965

• Won:
  • Best Original Screenplay - Peter Stone, Frank Tarloff, SH Barnett
• Nominated:
  • Best Editing - Ted J. Kent
  • Best note - Waldon O. Watson

Golden Globe 1965

• Nominated:
  • Best film - comedy or musical

Further awards

• Golden Laurel as "Top Comedy"
• Golden Laurel (2nd place) for Cary Grant as an actor in a comedy

synchronization

The German dubbed version was created by Berliner Synchron GmbH based on the dialogue book by Fritz A. Koeniger under the direction of Dietmar Behnke .

role	actor	Voice actor
Walter	Cary Grant	Curt Ackermann
Catherine	Leslie Caron	Marianne Mosa
Frank	Trevor Howard	Heinz Engelmann
Pastor	Peter Forster	Martin Hirthe
Submarine captain	Simon Scott	Konrad Wagner
navigator	Don Spruance	Randolf Kronberg

Web links

• Father Goose in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Father Goose at Rotten Tomatoes (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The big wolf calls. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed July 26, 2018 .  
2. ↑ See cinema.de
3. ↑ Evangelischer Presseverband München, Critique No. 73/1965, p. 138.
4. ↑ The big wolf calls. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on July 26, 2018 .