The big hit
Movie | |
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German title | The big hit |
Original title | The Pride of the Yankees |
Country of production | United States |
original language | English |
Publishing year | 1942 |
length | 128 minutes |
Age rating | FSK 6 |
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Director | Sam Wood |
script |
Herman J. Mankiewicz Jo Swerling |
production | Samuel Goldwyn |
music | Leigh Harline |
camera | Rudolph Maté |
cut | Daniel Mandell |
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The big throw (Original title: The Pride of the Yankees ) is an American biopic by Sam Wood from 1942, in which Gary Cooper played the lead role as baseball player Lou Gehrig .
action
It tells the life story of the most popular baseball player in the USA: Lou Gehrig . As the son of German immigrants, he grew up before the First World War and dreams of becoming a famous baseball player. Living in poor conditions, his parents have only one goal. Her son is supposed to attend Columbia University and become an engineer. Lou attends college and continues to pursue his athletic career. Sports journalist Sam Blake discovers talent and promotes it. He makes sure that Lou gets a contract with the New York Yankees . Lou gets into the best baseball team in the world. He falls in love with the young Eleanor and, in addition to his personal fortune, gains the reputation of one of the most solid players in the league. Since he never misses a game, he is nicknamed "The Iron Man of Baseball".
In 1938 his career is almost coming to an end. Gehrig is playing his weakest season. However, the reason was not his advanced age, but a serious illness. Gehrig has ALS . The entire fan base follows the course of their hero's illness, and the illness is named "Lou Gehrig Syndrome". Lou Gehrig enters New York's Yankee Stadium one last time and speaks his farewell words to his fans. In 1941 he died at the age of 37.
background
The script, which Damon Runyon , Paul Gallico , Vincent Lawrence and Casey Robinson also worked on, was based on a story by Paul Gallico based on the life of Lou Gehrig . Samuel Goldwyn produced the film just a year after Gehrig's death. Numerous former fellow athletes appeared in the film, all of whom played themselves. Leading actor Gary Cooper worked for the fourth time with Walter Brennan after My Man, the Cowboy , The Westerner and Sergeant York .
The RKO brought the film to the German cinemas in 1955. In the television version broadcast in 1975, Gary Cooper received the voice of Heinz Drache .
Reviews
The lexicon of international films found that Woods film combined "exciting sports scenes with a humanly moving fate and milieu studies from the American petty bourgeoisie". The actors' performances are "above average".
Awards
At the Academy Awards in 1943 , the film editing was awarded the Oscar . The film was nominated in a total of eleven categories:
- Best movie
- Best Actor - Gary Cooper
- Best Actress - Teresa Wright
- Best Original Story - Paul Gallico
- Best script adaptation - Herman J. Mankiewicz, Jo Swerling
- Best camera / black and white film - Rudolph Maté
- Best editing - Daniel Mandell
- Best Score - Leigh Harline
- Best Production Design / Black and White Film - Perry Ferguson , Howard Bristol
- Best note - Thomas T. Moulton
- Best Special Effects - Jack Cosgrove , Ray Binger , Thomas T. Moulton
synchronization
A German dubbed version was created in 1975 for television at Arena Synchron , Berlin. Fritz A. Koeniger wrote the dialogue book . The dialogue direction was carried out by Hans D. Bove .
role | actor | Voice actor 1975 |
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Lou Gehrig | Gary Cooper | Heinz Dragon |
Eleanor Twitchell | Teresa Wright | Almut Eggert |
Babe Ruth | Babe Ruth | Heinz Engelmann |
Sam Blake | Walter Brennan | Klaus Miedel |
Hank Hanneman | Dan Duryea | Wolfgang Draeger |
Christina Gehrig | Elsa Janssen | Ursula War |
Henry Gehrig | Ludwig Stössel | Walter Bluhm |
Bill Dickey | Bill Dickey | Joachim Cadenbach |
Miller Huggins | Ernie Adams | Gerd Martienzen |
Frank Twitchell | Pierre Watkin | Friedrich Schoenfelder |
Clinic doctor | Edward Fielding | Ernst Wilhelm Borchert |
Web links
- The master stroke in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The master stroke at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The great success. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ The great success. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on September 22, 2018 .