The big hit

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Movie
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
Rod
Director Sam Wood
script Herman J. Mankiewicz
Jo Swerling
production Samuel Goldwyn
music Leigh Harline
camera Rudolph Maté
cut Daniel Mandell
occupation
synchronization

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:

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
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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The great success. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. ↑ The great success. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on September 22, 2018 .