The sympathetic impostor
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The sympathetic impostor |
| Original title | Living It Up |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1954 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Norman Taurog |
| script |
Jack Rose , Melville Shavelson |
| production | Paul Jones |
| music | Walter Scharf |
| camera | Daniel L. Fapp |
| cut | Archie Marshek |
| occupation | |
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The sympathetic impostor , alternative title Patient with Roof Damage , is a US comedy film from 1954. It is a remake of William A. Wellman's film Denen is Nothing Holy (1937).
action
Homer Flagg is station master in the tiny desert town of Desert Hole, a town with just five houses. But Homer dreams of going to New York one day to finally experience something. At the first opportunity he jumps on a freight train to drive away. But his car is coupled to a military train and drives away in the other direction. As he runs away from the soldiers, he happens to end up on the atomic bomb test site in Los Alamos , where he steals a contaminated car and later thinks he is contaminated and only has three weeks to live.
In New York, the young reporter Wally Cook learns about Homer's fate from the Morning Chronicle and persuades her publisher Oliver Stone to grant Homer his last wish and bring him to New York. Homer has since been told by his doctor and best friend, Dr. Steve Harris learned that it was a misdiagnosis and that he is neither contaminated nor sick. When Wally shows up in Desert Hole, both men pretend that he is sick after all, because on the one hand they have both fallen in love with Wally and on the other hand they want to see New York for free.
In New York, Homer takes full advantage of people's gifts and compassion. During a dance evening, he collapsed in front of hundreds of witnesses due to his heavy alcohol consumption, which now makes the media even more aware of him. Wally is so worried about him that she wants to marry him. Steve, however, is in love with her and kisses her, which Homer is secretly observing. The wedding bursts in front of all the guests and Homer pretends to be crazy. While Homer sleeps off his intoxication, Wally calls three specialists from Hong Kong , Vienna and Paris on Oliver's account to take care of Homer. Steve wants to prevent this, otherwise the fraud will be exposed, and wants to smuggle Homer out of the hospital. He is knocked out and Homer pretends to be a patient. When the mix-up is discovered, the correct Homer is examined, with the two using the same trick (a clock in the X-ray machine) to obtain the misdiagnosis.
The fraud is exposed and Stone is outraged that he was removed. Wally is furious too and wants Homer to fake suicide to save her and his reputation. On the Brooklyn Bridge , Stone also wants him to jump to save his newspaper's reputation. The mayor wants to save him and urges him to stay. Homer jumps into the rowboat that Steve and Wally are sitting in and sinks it. He survives but is pronounced dead.
At the memorial service, Homer and Steve are given the cleaning service. Steve has now married Wally. Happy that they are staying in New York, they both clean the streets singing.
criticism
The film-dienst called Ein likeable impostor a "with a lot of slapstick and grimace comedy, but in parts also with sparkling humor, staged remake of William A. Wellmans Denen is nothing sacred , USA 1937."
For Cinema , the film was "Slapstick with criticism of the sensational press".
Web links
- Living It Up in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The likeable impostor. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ See cinema.de