The bride came cash on delivery
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The bride came cash on delivery |
| Original title | The Bride Came COD |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1941 |
| length | 94 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
| Rod | |
| Director | William Keighley |
| script |
Julius J. Epstein , Philip G. Epstein |
| production | Hal B. Wallis |
| music | Max Steiner |
| camera | Ernie Haller |
| cut | Thomas Richards |
| occupation | |
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The Bride Came COD (Original title: The Bride Came COD ) is an American movie from the year 1941 , directed by William Keighley . Bette Davis plays an heiress who runs away and is to be recaptured by a pilot played by James Cagney on behalf of her father . The script is based on a story by Kenneth Earl and MM Musselman. Bette Davis and James Cagney played here for the second time after Ein feiner Herr (Jimmy the Gent) .
action
Oil heiress Joan Winfield meets band leader Allen Brice and decides to run away with him. So she asks the pilot Steve Collins to fly her and Allen. Joan's father Lucius K. Winfield can convince Steve, who is usually clammy, that it is financially more lucrative for him if he brings his daughter back unmarried. He makes it clear to Steve that it won't hurt him. Steve kidnaps Joan without further ado, after which Allen alerts the FBI .
When Joan realizes what Steve has in mind with her, she does all kinds of things to get him to repent; when that doesn't work, she tries to jump off with a parachute . This ultimately leads to Steve crash landing in the middle of the desert .
She then protests against Steve spending the night near her. As she runs off to find a suitable place for herself, she falls into a cactus with the very best of it . When Steve tries to help her remove the spines, she is snappy in thanks. Just when Joan has made herself comfortable for the night, she thinks she hears a coyote howling, so she prefers to run to Steve and fall asleep snuggled up close to him. When Steve wakes up the next morning, Joan is already doing her fitness exercises and sees a desert city. Outraged, she poisons Steve for deliberately keeping her away from this city and angrily pushes him into a cactus. When they reach the city, they have to realize that it is a ghost town , half-crumbling, crooked buildings are all they can spot . Then, however, you see an old hotel that still seems reasonably intact. As they roam the building and startle animals, they suddenly hear a voice that they follow curiously and see, as they later learn, old Pop Tolliver. Pop was just in the shaft of a mine, which he believes is the best refrigerator in the world. He has ham and eggs with him and first of all prepares breakfast for both of them. They learn from him that after the gold mines were closed, the hotel no longer had guests and the city gradually became a ghost town. He's still waiting for a new boom, he says happily.
When Joan tries to make it clear to Pop at a favorable moment that she has been kidnapped, he doubts it. A radio report about the kidnapping comes at the right moment, so that Pop now believes her and wants to help her. He still has an ancient car that just needs to be refurbished. The three of them, Steve helps too, because Pop uses a gun as an argument, they manage to get the car going again. Steve then has to push the old box up a hill so that it gets more momentum when starting, and is then locked by Pop in the city's prison. The car, which starts with a loud bang with Pop and Joan, races down the hill and then lands sideways in the desert sand. Joan lands in the cactus again!
When military planes fly over the area, Joan tries to draw her attention with a mirror. Steve can convince Pop Tolliver, however, that he has the order to bring the young woman back to her father, so that Pop now takes Steve's side and Joan ends up in the cell. When Steve returns after servicing his machine and Joan explains that he will now take it to her father, she outsmarts him and runs away - straight into an old mine. When Steve finds her there, a tunnel collapses. Now scared, Joan makes up with Steve, who has already fallen in love with her. He says that she has successfully blocked the entrance to the mine, whereupon she is pleased to note that he cannot then take her to her father. However, the joy quickly turns into its opposite when you realize what it could mean to be locked in here. Joan is overwhelmed by the situation and pretty much at the end. Meanwhile, Steve is looking for a way out of the tunnel and ends up at Pop again. A machine belonging to the sheriff is circling above the building and immediately afterwards he appears with his assistant. Pop and Steve have since decided not to tell Joan anything about the outcome in order to gain time until Joan's father is there. Since Joan assumes that “it will be her last hours” she becomes very sentimental and in the end they both kiss, whereupon she discovers Steve: “You ate, you mean liar,” she exclaims indignantly, “so there is an exit ”.
In the meantime, the future groom has managed to land in the ghost town together with Justice of the Peace Sobler and other friends. Steve and Pop discover that Judge Sobler has no official powers in this state , so a marriage by him would be invalid. First they try to gain time until Joan's father has landed. So Steve tries to start an argument with Allen and wants him to fight back physically. Steve also manages to get into a fight between himself and Allen, but unfortunately Allen is stronger than him. So you have to rethink to stop the couple. With the ulterior motive of an invalid marriage, if it is closed right here, Pop and Steve Allen suddenly talk to Allen to tie the knot right now and here and not fly to Las Vegas first . Joan is amazed why Steve suddenly cares and doesn't know what to think of it. She is also a little nervous that Steve suddenly pushes for a quick marriage. While the wedding music is still playing, they hear a plane circling overhead. The registrar declares Joan and Allen to be husband and wife. Steve fails to convince both of them that they are in the state of California . The plane with both takes off. Joan is sad when she suddenly sees a box with the inscription "California" on it and she suddenly realizes why Steve behaved this way. She is not married. Joan quickly grabs the parachute and leaves the perplexed Allen alone on the plane. In the meantime Joan's father has arrived. The old man is amused that his daughter and everyone think they are married, but they are not. Only then does he become aware of the consequences and he says that he must save his daughter immediately. Suddenly he hears Joan's voice from afar. She's in a cactus again! Steve rushes to her, she falls happily around his neck and he hugs her very tightly.
Background notes
The film was shot in January / February 1941 in Death Valley National Park in California in the USA and in the Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank .
The film had its premiere in the USA on July 12, 1941. In the Federal Republic of Germany it was shown for the first time on November 22, 1977 on television. However, in the German language version, Max Steiner's well-thought-out film music [for example when Cagney Davis was released from cactus spines] was removed and replaced by a fashion sound product that did not musically reflect and / or clarify the scene in question, but merely the slam character of the film overemphasized and thus considerably weakens it.
Bette Davis herself never thought much of the film, although the result "was much more entertaining" than she had saved in her memory. This comedy was James Cagey's last film to hit theaters in 1941, which, according to biographer Andrew Bergman, "should have done without."
In the German version of this film, Bette Davis will be dubbed by Evelyn Gressmann .
reception
Reviews
“James Cagney and Bette Davis, as the main characters in this spirited love comedy by William Keighley (…), play a humorous duel in which the battle of the sexes is fought with all tricks. The script was provided by "Casablanca" authors Julius J. and Philip G. Epstein, and Cagey's brother William acted as producer. In addition, he was the manager of the Hollywood star. "
Cinema thinks that Davis and Cagney's emergency landing in the Nevada desert is "the prelude to a spirited gender and class struggle with lots of puns".
“An entertaining comedy in which James Cagney (…) and Bette Davis (…) have punchy verbal battles before they finally have to admit that they decided the script for each other. In retrospect, Davis didn't have too much good news to report about the film, which is hardly surprising, as she ends up in cacti time and again as a running gag and has to have Cagney remove her spines. "
"A banal story, but with cleverly interspersed punchlines and an excellent team of actors, the film offers entertaining entertainment."
DVD release
This film has been available on DVD since June 15, 2007, published by Warner Home Video, playing time 87 minutes.
Web links
- The Bride Came COD in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The bride came cash on delivery from Turner Classic Movies
- Slide show for the film
- The bride came cash on delivery in the German dubbing file
Individual evidence
- ↑ Certificate of release for the bride came cash on delivery . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , May 2007 (PDF; test number: 110 078 DVD).
- ↑ cf. Heyne Filmbibliothek Nr. 32/4 Bette Davis Your Films - Her Life by Jerry Vermilye, Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich, 1988, p. 94
- ↑ cf. Heyne Filmbibliothek Nr. 32/16 James Cagney His Films - His Life by Andrew Bergman, Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich, 1980, p. 114
- ↑ The bride came cash on delivery from prisma.de , accessed on January 16, 2017.
- ↑ cf. The bride came cash on delivery at Cinema.de, accessed on July 8, 2012
- ↑ The bride came cash on delivery from kino.de/kinofilm, accessed on July 8, 2012
- ↑ The bride came cash on delivery. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 16, 2017 .
- ↑ The bride came cash on delivery