The bachelorette party

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Movie
German title The bachelorette party
Original title The Bachelor Party
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1957
length 90 minutes
Age rating JMK from 16
Rod
Director Delbert man
script Paddy Chayefsky
production Harold Hecht
music Paul Mertz
Alex North
camera Joseph LaShelle
cut William B. Murphy
occupation

The Bachelor Party is a 1957 American film directed by Delbert Mann based on a model by Paddy Chayefsky .

action

The young accountant Charlie Samson is eager to make something of his life. He attends evening school to continue his education and, as a result, to move up the corporate ladder. One day he learns from his wife Helen that she is expecting a child. Charlie and Helen live a frugal life and cannot afford to make big leaps. Now that Helen is pregnant, both of them will have to restrict themselves even more. And so Charlie is in a rather depressed mood when he leaves for his colleague Arnold Craig's bachelorette party one evening. Craig wants to get married the next day, and Charlie is supposed to be his best man.

The five men sit together with plenty of alcohol and rant about past times, about experiences in the war, and try to show each other how far they have made it in life and what great, successful and whole guys they are. But the life lies served up crumble all too quickly. None of the middle-aged men are really happy with their lives, and so the evening ends in a mess. Charlie wants to draw conclusions from the knowledge gained and break out of his previous life.

The men decide to go on a pub crawl afterwards, where Charlie hooks up with a girl who is so completely different from his Helen. He is not averse to an affair with this fascinating existentialist. The move to the houses ultimately changed the lives of all five colleagues. Arnold, the drunken husband-to-be, begins to doubt his decision to marry the following day with every glass of alcohol. Eddie, his friend who provokes his independence but is in reality lonely, flirts both uninhibitedly and hopelessly, even with unattractive women. For Charlie himself, this night is a night of profound knowledge. He begins to relativize the doubts and frustration of the last evening and realizes that his life so far was not as bad as he thought. And now he knows for sure that he loves his wife. The child he and Helen are expecting will give new meaning to his life.

Production notes

The bachelorette party premiered on April 10, 1957. In Germany, the film ran in the same year.

The exterior shots were taken in New York City . The film construction is by Ted Haworth , the equipment by Edward G. Boyle . Mary Grant designed the costumes. Chayefsky also took on the production of the film.

Carolyn Jones received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress in 1958 for her performance as Charlie Samson's bar acquaintance .

criticism

Reclam's film guide wrote of The Bachelor Party : “Although Mann and Chayefsky had great success for their film Marty in Hollywood, they returned to television, where they jointly released the television game The bachelor party ; and again Hollywood signed both of them for a theatrical version of the game. The bachelor party is harder and more realistic than Marty . You see men who are strained by the stress of professional life, who earn too little money, who are sick and used up early. The film shows how they want to deceive themselves and how the hangover makes them clairvoyant. "

The lexicon of international films writes: "Brilliantly staged and played psychological and socially critical study."

Kay Wenigers The film's great personal dictionary called the film a "keenly observing [...] social study".

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reclams Filmführer, by Dieter Krusche, collaboration: Jürgen Labenski. P. 219. Stuttgart 1973.
  2. ^ Klaus Brüne (Red.): Lexikon des Internationale Films, Volume 4, S. 1922. Reinbek near Hamburg 1987
  3. ↑ The bachelorette party. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed July 3, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  4. ↑ Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 5: L - N. Rudolf Lettinger - Lloyd Nolan. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 251.

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