Summer Island (1959)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The summer island |
| Original title | A summer place |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1959 |
| length | 131 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Delmer Daves |
| script | Delmer Daves |
| production | Delmer Daves for Warner Brothers |
| music | Max Steiner |
| camera | Harry Stradling Sr. |
| cut | Owen Marks |
| occupation | |
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The Summer Island (OT: A Summer Place ) is an American feature film from 1959. The film is one of the first large-scale productions with embers under the ashes to cover previously taboo subjects such as adultery, divorce, underage pregnancies and domestic violence Put the focus. Percy Faith's orchestral version of Max Steiner's musical theme in the film stayed at the top of the Billboard charts for nine weeks in 1960 .
action
Self-made millionaire Ken Jorgenson is returning to Pine Island on the Maine coast after 20 years, where he was then a lifeguard. He lives with his wife Helen and their daughter Molly in the somewhat shabby hotel of the alcoholic Bart Hunter. Ken and Helen, a frigid, malicious woman, are only connected by their name. They both hate each other wholeheartedly, and the unfortunate Ken falls in love with the equally unhappy wife of Bart Hunter, Sylvia. They both start an affair. Molly Jorgensen and Johnny Hunter fall in love, unnoticed by the adults. Both are caught by Helen while they are kissing. It comes to a scandal and Helen describes her own daughter as a cheap slut. During a sailing trip, Molly and Johnny are caught in a storm and forced to take refuge in a bay overnight. Hardly back, Helen demands that Molly should be examined by a doctor, because after this incident she had very strong doubts whether Molly was still a virgin. Eventually the Jorgensens and the Hunter agree to divorce each other.
Helen manages to get custody of Molly in the divorce process; she sends her daughter to boarding school. Molly still loves Johnny and runs off with him. She gets pregnant. When she confesses everything to her mother on Christmas Day, she hits her so hard that Molly falls backwards into the set up Christmas tree and kicks her with her. In the end, Molly and Johnny get married. Ken and Sylvia also find happiness.
background
Sloan Wilson's novel A Summer Place became a best-seller in 1958 thanks to its outspoken portrayal of sex, domestic violence, teenage pregnancy, and other taboo subjects. The financial and artistic success of the film adaptation of Grace Metalious bestseller The People of Peyton Place , which also addressed previously taboo areas of human coexistence under the title Embers under the Ashes , prompted the Warner Brothers studio to acquire the film rights and an extensive film adaptation in production to give. Natalie Wood and Tab Hunter were scheduled to star in the two unhappily in love teenagers Molly and Johnny, whose happiness is almost destroyed by their parents' intrigues . In the end, Sandra Dee and Troy Donahue took over the roles. The exterior shots were filmed in Monterey . The Mrs. Clinton Walker House in Carmel-by-the-Sea , which Frank Lloyd Wright designed in 1948, was used for some recordings .
Income of $ 4,700,000 in the United States alone made Summer Island one of the most financially successful films of the year.
synchronization
The dubbed version was created for the German cinema premiere in 1960.
| role | actor | German Dubbing voice |
|---|---|---|
| Sylvia Hunter | Dorothy McGuire | Tilly Lauenstein |
| Ken Jorgenson | Richard Egan | Heinz Engelmann |
| Molly Jorgenson | Sandra Dee | Marianne Lutz |
| Bart Hunter | Arthur Kennedy | Paul Edwin Roth |
criticism
The opinions of the critics differed widely.
The New York Times condemned the film as immoral, citing Summer Island :
“One of the most exhausting and garish sexually charged films in recent years. With boring directness in expression and representation that few people are likely to accept as realism for adults, this noisy work tells the quarrels and interactions of two clans on an island in New England. The film depicts - trumpeting better - how two nice young teenagers are almost destroyed by the machinations of the four adults best known as delinquents. All of this leaves a bad aftertaste. "
Variety pointed out another aspect:
"[The movie] makes the most of Hollywood's newfound freedom to describe the extensive vocabulary of sex."
The Hollywood Reporter found the plot neatly and tastefully brought to the screen:
"It's a fascinating study of sex and how it affects all of our lives, and no adult will find anything cheap or suggestive in it."
Web links
- The summer island in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- A Summer Place at Turner Classic Movies (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ A Summer Place (1959) - Notes. In: Turner Classic Movies . Retrieved October 24, 2019 .
- ↑ The summer island. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on October 24, 2019 .
- ^ One of the most laboriously and garishly sex-scented movies in years. With a tedious bluntness of speech and imagery that few people should accept as adult realism, this raucously sensual drama spells out the clashes and intertwinings of two clans on a New England island. It tells - trumpets, is better - how two nice adolescents are almost crushed by four persons best described as delinquent adults. The whole thing leaves a rancid taste.
- ↑ [I] t makes the most of Hollywood's newly-discovered freedom to display the voluminous vocabulary of sex.
- ↑ It is an absorbing study of sex as it affects most of our lives, though no civilized person will find in it anything that is cheap or nasty.