The Merry Vagabonds (1963)
| Movie | |
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| German title | The girls like that |
| Original title | The funny vagabonds |
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| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1963 |
| length | 91 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Kurt Nachmann |
| script | Kurt Nachmann, Jürgen von Alten |
| production |
Wiener Stadthalle ( Adolf Eder ) |
| music | Werner Scharfenberger |
| camera | Werner M. Lenz |
| cut | Paula Dvorak |
| occupation | |
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The Funny Vagabonds is an Austrian hit film by Kurt Nachmann from 1963 . In Germany it ran under the title Girls like that .
action
The American millionaire son Peter Monk, called Pitt, is not particularly interested in money. He does not take gambling debts tragically, but reacts sensitively when a casino owner accuses him of only thinking superficially because he has his father's money as security. Pitt spontaneously bets him to come from Monte Carlo to Sankt Georgenberg in Carinthia in a week without money , where a hotel will be opened. Pitt's gambling debts, which are either waived or doubled, are considered wagers. Pitt is assigned a confidante of his father, Peter Werner, to the side. Together they set off by car.
The gossip reporter Sybilla was also present at the bet, and now she notifies the owner of the Petitpierre girls' pension, Viktoria, that she cannot accompany the girls on a North Sea voyage because she wants to follow the story of Pitt. The girls in turn hear that a millionaire's son wants to travel incognito to Sankt Georgenberg. They plan to intercept him on the trip, but at least one of them should marry a millionaire. Two crooks who have just broken into their boarding school also want to get the millionaire's son. The girls divert the North Sea bus to Italy and meet the crooks who picked up the American Jerry Blackwell on the way, whom they believe to be Pitt. They travel with him first to Count Siebenthal and then on to Sankt Georgenberg, where they arrive on the day the hotel opens.
Meanwhile, Pitt is out with Peter. The car goes on strike after a while and so they stop at a rest area after walking. For a pharmaceutical company, Peter tests pills that impart different emotional properties depending on their color. He has just taken the pill that makes you seductive when racing driver Maltazzi and his wife arrive at the rest area. While Peter is ensnaring Maltazzi's wife, Pitt repairs his car and continues a race with him, which he wins. In the meantime, Peter met young Britta at the rest stop, who lives in the Petitpierre boarding school, but has not gone to Italy with the other girls. She takes Peter and later Pitt with her. Britta falls in love with Peter, who is still very charming due to the effect of the pill. When he takes a new pill that makes him honest and rational, Britta reacts irritated. She leaves the two men at a gas station and drives away. Pitt forgot his watch in the car. Britta sees from the engraving that she has been dealing with the millionaire's son the whole time - but she thinks Peter is Pitt - and drives back to the gas station. But Peter and Pitt have already said goodbye to the gas station employee Helga.
Peter, Pitt and Helga go to Hellbrunn , where Peter takes a pill that causes hallucinations. So he notices that Britta comes to him and explains to him that she is expecting them all in Salzburg, but when he wakes up he believes that everything was just a dream. Britta waits in vain in Salzburg and drives to Sankt Georgenberg alone. Peter, Pitt and Helga stop in a bar and hire themselves out as staff. They try to use a charm pill to get the landlady to lend them their jeep, but the mayor ensures that all three are locked up in the aircraft hangar as alleged thieves. Here the three of them can prepare an airplane for take-off and take off after taking a mutpill.
The couples come together in Sankt Georgenberg. Jerry is exposed as a fake Peter, but has found one of the girls in Lona who loves him too. According to his father's will, Pitt is to be married to the Brazilian Mina, who falls in love with Count Siebenthal. Pitt, Peter and Helga arrive at the hotel to the minute when Britta learns Peter's true identity, but still takes him as a friend. At the end of the day, Father Monk agrees to a relationship between Helga and Pitt, who in turn gets his first real job as a racing car designer from Maltazzi.
production
Screenwriter Kurt Nachmann was persuaded to make his directorial debut by Karl Spiehs , who acted as production manager in this film . Against the contemporary trend of incorporating current hits in hit films, Nachmann commissioned the composer Werner Scharfenberger to write completely new songs for his film.
The funny vagabonds was filmed in Atelier Sievering as well as in Salzburg and at Hellbrunn Palace . The film constructions came from Wolf Witzemann . For the choreography was Gene Reed responsible. Gerdago created the costumes . Production manager was Karl Spiehs . The film was released in Austrian cinemas on January 18, 1963 and in German cinemas on January 24, 1963.
Numerous hits are sung in the film:
- Peter Kraus: Western rose
- Peter Kraus: Caravan
- Peter Kraus: Sunny Boy
- Mina: Fiesta Brasiliana
- Lil Babs: Holl-Dolly-Day
- Gus Backus (also with Paul Hörbiger): The moonlight on the Danube
- Gus Backus, Paul Hörbiger, Lil Babs and Peter Kraus: The little miracle of great happiness
- Peter Kraus and Gus Backus: The girls like that
- Johnny Dorelli: Guitarra di Napoli
- Gus Backus: Black Rose Rosemarie
- Peter Kraus: The man in the moon
criticism
The film service briefly summarized the film as “mix-ups, follies, pop music churning out” and called it “guaranteed undemanding teenage entertainment of the early 60s”.
Web links
- The funny vagabond in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The funny vagabonds at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Roman Schliesser: The super nose. Karls Spiehs and his films , Verlag Carl Ueberreuter, Vienna 2006, p. 20, p. 70
- ↑ The merry vagabonds. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .