Yolk beard
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Yolk beard |
| Original title | Yellowbeard |
| Country of production | Great Britain |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1983 |
| length | 96 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Mel Damski |
| script |
Graham Chapman Peter Cook Bernard McKenna |
| production |
Carter DeHaven John Daly |
| music | John Morris |
| camera | Gerry Fisher |
| cut | William H. Reynolds |
| occupation | |
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Yellowbeard (Original title: Yellow Beard ) is a British comedy - pirate movie by Mel Damski . With Graham Chapman in the title role and Eric Idle and John Cleese in supporting roles, three of the six former members of the comedy group Monty Python star . The comedian duo Cheech and Chong as well as Marty Feldman can be seen in other roles .
action
The pirate Dotterbart is sentenced to prison for tax evasion . Since he buried a pot of gold on a remote island before his imprisonment and did not reveal its coordinates even under torture, the Royal Navy has increased his prison sentence to 140 years in the hope that he would break out and go in search of his treasure .
After learning of the increase in his sentence, Dotterbart actually breaks out and is henceforth pursued by the Royal Navy. His son Dan, who is not a pirate, but an intellectual gardener, helps him in his search for the treasure. Together with his old crew, he kidnaps a ship and finally reaches Treasure Island. There he kills El Nebuloso and Dan kills Mr. Moon, Dotterbart's former mate, who betrayed him. They finally find the treasure using a card that Dan had tattooed on his scalp as a child by his mother before she destroyed the original card. Dan Dotterbart accidentally stabs it at the site and the treasure ends up in the hands of the royal fleet.
When the Navy ship returns to England with the treasure, it is captured by Dotterbart and his crew - his injury was not fatal. Dotterbart abandons the Royal Navy crew on the high seas and takes over the ship.
backgrounds
- In addition to an already published video cassette entitled Monty Python on the High Seas , the DVD entitled Dotterbart has been available in Germany since August 8, 2006 . This was supplemented by some (not synchronized) scenes.
- John Cleese later admitted that he only appeared in the film to do Graham Chapman a favor. In fact, he thought the script was the worst he had ever read.
- Marty Feldman died of heart failure in a hotel in Mexico City while filming .
- The bounty built in 1961 for the film Mutiny on the Bounty was used for all three ships in the film .
Reviews
"Sarcastic-macabre, partly scary pirate film parody."
"Despite the star cast (including Eric Idle, Cheech and Chong, David Bowie) the parody remains pale."
Web links
- Dotterbart in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Dotterbart at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Dotterbart in the online film database
- Dotterbart in the German dubbing file
Individual evidence
- ↑ Interesting facts about "Yellowbeard" ( Memento of the original from February 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Yolk beard. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed November 27, 2017 .
- ↑ Dotterbart on cinema.de
