Three men on a horse
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Three men on a horse |
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| Country of production | Federal Republic of Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1957 |
| length | 97 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Kurt Meisel |
| script | Gustav Kampendonk |
| production |
Kurt Ulrich for Berolina, Kurt Ulrich Film |
| music | Michael Jary |
| camera | Kurt Hasse |
| cut |
Wolfgang Wehrum , Lilo Schumacher |
| occupation | |
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Three Men on a Horse is a German feature film by Kurt Meisel from 1957. It is based on the play Three Men on a Horse by John Cecil Holm and George Abbott , which had previously been filmed in 1936 by Mervyn LeRoy . Three men on one horse had its premiere on October 3, 1957 in the Stuttgart Palast-Lichtspiele .
action
The somewhat unworldly greeting card poem writer Erwin Tucke and his wife Ulla are celebrating their first wedding anniversary . While Ulla is full of anticipation, Erwin is only informed of the wedding day by his "best friend" Clemens. Clemens actually wanted to marry Ulla and now secretly uses every opportunity to badmouth Erwin to Ulla. Erwin, on the other hand, is haphazard, steals the flowers from a neighbor's balcony in order to give them to Ulla, and makes an appointment with her in the evening in the bar where they both met three years ago.
It occurs to him too late that he actually has no money. He has to give the last 50 D-Marks to Clemens, from whom he had a non-driving car sold, which he is now paying off. Erwin's boss Körber only has large bills in his wallet and cannot make an advance payment, so Erwin finally accepts Secretary Schnack's tip: He goes to a night bar where he is supposed to write a song text for a singer that must not contain an "s" as the lady is lisping.
In the bar it turns out that the singer is none other than Kitty, who is known to Erwin from earlier - so she doesn't want to pay him any money for the lyrics to be written. Erwin sits down anyway, gets drunk slowly and finally reveals to Kitty's half-silky friends Mackie, Freddy and Felix that he likes to bet for himself at horse races and has been right every time. The always clammy crooks test Erwin first in a race in which the predictions are correct. Then they force him to provide a prediction for one of the next races. While Erwin makes the predictions and actually wants to see Ulla, she waits at the agreed meeting point. The former restaurant has now become a jazz bar and in the end it is Clemens who stops by and brings Ulla home. Erwin finally calls her home and pretends to be at work and writing poetry for greeting cards.
He doesn't come home until the next morning. He's drunk and has a lipstick kiss on his cheek. Ulla finds various women's names noted in his notebook. Erwin asserts that these are horse names from races, but Clemens manages to arouse doubts in Ulla.
Erwin actually wants to go to work, but Mackie, Freddy and Felix intercept him. They finally lock him up in the pub so that he can predict further race results for them. Entanglements arise when director Körber appears in the bar and wants to ask his employee to work. Ulla apparently catches Kitty in bed with Erwin. Clemens also drops by, reads a piece of paper with a false prediction by Erwin and bets all the money on this placement. He loses everything and now blames Erwin for it. Ulla again later drops Clemens because he did not admit to her that he knew that the women were actually horse names.
Erwin predicts more races with difficulty. The group of crooks wins more and more money and always gives Erwin ten percent. When Erwin supposedly mispredicts a race, a scramble breaks out and Erwin is knocked out. Since the "wrong" winner is disqualified, Erwin's statement applies again and he wins almost DM 10,000. While he still half dazedly says " whiskey " and means the drink as a refreshment, the crooks take it as the name of the winning horse in the next race , bet all the money and lose everything. The three men get into an argument and finally a big fight begins in the pub. Ulla, who has long since found out all the background to Erwin's strange behavior, comes by to pick up her husband and both finally manage to leave the restaurant unscathed. Erwin was the only one able to save his winnings.
criticism
The mirror found in 1957:
"The stage joke [...] did not get the job done by director Kurt Meisel on Eastman-Color: The punchlines are sparse and laborious, which is not only due to the relocation of the location from Broadway in the late twenties to the German present, but also on that strange conception of the essence of humor, which sees the peak of cheerfulness in a broadly painted mass brawl. "
The film-dienst wrote in 1957: “Unfortunately, the film does not reveal much of the liveliness of its original. [...] When things get a bit livelier now and then, the film immediately slips into flat slapstick , and even the funny solo efforts of some actors cannot save it. Unnecessary ambiguities also affect its value. "
The lexicon of international films published by film-dienst in 1990 called the film a “too loud crook-swank”.
Cinema found: "Bieder German answer to the peppy Mervyn-LeRoy original from 1936. Conclusion: harmless vacillation about money and idiots."
Web links
- Three Men on a Horse in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Three men on a horse at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ New in Germany: Three men on one horse . In: Der Spiegel . No. 44 , 1957, pp. 57 ( online ).
- ↑ Mg .: Three men on a horse . In: film-dienst , No. 43, 1957.
- ↑ Klaus Brüne (Ed.): Lexicon of International Films . Volume 2. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1990, p. 731.
- ↑ See cinema.de