Three on a couch
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Three on a couch |
| Original title | Three on a couch |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1966 |
| length | 109 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jerry Lewis |
| script |
Bob Ross Samuel A. Taylor |
| production | Jerry Lewis Joe E. Stable |
| music | Louis Brown |
| camera | W. Wallace Kelley |
| cut | Russel Wiles |
| occupation | |
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Three on a Couch (Original title: Three on a Couch ) is an American film directed by Jerry Lewis from 1965. The screenplay was written by Bob Ross and Samuel A. Taylor . The lead roles are starring Jerry Lewis, Janet Leigh and Mary Ann Mobley . The film was first released in the US in March 1966, and in the Federal Republic of Germany on September 22 of that year.
action
Christopher Pride wins 50,000 francs at an art exhibition in Los Angeles and the contract to decorate a French government building with murals. Now the painter and graphic artist can finally get married and start his honeymoon in Paris, he thinks. But his fiancée, the psychiatrist Dr. Elizabeth Acord says she cannot abandon her three most important patients in their current condition. These are young girls with a male complex due to negative love experiences.
But it is precisely this that will help to realize the fiancé's plan. His friend Ben has the idea that Christopher should approach women according to the current habits of women and try to heal them from the pathological aversion to the male sex by appearing to them as the corresponding idol of their subconscious. Said and done. And so he fascinates one as a cowboy (because she is so enthusiastic about Wild West films), the other as an athlete (because she so eagerly pays homage to physical exercise) and the third as a naturalist (because she is so interested in insects). He succeeds, which is called into question when his bride begins to suspect something. At the farewell party, the three of them unintentionally appear together - naturally without suspecting the connections - and put the two conspirators in dire straits; and when we say goodbye at the steamer, where everyone shows up again, the whole story finally bursts. But now it is the three caregivers who give their supervisor consolation and try to cure the neurosis that suddenly emerges. Which then - luckily - also succeeds.
Reviews
The Protestant film observer judged: “This real Jerry Lewis is one of the best examples in the long chain of his kind: The plot is based on an original idea, and it is consistently unwound with exposure, execution and a furious finale. […] Nice, grotesque fun (from 14). ”The lexicon of international film , on the other hand, does not have such a good opinion of film. It drew the following conclusion: "Little joke, a lot of convulsive merriment, some show jokes: Jerry Lewis was more inventive."
Web links
- Three on a couch in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Pictures of the film on cinema.de
- Some scenes from the film on youtube
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Evangelischer Filmbeobachter , Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 396/1966, pp. 710–711.
- ↑ Lexikon des Internationale Films , rororo-Taschenbuch No. 6322 (1988), p. 722.