Three times to Mexico
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Three times to Mexico |
| Original title | Marriage on the Rocks |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1965 |
| length | 109 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jack Donohue |
| script | Cy Howard |
| production | William H. Daniels |
| music | Nelson Riddle |
| camera | William H. Daniels |
| cut | Sam O'Steen |
| occupation | |
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Three times to Mexico is the title of an American comedy distributed by WB in 1965. It is a Sinatra Enterprise AC production in Technicolor and Panavision .
action
Dan Edwards runs an advertising agency, is married to Valerie and has two children: an 18-year-old daughter named Tracy and David, the cheeky youngest member of the family. Another member of the extended family is Ernie Brewer, who enjoys drinking, Dan's business partner and Valerie's former friend. The marriage of the two has become a habit. Valerie would like to get a divorce because her husband has taken too little care of her in recent years. Good friends suggest a second honeymoon to Mexico, but that is where the tumultuous confusion begins.
Valerie is satisfied because her godly husband finally has time for her again, but there is another argument. An overzealous stranger thinks he has to help and suddenly the couple is divorced - also because of a lack of knowledge of the Mexican language. That is not right for the two of them either. They want to restore the old state immediately. But before that, Dan urgently needs to go home again in order to conduct negotiations with an important client that cannot be postponed. The wedding preparations should already start, because he wants to be back the day after next. But Dan has longer to do than he thought and sends Ernie as a mediator with the assignment to postpone the wedding date and to comfort Valerie in the meantime.
But now everything is going wrong. This time, the linguistic deficits already mentioned ensure that Valerie and Ernie are suddenly married to each other. Of course, he wants to separate from her immediately, but Valerie is on strike. She is a little annoyed, her Dan should now also stew something. The shot backfires: The new bachelor life is now pretty much to Dan's taste, as he has always secretly envied Ernie for this reason over the past few years. From then on he enjoys freedom and no longer takes care of his wife and children. At last fate has the solution. As a result of the second honeymoon, Valerie is pregnant and Dan becomes a father again. According to the Hollywood Codex of the time, that means: marriage. So now a third trip to Mexico has to settle the formalities.
background
Twelve years before this film, Deborah Kerr and Frank Sinatra were already in front of the camera in Damned for Eternity . The film was Sinatra's comeback after a long artistic break. Frank Sinatra received an Oscar for his portrayal in Forever Damned , while the also nominated Deborah Kerr received nothing.
Reviews
"Routine entertainment with entanglements, role changes and reconciliation according to Hollywood standards."
source
- Illustrated Filmbühne No. S 7247, Munich
Web links
- Three times to Mexico in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Three times to Mexico. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 31, 2017 .