A man doesn't always have to be beautiful

Movie
Original title	A man doesn't always have to be beautiful
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1956
length	84 minutes
Rod
Director	Hans Quest
script	Curth Flatow , Eckart Hachfeld
production	Artur Brauner
music	Heinz Gietz
camera	Herbert Körner
cut	Wolfgang Wehrum
occupation
Peter Alexander : Peter Moll Inge Egger : Liesel Meixner Georg Thomalla : Paul Späth Brigitte Grothum : Lore Susi Nicoletti : Maria Carlotti Christiane Maybach : Otti Springfeldt Wolfgang Neuss : Knackerkarl Wolfgang Müller : Catcherfranz Hans Putz : Pocket Cancer Ursula Herking : Knattercolt Edith Hancke : Secretary Fraulein Zimmermann Inge Meysel : Frieda Hebe Simone Roy : Simone Horst Keitel : Lover Hans Schwarz : The heavy Gustav Stanislav Ledinek : Szupanek Franz Otto Krüger : Michael Schröder Walter Bluhm : theater director Erich Fiedler : husband in the play Kurt Waitzmann : Defender Hellmut Grube Wolfgang Eichberger Rolf Kralovitz : Stage manager Wolf Martini : Chairman of the court Herbert Weißbach : Commissioner

A man doesn't always have to be beautiful is a German film by director Hans Quest from 1956 .

action

Peter Moll, leader of a jazz band and singer, is said to have stolen the melody for his hit song A Man Doesn't Always Have to Be Beautiful from the composer Michael Schröder. Because he loses his nerve during the court hearing in which he is sentenced to damages as a plagiarist , he has to spend a day in prison. There he learns from the heavy Gustav that after a burglary he sewed a valuable diamond into a black brassiere and hid it in Mrs. Hebe's corset shop.

Peter sees this as the solution to his financial problems and, together with his friend Paul, goes in search of the precious item of laundry. But five black brassieres have now been sold and they have learned that not every woman likes to rummage through her lingerie. In addition, three professional thugs take part in the hunt for diamonds in bra. Finally the stone seems to be lost for good, but Peter and Paul can make friends with the two young women Lore and Liesel.

In the end, by a happy coincidence, they still find the long-sought diamond and can reap a reward. The composer Schröder also confesses, not entirely voluntarily, that he stole the melody and that Peter Moll is the author of the hit.

Songs

• A man doesn't always have to be beautiful (Peter Alexander)
• Small house on the Sierra Nevada (Peter Alexander)

Trivia

When the band sells their furniture to be able to pay the bills, they mention on a bridge that they were the last to sell The Last Bridge .

Reviews

• Filmblätter : "The best thing about the film is its speed: You don't get bored with any scene and despite some repetitions in the ideas you have to laugh at the Rififi slapstick."

• Lexicon of the international film : "Unimaginative, greasy vacillation between gossip and clutter."

Web links

• A man need not always be beautiful in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• A man doesn't always have to be beautiful at filmportal.de (with photo gallery)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Manfred Hobsch: love, dance and 1000 hit films. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 1998, p. 130.
2. ↑ A man doesn't always have to be beautiful. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed February 8, 2017 .