One night in Casablanca
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | One night in Casablanca |
| Original title | A night in Casablanca |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1946 |
| length | 85 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Archie Mayo |
| script | Joseph Fields , Roland Kibbee , Frank Tashlin |
| production | David L. Loew |
| music | Werner Janssen |
| camera | James Van Trees |
| cut | Gregg G. Tallas |
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A Night in Casablanca (original title: A Night in Casablanca ) was the twelfth film with the Marx Brothers Groucho, Chico and Harpo Marx. It was shot and published in 1946.
action
During the Second World War, the Nazis deposited valuable works of art on a secret mezzanine floor of the hotel. Count Pfefferman alias Heinrich Stubel, his assistant Kurt and his lover Beatrice Rheiner are now trying to get them out of the country. To this end, they murder the hotel's managers in the hope that Count Pfefferman will be appointed as manager. Unfortunately, however, Ronald Hühnerpuster (in the original: Kornblow) is hired as manager. And now they're trying to get him out of the way too. Finally, together with Rusty and Corbaccio and with the help of Pierre Delmar and Emile, he finds out where the works of art are hidden in the hotel. When they are about to be flown out of the country, they can finally save them and bring the villains under lock and key.
Remarks
The film is a parody of the film Casablanca with Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman from 1942. The Warner Brothers group initially tried to prevent the film from being given the title; this resulted in an interesting correspondence between Groucho and Warner Bros.
Reviews
- "(...) the diffuse story, which does not leave the cult film" Casablanca "undamaged, gives the brothers' imagination a lot of leeway." (Rating: 3 stars = very good) - Adolf Heinzlmeier and Berndt Schulz in the lexicon "Films on TV" ( extended new edition). Rasch and Röhring, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-89136-392-3 , p. 596
- “The comedian trio and director Archie L. Mayo has succeeded in creating one of those turbulent comedies whose countless gags you want to tell immediately - but they cannot be told because even the dialog jokes are inextricably linked with the three characters, with their gestures and with their experiences; they move at such a frenzied pace that it becomes clear: they fear the moment of calm in which they would have to come to their senses. ” film-dienst 20/1977
literature
- Joseph Fields, Roland Kibbee, Frank Tashlin , Georg Seeßlen : The Marx Brothers: A Night in Casablanca · A Night in Casablanca. The original film text and the German script adaptation . Two thousand and one, Frankfurt am Main 1990
Individual evidence
Web links
- A Night in Casablanca in the Internet Movie Database (English)