Women for Golden Hill
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Women for Golden Hill |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1938 |
| length | 92 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Erich Waschneck |
| script |
Hans Bertram (also idea) Georg Hurdalek Wolf Neumeister |
| production | Hermann Grund |
| music | Werner Eisbrenner |
| camera | Werner Krien |
| cut | Erich Kobler |
| occupation | |
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Women for Golden Hill is a German adventure film from 1938 by Erich Waschneck, set in the Australian outback . Kirsten Heiberg plays her first German leading role here. At her side Viktor Staal , Karl Martell and the screen debutante Elfie Mayerhofer can be seen in other leading roles.
action
In the deserted desert area of Australia, the outback. Here, in this godforsaken place in the middle of nowhere, a number of adventurous men toil under the broiling sun and hope as gold prospectors one day to dig a nugget out of the desert sand. The hard work leads to the fact that someone in the saloon suggests, out of a drinking mood, to recruit women so that the “whole guys” in the desert don't feel so lonely. The letter with the signatures of 13 people willing to marry goes out and reaches a newspaper in distant Sydney via the secretary of the grocer Barryman, which then publishes a corresponding advertisement. Women who are willing to marry are quickly found who are ready to embark on the adventure of traveling to men unknown to them in order to live with them. Mr. Barryman seeks state support for this wives procurement company, which he finally gets in Sydney, on one condition: the willing women must be married in advance to the corresponding men in the outback in a kind of distance marriage. And so it happens.
Barryman gets eleven women together, so he is very surprised that of all people, the coveted and celebrated revue singer Violet Arlen also signs. She's tired of the men who go to her show night after night. The last to sign is Barryman's own secretary Alice Bedford. In the gold prospecting settlement of Golden Hill, the men are waiting longingly and excitedly for the arrival of the women. The rough guys are perplexed when the mayor announces that the men have already been legally married to a woman by the government in Sydney based on their signatures by means of distance weddings, without any man having seen his wife beforehand. At this moment, Douglas Rogers and Stanley "Stan" Tottenham are very happy that they are the only ones who have not signed the request to procure women willing to marry. Nevertheless, Violet is left for the two of them, and should puzzle over them, as the mayor demands. But they find this dishonorable and promise Violet to remain completely gentlemen. They share a hut with the seductive revue singer, who actually doesn't want to get married, but has come here to make money herself by finding gold. It happens as it has to: Both men begin to fall in love with Violet, a conflict seems inevitable. Finally Stanley puts two revolvers on the table and challenges Douglas to settle the matter between the two like "whole men" in a duel. At first he refuses, but then there is a violent exchange of fire in the hut of the two men, in which Douglas is seriously wounded by Stan.
According to the unwritten law that a prospector will be expelled from camp if he injures another, Stan has to leave Golden Hill. Violet is appalled by this development and nurses Douglas back to health afterwards. But she wants to follow Stanley, who has returned to Sydney, because she is expecting a child from him. Douglas respects Violet's decision and even promises to accompany her to Sydney and find Stanley together. However, a severe sandstorm that sweeps across Golden Hill prevents the plan from being implemented, and all residents must now be accommodated in the undamaged saloon. This also welds Violet and Douglas together, who meanwhile develop feelings for each other. Soon everyone's nerves are on edge because the water supplies are gradually running out. Meanwhile, in distant Sydney, Stanley has heard of the disaster that swept over Golden Hill. He desperately wants to help, and since he has found accommodation as a fitter with an air unit, he grabs a plane and circles over Golden Hill. Composed of human bodies, Stanley can recognize the word "water". He transmits this to the control center by radio, then he runs into problems with the plane, since drifting sand gets into the engine and crashes in the desert. Douglas rushes to his dying friend, who asks him “Take care of Violet!” A little later, six rescue planes parachute bags of water over Golden Hill, which save the dying of thirst.
Production notes
Filming of women for Golden Hill began in late July 1938 and ended in the fall of that year. Was shot u. a. in the Harz Mountains and in East Prussia , where the sand dunes of the Curonian Spit served as the Australian outback. “No Australian bush could have looked more real on screen. In the beautiful, small fishing village of Pillkoppen the fishermen there 'worked' in front of the camera as extras on the 'Claim', the brook of the rough gold diggers. ”The film premiered on December 30, 1938 in Frankfurt am Main. The Berlin premiere was on January 5, 1939 in the Tauentzienpalast .
Fanal film producer Hermann Grund also took over the production management. The film constructions come from Gustav A. Knauer and Alexander Mügge. Willy Dehmel and Günter Neumann wrote the lyrics for Werner Eisbrenner's compositions. Film editor Erich Kobler also served Erich Waschneck as assistant director.
criticism
The film service ruled: “A melodramatic adventure film with a tangle tangle and a natural disaster; a homemade, clumsy German western replacement. "
Individual evidence
- ^ Boguslaw Drewniak: The German Film 1938-1945 . A complete overview. Düsseldorf 1987, p. 228 f.
- ↑ Women for Golden Hill. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 26, 2019 .
See also
Web links
- Women for Golden Hill in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Women for Golden Hill at filmportal.de