GI honeymoon

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Movie
Original title GI honeymoon
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1945
length 70 minutes
Rod
Director Phil Karlson (under the name Phil Karlstein)
script Richard Weil,
Tim Ryan (additional dialogues)
production Lindsley Parsons for Monogram Pictures
music Edward J. Kay
camera Harry Neumann
cut William Austin
occupation

GI Honeymoon is an American comedy film directed by Phil Karlson (shown here as Phil Karlstein) from 1945. Gale Storm and Peter Cookson play Ann and Robert Gordon, whose problems begin on their wedding night when Robert is called up for security duty . The movie poster had the headline at the time: "How can a GI make love ... if there is no privacy in the army!" Another movie poster advertised with the words: "Guaranteed the wildest, funniest, most loving romance that lasts until it is fulfilled!"

The script is based on a story by AJ Rubien, Robert Chapin and Marion Page Johnson.

action

Robert "Bob" Gordon served his country as GI during World War II . The day he marries his girlfriend Ann Barton, he receives a telegram to report to his military base in Nevada immediately on duty in an emergency. So the wedding ceremony comes to a hasty end, as Robert still has to catch the train that will take him to Nevada. Ann follows the advice of her aunt Lavinia Thorndyke to accompany Bob, in the hope that there will be an opportunity on the train to be undisturbed with her newlywed husband. Your attempt to secure a sleeping compartment, however, fails. When she meets Ace Renaldo, who is flirting heavily with her, she hopes to get him to cede his compartment to her by responding to his attempts at flirting and then telling him that she will report him for harassment if he does not relinquish his compartment to her. After her trick has worked, she waits longingly for her husband with dinner and champagne and in a new negligee. As soon as he has arrived, the romantic mood of the Gordons is interrupted, as Robert has been assigned to officer service for the rest of the trip.

After the train arrives in Faber, Nevada, where Robert is stationed in Fort Dixon, Ann discovers that there is a great housing shortage there. The local hotel also has no rooms left. In town, Ann unexpectedly meets Ace Renaldo again, the man from the train who runs an illegal gambling den in town together with his good-natured assistant Horace P. Malloy, better known as "Blubber". Since the duo got a tip that the police know about their undertaking and are planning to dig out the illegal arcade, both of them suddenly transform it into an apartment that they rent to Ann. Renaldo sees this as a chance to settle his outstanding bill with Ann. Another attempt by the couple to consummate the marriage physically also fails, as Robert is so exhausted that he falls asleep because he has just walked 60 km.

Just as Ann Roberts has asked fellow officers for a cocktail party, Renaldo spreads the news that the gambling den is open to business again and passes the news of the invitation to the police. It all ends in disaster and, in the end, Robert fears that Ann has been unfaithful to him, as the wives of the other military men suggest that she is pregnant and Ann bursts into tears at this mess. Col. Hammerhead Smith, who has since learned of the house where strange things are going on, goes there and discovers his soldiers, whom he has the military police take away. Bob is arrested and Ann is heartbroken once more. But then her aunt Lavinia, who was once a relationship with Smith, suddenly shows up and reminds him of unauthorized incidents during the First World War and convinces him that Bob was not guilty of anything, so he is released and given 48 hours' leave.

As the now reunited couple is kissing, they hear a radio announcement that tells Bob to go back to the camp. Ann faints from disappointment and Bob turns to the audience and asks for a glass of water.

production

Production notes

Production of the film began on September 22, 1944 and ended in the first half of October.

Karlson, who disliked his first film as a director for Monogram and thought it was the worst film he had ever made, was sure with GI Honeymoon that the film could be a hit, and it turned out to be true.

Gale Storm's marriage to Lee Bonnell in 1941 has something in common with the film plot in that Bonnell had also enlisted in the military in August 1941, just a short time before he and Gale were married. Director Phil Karstein, who later chose the name Karlson as his professional name, directed three films with Gale Storm.

Shomen's Trade Review reported in March 1946 that a theater manager in Miami who was promoting the film by hiring two young women who called local residents posed as Gale Storm, said they were getting married and requested a visit to the Rosetta Theater , Password GI Honeymonn , would ask.

publication

The film premiered in Brooklyn in March 1945 . The mass start was on April 6, 1945. It was released in London, United Kingdom on August 17, 1945, and then generally opened in English cinemas on August 20, 1945. In Germany the film, which was not dubbed, was not released.

reception

criticism

In a review by Variety , the film is described as a "pretty enjoyable comedy" that skilfully bypasses frivolous risks. In Shlmen's Trade Review by the spring of 1945 it was said to be the script in his excellence surprising and the film is a great moment for Gale Storm. Miss Storm is ready for the big time: She is beautiful, wear good clothes and get everything out of her dialogue.

Columnist Erskine Johnson found in October 1945 that Storm was cast in the lead roles in almost all of her films, as well as in one of the funniest comedies of the season with an accomplished comedienne.

The National League of Decency said the film not only shows Gale's beauty and charm as a gorgeous young bride, but also gives her the opportunity to show off the comedic skills that made her a top television star in the 1950s.

Award

Edward J. Kay was in 1946 in the category "Best Original Score" (Drama / Comedy) for an Oscar nomination, but which of Miklós Rózsa and the literary adaptation Spellbound went.

An Oscar nomination for Kay's musical score earned producing company Monogram Pictures one of its rare Oscar nominations.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ GI Honeymoon (1945) see page allemovie.com (English, including film poster)
  2. ↑ GI Honeymoon see image film poster at mpb.auction.
  3. ↑ GI Honeymoon .Produktionsdaten in the catalog of the American Film Institute
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g David C. Tucker: Gale Storm: A Biography and Cereer Record , Mc Farland & Company, Inc., Jefferson, North Carolina. Pp. 81-83, ISBN 978-1-4766-7177-2 .
  5. ↑ Phil Karlson. For an interview with Todd McCarthy and Richard Thompson see page cine-resort.blogspot.com (English).