Beloved Brigitte
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Beloved Brigitte |
| Original title | Dear Brigitte |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1965 |
| length | 100 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Henry Koster |
| script |
Hal Kanter , Nunnally Johnson , based on the novel Erasmus with Freckles by John Haase |
| production |
Fred Kohlmar , Henry Koster, for 20th Century Fox |
| music | George Duning |
| camera | Lucien Ballard |
| cut | Marjorie Fowler |
| occupation | |
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Beloved Brigitte is a 1965 American comedy by Henry Koster. It was based on the 1963 novel Erasmus with Freckles by John Haase .
content
Robert Leaf is an absent-minded professor of literature. Any technical development is a horror to him and a potential threat to the humanities. At regular intervals, in protest against the conditions at his institute, he submits his resignation, which he cannot pull through: he is worshiped by his students in his little bay of San Francisco , where he is with his wife, daughter and son Erasmus lives on a houseboat , he is known and loved and, last but not least, he could not afford to suddenly find himself without work.
At the house concerts every evening it soon becomes clear that the eight-year-old Erasmus is completely unmusical. The father turns to painting when bringing up his son, but it quickly becomes apparent that Erasmus is color-blind . And before Robert Leaf could come up with the idea of giving his son dance lessons, it turns out that Erasmus is an absolute math genius. The press pounces on the family, while Robert Leaf wants nothing other than to get this out of character boy back on the right musical-literary path. Erasmus' sister Pandora, just called Penny by everyone, uses the boy's talent and lets him calculate the results of horse bets. And while the daughter is earning her first money, Robert quits his professorship again and does not take it back afterwards. The money is slowly running out and although Robert is horrified when he learns that his little son is also making money through betting, he uses this after initial scruples to set up his own foundation together with the literary scholar Peregrine Upjohn . This should enable poor potential humanities scholars to study.
Still, the father worries: Is his boy normal? Often he appears absent and withdrawn, as if his sudden popularity is troubling him. A psychiatrist takes on Erasmus' and soon finds out that the boy is in love. Erasmus has a crush on Brigitte Bardot and sends her long love letters to France every evening . One day he receives a letter from the actress inviting him to France. Since Erasmus no longer wants to predict horse bets if he is not allowed to visit Brigitte Bardot, Robert agrees and they both fly to France, where they meet Brigitte Bardot and Erasmus even receives a small dog from her.
Back in San Francisco, Erasmus is still so dazed from meeting Brigitte Bardot that he unconsciously names a false winner of the horse race. While Robert is putting all of his fortune into the bet in order to finally stabilize the foundation's fortune with this last bet, Peregrine plans to secretly take the fortune and disappear with his lover. Although Erasmus is sure they have guessed wrong and everyone panics, the horse named by Erasmus wins. Peregrine is stopped by tax investigators while trying to collect the money at the counter and secretly disappear . The rushed Robert, in turn, can take the money, since the foundation is a tax-free institution. In the end, the Leafs play music with Peregrine on board the houseboat, with Peregrine proving to be even less musical than Erasmus.
production
After the comedies Mr. Hobbs on vacation from 1962 and In Liebe eine 1 from 1963, Beloved Brigitte was James Stewart's third comedy in a short time, which was created under Henry Koster for 20th Century Fox. Like the two previous comedies, Beloved Brigitte revolved around Stewart as a father who has to cope with his children's antics. While the first two films were mainly based on child stars of the time, such as Sandra Dee and Fabian , the French star Brigitte Bardot was signed for beloved Brigitte . However, the actress refused to shoot in the United States, so the film team had to travel to Paris with her for the short sequence .
The world premiere took place on January 8, 1965. The film opened in West Germany on April 23, 1965.
criticism
The Lexicon of International Films described Beloved Brigitte as an "undemanding and good-natured US family comedy", while other critics saw the film as an "embarrassingly harmless ... and 'refreshing ...' comedy ...". Among other things, it was criticized that "here, too, one does not break away from the influence of the family comedies Fred MacMurray by Walt Disney from the fifties ..."
Web links
- Dear Brigitte in the Internet Movie Database (English)