Face without a name
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Face without a name |
| Original title | Mister Buddwing |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1966 |
| length | 96 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Delbert man |
| script | Dale Wasserman |
| production |
Douglas Laurence , Delbert Mann |
| music | Kenyon Hopkins |
| camera | Ellsworth Fredericks |
| cut | Fredric Steinkamp |
| occupation | |
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Face Without a Name is an American drama from 1966 , directed by director Delbert Mann based on the novel Buddwing by Evan Hunter .
action
A man wakes up on a bench in Central Park and can't remember anything. He doesn't know anything about his life or his past. The only clue he has is a slip of paper with a phone number that he finds in his pocket. He accidentally dials the wrong number and reaches sleepy Gloria, who thinks he is her drunk husband. He introduces himself to her as Mister Buddwing, a combination of names from a truck with a load of beer and an aircraft pulling away.
Buddwing visits Gloria in her apartment. The woman is affected by his situation, but also finds him likeable. They drink coffee, Gloria lends him some money. Buddwing strolls through the streets. When he sees a young woman, the name Grace occurs to him. The young woman turns out to be a student named Janet. Buddwing now remembers a fellow student, Grace, who was his fiancée.
Buddwing meets the actress Fiddle. In her apartment he listens to music and remembers his own poverty, because of which he had to bury his dream of becoming a composer. He makes the acquaintance of a blonde who is looking for a slim man in a gray suit to accompany him. Buddwing accompanies them to Harlem for a game of dice. During the game, he hears a comment that repeats the shock that obliterated his memory. Now he knows his identity and makes his way to the hospital where his wife is lying. She has attempted suicide after he left her because of her pregnancy.
Reviews
The lexicon of international films described the film as a low-tension, dramatically unsatisfactory psychodrama, which tells its story primarily in lengthy flashbacks.
AH Weiler of the New York Times wrote that New York is not a friendly place for someone with amnesia, but it is just as gloomy as it is for producers with unconvincing scripts.
The evangelical film observer has an overall good opinion of the film : “The film basically wants to steer a new beginning of a broken marriage in a positive way, but with the thought of memory loss it falls under the spell of a cleverly nested flashback technique behind which the inner Deepening clearly recedes. Upscale entertainment for adults. "
Awards
The film received two Academy Award nominations in 1967 , one for best production design (b / w) by George W. Davis , Paul Groesse , Henry Grace and Hugh Hunt and one for best costume design (b / w) by Helen Rose .
background
The film, distributed by MGM , is one of the few US productions that premiered abroad. In Germany it was released on July 15, 1966. In the USA, however, it only started on October 11 of the same year.
Nichelle Nichols can be seen in a small supporting role as a dice player .
Web links
- Face without a name in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Face without a name. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Critique of the New York Times (Eng.)
- ↑ Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 439/1966