Gold from a hot throat

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Movie
German title Gold from a hot throat
Original title Loving you
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1957
length 102 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Hal Kanter
script Herbert Baker ,
Hal Kanter
production Hal B. Wallis
for Paramount
music Walter Scharf
camera Charles Lang
cut Howard A. Smith
occupation

Gold from a Hot Throat is a 1957 American musical film directed by Hal Kanter . It is based on the story A Call From Mitch Miller by Mary Agnes Thompson . It was the second feature film and first color film in which Elvis Presley played a role.

action

Glenda Markle is the manager of Walter "Tex" Warner and his musicians. She and Tex were once engaged and married, and are now divorced, but Walter still loves Glenda. Together with the politician Jim Tallman, they are on an election campaign tour through the villages, from whom they have not received any wages for several weeks, and dream of the appearances in big cities that they once denied.

During a stop in a village, the young Deke Rivers is recommended to them as a singer. He works as a transporter and is reluctant to sing with Tex and his band. While the older residents of the village are not very happy about the music, the young women react enthusiastically. Glenda hires Deke, ends the contract with Tallman and from then on moves with Deke, the young singer Susan, Tex and the band on their own through the villages. If Deke is always taken out of the audience at the beginning and presented as a resident of the village in order to win the audience's sympathy, it soon becomes apparent that this is not necessary: ​​the young audience is at his feet. Deke and Glenda secretly sign a contract that makes them his manager.

Deke rises within the band. He is now named on an equal footing with Tex when the show is announced, receives the same salary, appears on stage immediately and receives his own guitar. Glenda's skilful marketing also includes the press, which is increasingly being supplied with small scandals about Deke. Glenda stages fights between angry mothers and euphoric daughters and surprises Deke with a groupie in his cloakroom - this photo also finds its way into the newspapers. Deke, however, has long since found a friend in the young Susan. When he got a few days off after appearing in Amarillo , he drove with Susan to her parents' country. He confesses his love to her.

Glenda, however, wants to continue marketing Deke. She lets Tex cancel his life insurance policy in order to buy an expensive convertible with the money. Before Deke, she claims that an oil millionaire heard him sing and therefore gave him the car. She forces Deke to end his vacation with Susan prematurely because she wants to present him to the public with the car. Deke also learns that Glenda organized a televised one-man concert for him at Freegate Civic Hall near Dallas - excluding the band and Susan who were fired. On the drive to Freegate, Deke tells Glenda about his past: he lost his parents early to an accident, he grew up in an orphanage . From there he fled and in the end found himself in a cemetery . On a tombstone was the name "Deke Rivers" and the saying "He was alone, except for a few friends who mourn him". He took on Dee's name and had been looking for friends ever since, whom he had hoped to find in Glenda, Tex and Susan.

At first there were problems in Freegate, as Dee's appearance was banned under pressure from the local mothers. Only Glenda's use can lift the ban. Just before the live televsion recording begins, Glenda learns that Deke has left. He wanted to leave the previous evening because he couldn't stand the talk about him and the dirty press any more. Glenda confessed to him how much he meant to her and he stayed. But now he has learned from Tex that he was once engaged and married to Glenda and has now been dropped for Deke. He is leaving. While the live broadcast begins and numerous people from Dee's past present their views on him, Glenda catches up with the fleeing Deke. She confesses to him that many things that have appeared in the press were fabricated by her and that the car was only part of an advertising campaign. She says she lied to him about everything, but not in predicting that he would make his way. She tears up the common contract. Deke realizes that he, and not Glenda, is in control of his fate. He returns in time to appear on the TV show. The performance is a success. Deke now asks Glenda and Tex to sign him again together. He meets Susan again, who had her say on the TV show and to whom he had dedicated a song during his performance. They both embrace and Glenda and Tex become a couple again.

production

The film was shot from January 21 to March 8, 1957 at Paramount Studios. The exterior scenes were shot on a farm not far from Hollywood . The film premiered on July 10, 1957 at the Strand Theater in Memphis . Elvis Presley is dubbed in the German version by Rainer Brandt .

The originally intended film title was The Lonesome Cowboy . During the filming, the title changed to Running Wild , before Stranger in Town and then Something for the Girls were intended as the film title. Only then did the title song Loving You be chosen . Elvis Presley also sings the songs Got A Lot O 'Livin' To Do , (Let's Have A) Party , (Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear , Hot Dog , Lonesome Cowboy and Mean Woman Blues . Dolores Hart , who made her film debut in Gold from a hot throat , sings the title Detour .

At the suggestion of director Hal Kanter, Presley's parents Vernon and Gladys can be seen in the audience as extras during the final concert. After Gladys' death in 1958, Presley never watched the film again.

criticism

The film service found:

“After the unnecessary attempt to give the second half of the game a few dark and dramatic accents [...] the film leads its hero Elvis to a friendly, sentimental happy ending with the lovable, simple partner Dolores Hart. [...] That was brought into the picture with a certain amount of pep and smooth colors. Nobody will expect performance. [...] in contrast to some of its predecessors, this is a relatively harmless entertainment film for fans of relevant music. "

- film service 1958

The encyclopedia of international films published by film-dienst in 1990 described Gold out of the Throat as a “star film about Elvis Presley, entirely geared towards the tastes of young people. The emotional story can be forgotten, but there are some authentic rock'n'roll numbers for Elvis fans. "

Cinema wrote: "It goes down like oil, that gas station attendant".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mother Dolores Hart, OSB and Richard DeNeut: The Ear of the Heart . Ignatius Press, San Francisco 2013, p. 51 / ISBN 978-1-58617-747-8
  2. ↑ See imdb.com
  3. ↑ ie: Gold from a hot throat . In: film-dienst, No. 7, 1958.
  4. ↑ Klaus Brüne (Ed.): Lexicon of International Films . Volume 3. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1990, p. 1364.
  5. ↑ See cinema.de