Wedding night in front of witnesses

Movie
German title	Wedding night in front of witnesses
Original title	What's So Bad About Feeling Good?
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	1968
length	93 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16
Rod
Director	George Seaton
script	George Seaton, Robert Pirosh
music	Jerry Keller , Dave Blume
camera	Ernest Caparros
cut	Alma Macrorie
occupation
George Peppard : Pete Mary Tyler Moore : Liz Don Stroud : Barney Susan Saint James : Aida Dom DeLuise : J. Gardner Monroe Nathaniel Frey : Conrad John McMartin : The Mayor Charles Lane : Dr. Shapiro Jeanne Arnold : Gertrud George Furth : Murgatroyd Morty Gunty : Sergeant Gunty Joe Ponacecki : Officer Ponacecki Lincoln Kilpatrick Frank Campanella Thelma Ritter Franklin Cover Moses Gunn George O. Petrie

Wedding night in front of witnesses , in the original title What's So Bad About Feeling Good? (In English: What's So Bad About Feeling Good? ) is a 1968 American film directed by George Seaton . He wrote the script himself together with Robert Pirosh . It is based on the short story I am Thinking Of My Darling by Vincent McHugh . In the Federal Republic of Germany, the film was first shown in cinemas on May 17, 1968.

action

The first symptoms appear on a Greek freighter anchored off New York. The otherwise grumpy sailors fall into the euphoria caused by a virus transmitted by a toucan . The bird is said to be in quarantine , but escapes and flies to the East Village , where Liz and Pete live with a group of hippies. Liz stays immune; but Pete is infected. He immediately infects his cronies, who, previously succumbing to the philosophy of absolute hopelessness, now remain in a state of well-being. The epidemic of luck spreads, threatens to seize all of New York. The road users no longer yell at each other; the couples stop bickering. The divorce numbers are falling, the lovers are queuing in front of the registry offices. People stop their vices like smoking and drinking; the state threatens to go bankrupt if the tax losses .

Washington steps in. Protective masks are distributed. That is where the antidote is found. The problem with Pete is reverting to the bearded and grumpy figure he used to be.

criticism

"An original, romantic comedy that doesn't quite hold out its fresh staging style."

- Lexicon of international film

"The useful idea was not used properly, so only average funny entertainment."

- Protestant film observer ,

“The satire goes down a bit because director George Seaton lets the bird in question speak like a comic strip. Still worth seeing, among other things because of George Furth's performance as the right-hand man of Dom DeLuises politician and a cameo by Thelma Ritter. "

- kino.de

Web links

• Wedding night in front of witnesses in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• A few pictures from the film at cinema.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The source for the plot is the long review in the Evangelisches Filmbeobachter . Evangelical Press Association Munich, Volume 20, p. 256.
2. ↑ rororo-Taschenbuch No. 6322 (1988), p. 1640
3. ↑ Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 254/1968, p. 256
4. ↑ http://www.kino.de/kinofilm/hochzeitsnacht-vor-zeugen/29685