Is' what, doc?

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Movie
German title Is' what, doc?
Original title What's up, doc?
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1972
length 94 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Peter Bogdanovich
script David Newman ,
Robert Benton ,
Buck Henry ,
Peter Bogdanovich
production Peter Bogdanovich
music Artie Butler
camera László Kovács
cut Verna Fields
occupation
synchronization

Is' what, doc? is a 1972 American fiction film directed by Peter Bogdanovich in the tradition of classic screwball comedies such as Leopards You Don't Kiss (1938). The main roles are played by Barbra Streisand and Ryan O'Neal .

action

The story begins with four identical travel bags in San Francisco . One of them belongs to the always absent-minded musicologist Dr. Howard Bannister and contains prehistoric stones. Howard is completely in love with his abstruse field of research (the relationship of early humans to igneous rocks) and is interested in little else. For this reason he is engaged to the decisive, stuffy-stupid, over-correct Eunice Burns: Apparently he was (internally) very little involved in this engagement himself. Another travel bag is full of clothes and belongs to the carefree and chaotic “multi” student Judy Maxwell, who immediately feels drawn to Howard after their first meeting. She does everything she can to conquer Howard. A third travel bag belongs to the elderly millionaire Mrs. Van Hoskins and is filled with trinkets. The fourth travel bag belongs to agent Mr. Smith and contains stolen secret government files. All four travel bags with their owners are accommodated in the Hotel Bristol.

Howard and Eunice are in San Francisco for a congress of American musicologists (“musicologists”) to win a scholarship donated by the somewhat weird patron Frederick Larrabee. Judy pretends to be the fiancée Eunice to Larrabee at the evening event and wins the patron's sympathy, so that Howard waves the scholarship. That same evening, the hotel's concierge and an accomplice, the house detective, try to steal Mrs. Van Hoskins' jewels. But the government files of Mr. Smith are also sought after, because the counter-spy Mr. Jones is trying to get hold of them for the government. So the four suitcases in the hotel rooms are gradually exchanged: Howard gets the jewels, Judy the documents, Mr. Smith the clothes from Judy and the thieves Howard's stones.

The relationship between Howard and Eunice gets into a serious crisis through Judy when she sneaks into Howard's hotel room at night and a jealous Eunice suspects this. Howard's room burns down and he is expelled from the hotel. Judy pretends to be Eunice at a reception at the Larrabee house the next day, while she has given the real Eunice a false address. Everyone involved eventually finds their way to Larrabee's house, where a big argument breaks out. Howard and Judy manage to take all four bags in the crowd, resulting in a rapid chase through the streets of San Francisco. Four cars land in San Francisco Bay . At the furious finale that follows in the courtroom, it is up to Judge Maxwell, Judy's suicidal and grumpy father, to clarify the matter in front of everyone involved (and to despair of his daughter).

Mrs. Van Hoskins pays for the $ 19,950 damage from the chase with the $ 20,000 reward money for her recovered jewels. The hotel thieves flee abroad while Jones and Smith continue their argument over the documents, Eunice and Larrabee seem to become a couple. Howard gets his stones back, but the scholarship goes to his arrogant competitor Hugh Simon. Judy, who is well versed in many subjects, can prove to Simon that he is a plagiarist , which means that Howard still receives his scholarship from Larrabee. Judy and Howard become a couple and she now wants to study music with him.

background

The overall structure of the film is a nod to the American screwball comedies of the 1930s and early 1940s, especially Howard Hawk's leopards you don't kiss with Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn , who is considered a classic of the genre. Bogdanovich was friends with Hawks and had interviewed him several times since the 1960s. So get into Is' what, Doc? recognize many quotes from his role model: Barbra Streisand's rebellious nature is an allusion to Hepburn's character, while Ryan O'Neal as a shy, unworldly eccentric with thick glasses approaches Dr. Huxley Grants equates. One scene is even quoted in full: When O'Neal escapes from the hotel's drugstore before Streisand, she runs after him and throws herself on his suit, which promptly rips open. The same scenario happens with Grant and Hepburn in a posh restaurant.

At the end of the film, Judy says to Howard: "To love means never having to ask for forgiveness", alluding to Ryan O'Neal's first film Love Story , where this sentence is also said. After a perplexed pause he just says: "I've never heard anything stupid".

synchronization

role actor German Dubbing voice
Judy Maxwell Barbra Streisand Sabine Eggerth
Howard Bannister Ryan O'Neal Elmar Wepper
Eunice Burns Madeline Kahn Heidi Treutler
Hugh Simon Kenneth Mars Manfred Andrae
Frederick Larrabee Austin Pendleton Jürgen Clausen
Mr. Smith Michael Murphy Ludwig Sagittarius
Harry, hotel detective Sorrell Booke Bruno W. Pantel
Fritz, concierge Stefan Gierasch Paul Bürks
Mrs. Van Hoskins Mabel Albertson Alice Franz
Judge Maxwell Liam Dunn Klaus W. Krause
Mr. Kaltenborn, hotel manager John Hillerman Paul Lasner
Bailiff Graham Jarvis Horst Sachtleben
Policeman at the port M. Emmet Walsh Michael Gahr

Reviews

The comedy was largely received positively. At Rotten Tomatoes , the film has, based on 39 reviews, a positive rating of 90%.

"Peter Bogdanovich's gag-rich farce , which intelligently varies historical quotes and clichés of entertainment cinema, is one of the classics of New Hollywood ."

- Lexicon of international film

“Director Peter Bogdanovich shot this extremely funny classic of the new Hollywood film in the tradition of screwball comedies. The director insisted on citing numerous films and sometimes satirising them. The fun and exciting highlight: the crazy chase through San Francisco. "

- Prism Online

Awards

Madeline Kahn was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Young Actress, while the screenplay won the Writers Guild of America Award.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German synchronous index: German synchronous index | Movies | Is' what, doc? Retrieved March 13, 2018 .
  2. ↑ What's Up, Doc? Accessed February 5, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Is' what, Doc? In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 8, 2016 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  4. ↑ Is' what Doc? In: Prisma.de. Retrieved December 8, 2016 .