It's crazy - just don't lose your head

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Movie
German title It's crazy - just don't lose your head
Original title Carry On Don't Lose Your Head
Country of production Great Britain
original language English
Publishing year 1966
length about 90 minutes
Rod
Director Gerald Thomas
script Norman Hudis
production Peter Rogers
music Eric Rogers
camera Alan Hume
cut Rod Keys
occupation
synchronization

It's crazy - just don't lose your head (also Carry On Pimpernel in the USA ) is the thirteenth film in the series of carry-on… films .

content

France during the French Revolution : Madame Guillotine holds a bloody harvest. Citizen Camembert, head of the secret police, and his assistant Bürger Bidet are satisfied. One noble head after the other lands in the basket. But then there is an unexpected problem. An unknown, masked man - the black fingernail - and his accomplice save the delinquents who are about to be executed. These two fighters for the nobility, in truth Sir Rodney Ffing and Lord Dacy Pue, noble idlers and dandies from England, torpedo the beautiful and ideal world of the revolution.

After the black fingernail saves the Comte de Pommfrit, the leader of the royalists , from the guillotine, Citizen Robespierre finally demands results, otherwise he would have Camembert executed.

This and Bidet manage to track down Ffing, Pue and the Comte de Pommfrit on their flight to England. The three escape only with the help of the young French woman Jacqueline, who meets Ffing by chance and falls in love with him. Camembert, however, takes Jacqueline prisoner and since he suspects that the black fingernail has also fallen in love with Jacqueline, he wants to use her to lure his enemy into a trap. Disguised as a French exile, Comte de la Plume de Matante, Camembert travels to England with Bidet and his lover Désirée, where he can both find out Ffing's identity and send him the news that Jacqueline is to be executed.

Ffing, Pue and Comte de Pommfrit immediately return to France, where Camembert and Bidet are waiting for him and want to arrest him. The final battle takes place at Chateau Neuf, the castle of an executed nobleman that Camembert has handed over to himself. Since Ffing manages to escape with Jacqueline and his helpers, Robespierre sends Camembert and Bidet to the guillotine. At the last moment, Ffing reveals himself to be the executioner and then releases the guillotine.

Remarks

This film is a parody of the film adaptations of the novel Scarlet Pimpernel or The Scarlet Seal by Emmuska Orczy , in which a group of English nobles make successful attempts to save French nobles from the scaffold.

This part is one of the most ambitious films in the series. The equipment of the film surpasses almost all other parts of the series. And you achieved what you intended: The film not only works as a hilarious comedy that satirizes coat-and-sword films à la Zorro , but the film is also both believable and coherent as an adventure film .

The reversals of the common images are also very interesting in this film. On the one hand, we have Citizens Camembert - slick, accurate, of thoroughly aristocratic behavior. On the other hand the black fingernail - lascivious, loud, through and through "proll".

With this film, production changes from Anglo-Amalgamated Productions to The Rank Organization . In order to be able to gain a foothold with the series on the American market, the standard carry-on title for the international market was dispensed with for the first time (with only two films in total) . The film is known internationally as Don't Lose Your Head . Ironically, however, the film was given a second title in the USA: Carry On Pimpernel - and it was another carry on .

The end of the last scene was cut in the German TV version. So Camembert and Bidet learn that their executioner is the black fingernail, the trigger for the guillotine has been removed. This is available again in the DVD version (2009).

synchronization

The German dubbing was created in 1987 on behalf of ZDF and directed by Edgar Ott .

role actor Voice actor
Sir Rodney Ffing Sidney James Edgar Ott
Camembert Kenneth Williams Stefan Behrens
Lord Darcy Jim Dale Uwe Paulsen
Duc de French fries Charles Hawtrey Wilfried Herbst
Robespierre Peter Gilmore Claus Jurichs
Desirée Dubarry Joan Sims Edeltraut Elsner
bidet Peter Butterworth Gerd Duwner
Jacqueline Dany Robin Katja Nottke

Reviews

  • "(...) the" black fingernail ", symbol of the (filthy) powder and wig box, is a signal for happy action and bright humor." (Rating: 2 stars = average) - Adolf Heinzlmeier and Berndt Schulz in the lexicon "Films on television ” (extended new edition). Rasch and Röhring, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-89136-392-3 , p. 410

DVD release

  • It's crazy - just don't lose your head . AmCo / MMP 2006

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ It's crazy - just don't lose your head in the German dubbing index ; Retrieved August 26, 2007