Jenny and the gentleman in tails

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Movie
Original title Jenny and the gentleman in tails
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1941
length 89 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
Rod
Director Paul Martin
script Jacob Geis
Peter Groll
Paul Martin
Georg Zoch
production Ernst Rechenmacher
for Bavaria Filmkunst
music Lothar Bruhne
camera Josef Strecher
cut Hans Wolff
occupation

Jenny and the gentleman in tails is a German crime comedy directed by Paul Martin from 1941.

action

Insurance detective Peter Holm from the Merkur insurance company is on the trail of the thief Robert Makaroff, who is after a valuable pearl that has been highly insured with Merkur. The pearl has since been donated to the dancer Lilly Hegedüsch, but previously belonged to Count Palfi. There is a break-in at Palfi, shortly before the pearl was offered for sale under the hand of a woman. Peter Holm now knows that Makaroff has to steal the pearl in order to do his business perfectly. In order to be able to ask Makaroff, he had an article printed in the newspaper that introduced Lilly Hegedüsch as the new owner of the pearl. Lilly will soon be attending a stamp congress in Copenhagen and Peter doesn't want to leave her during this time. However, Peter's boss Brink is not very enthusiastic and dismisses him because he has put the thief on the trail of the pearl. Last but not least, the dismissal is forced by Brink's daughter Jenny, who has just completed her apprenticeship as a criminalist and travels to Copenhagen under cover names to find Makaroff. Peter has already fallen in love with her in the office and father Brink announced the wedding to Jenny - and makes Jenny the first marriage proposal on the train, unrecognized, which she refuses.

In Copenhagen, Peter not only meets Lilly, whom he lets in on his plan, but also sees his former school friend Willy Krag, a passionate stamp collector, again after a long time. In addition, the bishop arrives, who shortly before had canceled his participation in the congress due to scheduling reasons. In reality, however, his Eminence is Robert Makaroff, who wants to steal the pearl undetected. Various coincidences lead Jenny to think Peter is Makaroff. Since she only pays attention to him when she wants to make him a criminal, Peter lets her believe again and again that he is actually the criminal wanted. At the same time he advertises her, invites her to the engagement dinner and already orders the rings, while at the same time he tries to identify Makaroff. At the closing party of the congress, Peter tries to catch Makaroff with a trick, but at the crucial moment Peter is arrested by the police at Jenny's instigation. Only now does Peter Jenny reveal himself. Jenny's father, in turn, appears and explains to Jenny that dowry hunter Peter had known who she was all along. In the midst of the hustle and bustle, Makaroff succeeds in stealing the pearl from Lilly and smuggling the piece of jewelry out of the hotel via his backers.

Through a middleman, Jenny learns that the pearl is hidden in cigars. Peter, in turn, saw one of the accomplices write the number 41 on a piece of paper for another. He follows a suspect to the train station and is able to search a suitcase with the number 41, but finds nothing suspicious in it. A cigar box is still sealed. Meanwhile, Jenny wants to leave Peter disappointed, but doesn't tell him anything about her knowledge about the whereabouts of the pearl. Even Brink's persuasion, who has long been convinced of Peter's honest intentions, is of no use. Meanwhile, Willy Krag can expose the bishop as a fraud, who wanted to give him an extremely rare stamp for two worthless pieces. Jenny and Peter reconcile at the train station and he learns from her about the hiding place of the pearl in cigars. The suitcase with the number 41 is taken to the bishop's compartment and Jenny and Peter find the pearl in the suitcase. The bishop threatened her with a pistol, but was shortly afterwards taken into custody by the police, alerted by Krag. There is a happy ending for Jenny and Peter, and Willy Krag is also happy: From the high reward that was offered on Makaroff's head, he can finally afford a particularly rare stamp.

production

Jenny and the gentleman in tails was based on a crime comedy by Georg Zoch , who was also involved in the script. The shooting took place from June 12 to August 1941 in the area of ​​Prague as well as in the Bavaria film studios. On November 25, 1941, the film was premiered at the Schweden-Lichtspiele in Vienna .

The film is one of the few German crime films that came into cinemas during the Nazi era. “[T] he genre was not very popular with the Nazis. There were officially no criminals, and the radiant German cinema stars were not expected to play villains or criminals. ”As in most cases, the policeman in Jenny and the man in tails became a private investigator.

Various songs can be heard in the film: Johannes Heesters sings Poor Musician sings a song about love and Hilde Hildebrand interprets So was the wife of Eschebach . The lyrics were written by Charles Amberg and Bruno Balz . The piece of sport and music can also be heard.

Jürgen Trimborn's Johannes-Heesters-Biografie Der Herr im Frack refers in the title to the film title.

criticism

“Cheeky, briskly played and staged crime comedy with music,” said the film service . Cinema called the film a "quickly played comedy from the Ufa factory".

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jürgen Trimborn: The gentleman in tails. Johannes Heesters - biography . Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 2003, p. 343.
  2. ↑ Jenny and the gentleman in tails. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ↑ See cinema.de