Jonny Banco - Beloved good-for-nothing

Movie
German title	Jonny Banco - Beloved good-for-nothing
Original title	Johnny Banco
Country of production	France , ; Germany , ; Italy
original language	French
Publishing year	1967
length	98 minutes
Age rating	FSK 18
Rod
Director	Yves Allégret
script	Yves Allègret ; James Carter ; Jean Vermorel ; Michel Audiard (dialogues only)
production	Paul Temps ; Gottfried Wegeleben
music	Michel Magne ; Luigi Russoli
camera	Michel Kelber
cut	Henri Rust
occupation
	Horst Buchholz : Johnny Banco; Sylva Koscina : Laureen Moore; Elisabeth Wiener : Nati; Walter Giller : Inspector Jakubowski; Michel de Ré : Orso Sebastiani; Jean Parédès : l'Anchois; Fée Calderon : Mignon de Brandy; Friedrich Joloff : Aristopoulos; Jacques Balutin : Grégori; Romain Bouteille : l'Éveillé; Luciana Vincenzi : Berthe; Jean Combal : Alfred;

Jonny Banco - beloved good-for-nothing is a French-German-Italian fictional film by Yves Allégret with Horst Buchholz in the title role. The film is based on the novel Le Flamenco des assassins by Frédéric Valmain .

action

Jonny Banco is a first-rate woman beggar, a passionate player and a downright rascal. He has long been waiting for the opportunity to land the big coup of his life. One day, of all things, he receives this thanks to his teacher, the gangster Orso Sebastiani, whose suitcase with 100 million French francs Jonny quickly takes and with him fled Barcelona. His pretty bride, the brunette Nati, falls by the wayside. As a soldier of fortune, Banco is drawn to Monte Carlo, where he pretends to be a charming and somewhat cocky bon vivant and cavalier and promptly squanders all the money that was embezzled in the local casino. Johnny also meets Laureen Moore on site, an attractive woman who is said to be a widow and also allegedly very rich. In reality, she is also an unscrupulous soldier of fortune who is only on the hunt for millionaires, whom she can marry and then kill immediately.

Since Laureen assumes, due to Jonny's appearance, that her newest husband must also be filthy rich, she seduces the young do-it-all and becomes his wife. Meanwhile, Sebastiani, on the hunt for Banco and the stolen suitcase, has arrived in Monte Carlo, with Jonny's bride Nati, who was left behind in Barcelona, in tow. Sebastiani first makes the annoying fake millionaire widow Moore harmless in order to calmly tackle the unfaithful Jonny Banco. But, as is well known, the money is already wasted. Things soon come to a head and Jonny falls into police custody. He is charged with a crime, but now the value of true love shows, because the once left Nati turns out to be a loyal and Jonny still loving friend and exonerates him in front of the police.

Production notes

Jonny Banco - Beloved Good-for-nothing was made between November 2, 1966 and January 5, 1967. The German premiere was on September 8, 1967 in Germany, in France the film did not open until the following spring, with a certain delay.

The film structures and costumes were created by Jean d'Eaubonne .

criticism

The lexicon of international film found the film "ambiguous and lengthy" staged and located "superficial turbulence."

Individual evidence

↑ Jonny Banco - Beloved good-for-nothing. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 1, 2018 .

Web links

Jonny Banco - beloved rascal in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Jonny Banco - beloved good- for- nothing at filmportal.de

[1] Jonny Banco - Beloved good-for-nothing. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 1, 2018 .