Kiss me like there's no tomorrow
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Kiss me like there's no tomorrow |
| Original title | The Festival Girls |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1961 |
| length | 75 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Leigh Jason |
| script |
Royal Foster Ralph Dust |
| production | John Harris |
| music | Borut Lesjak |
| camera | Erich Küchler |
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Kiss me like there's no tomorrow is a 1960 American exploitation film in the guise of a social melodrama. As so often in her young career, the young German film talent Barbara Valentin , who was to be brought out internationally in this film, plays a lascivious seductress.
action
Film director Larry Worthington is broke once again and is therefore very rudely kicked out of the door by a hotel manager. Only the loyal photographer Jerome remained at his side. When they both see a swimmer rescuing a blonde from the water, they immediately run there. Maybe you can make some money with one or the other photo of a well-built, blond water mermaid. Without further ado, Larry seizes the powerless beauty, who then promptly sees him first when she wakes up again. She calls herself Valentine and tells Larry that she posed as a swimwear model on a ship and fell overboard. Larry sees her as a great opportunity to get the upper hand again professionally and promises the shapely beautiful woman to make a big movie star out of her. Larry equips her optically like a movie star à la Marilyn Monroe , and soon Valentine is turning the heads of men in rows. One of them, a certain Dirk Vangard, seems to be quite wealthy, as he gives Valentine a diamond bracelet at the first rendezvous in the great outdoors.
When Valentine learns from Larry and his buddy Jerome that the film project that Valentine is supposed to make big is about to collapse due to an acute lack of money, she tells them not to worry about it. She already knows where and from whom she will get the badly needed bills. A little clinking of the eyes, the plump chest stretched out and her wish expressed in a velvety nightclub voice, and Vangard is immediately ready to finance Valentine's entire film. What nobody knows: The money invested in the film does not belong to Dirk at all. He embezzled it from his ex-girlfriend Nadja and let her diamonds go with him. Nadja is furious when she reads about the Vangard Valentine Worthington film in the newspaper. Meanwhile, Larry Worthington plans to put his work out at a film festival.
In fact, the film “Blonde Dynamite” is very successful and is due to be shown at the Venice Festival. In the meantime, Nadja did not remain idle and traveled with lawyer Vangard to confront her ex. In a small country inn on Fernverbindungsstrasse, she wants to create a violent scene for Hallodri, who is promising another woman a great film career. When Vangard sees Nadja, he immediately piles up. Meanwhile, Valentine makes a new film contact at a lively party in Venice. But the man who lured her there and whom she thought was an influential producer only wants to bed with her. At the last minute she saves Larry from this predicament. When it comes to the first direct confrontation between Valentine and Liz a little later, because Liz not only sees Valentine dancing with Dirk, but also identifies stolen diamonds on her, the two women immediately get into each other's hair and fight. All those involved are taken away by the police a little later. When the film actually received an award, the joy only lasted for a short time. Liz has the negative confiscated since it was made with her money, and Valentine instantly drops her Dirk. With the beaming smile of a fickle and calculating film diva, she throws herself at her discoverer Larry again and suddenly wants to marry him.
Production notes
Kiss me like there's no tomorrow was filmed in Munich , among other places, in 1960 and presumably had its world premiere on July 7, 1961 in the Federal Republic of Germany. In Austria the strip was shown for the first time on October 5, 1962, in the USA on November 22, 1962 in San Francisco.
Barbara Valentin, who creates her role in a mixture of innocent-naive nanny and amoral-calculating sex bomb, also completed two vocal appearances in this film.
Reviews
Paimann's film lists criticized Kiss' me as if there was no tomorrow a "primitive story" and found the film to be "just as ambitious as it was played with little talent."
The lexicon of international films called the trash flick a “absurd colportage”.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kiss me as if there was no tomorrow in Paimann's film lists ( Memento of the original from August 14, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Kiss me like there's no tomorrow. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed August 14, 2017 .
Web links
- Kiss' me as if there's no tomorrow in the Internet Movie Database (English)