No time for love

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Movie
German title No time for love
Original title No time for love
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1943
length 83 minutes
Age rating FSK not specified
Rod
Director Mitchell Leisen
script Claude Binyon
Warren Duff
production Fred Kohlmar
Mitchell Leisen
music Victor Young
camera Charles Lang
cut Alma Macrorie
occupation

No Time for Love (OT: No Time for Love ) is an American movie from the year 1943. Directed by Mitchell Leisen played Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray star in this film romance. The film is based on a story by Robert Lees and Frederic I. Rinaldo .

action

The New York photographer Katherine Grant, known as Kate, has another argument with the editor-in-chief of Mirror Magazine, who thinks her pictures are too artistically ambitious. Katherine's friend Henry Fulton, who also works in the editorial office of Mirror Magazine, leaves this pretty cold, as Kate constantly provokes arguments. Your new assignment, which is supposed to be a kind of punishment, is to shoot pictures of a project in a tunnel under the East River . Here workers are busy trying out a new drill bit to make it easier for them to deal with the mud they have to deal with. Equipped with a helmet and rubber boots, the young woman goes into the depths of the tunnel. Since the men underground are firmly convinced that a woman in the tunnel means bad luck, they initially encounter Kate a little bit rough.

Kate wants Jim Ryan, a confident, strong man, to model her , and a dangerous incident occurs. Jim falls from a scaffolding in front of a machine that almost crushes him. With her presence of mind, however, Kate pulls the man out of the danger zone just in time. Ryan is later teased by his comrades that a woman saved his life, which ends in a fight. Kate doesn't really know what to think of the man who has a strange attraction for her. He speaks to her in a way that no one has spoken to her before. Without Kate being able to prevent it, Ryan even sneaks into her dreams in which he is her superhero and frees her from uncomfortable situations.

Since pictures of Ryan are published in Mirror Magazine, which show him during the fight in the tunnel, he is fired from his company. Ryan has a hard time believing that it is not Kate who is responsible, but her friend Henry, who had secretly stolen the pictures. Kate offers Jim a job as her assistant in return, hoping that Jim will present himself in a way that she no longer finds him attractive. Ryan, however, is more than equal to the new situations she confronts him. Since Kate's sister Holly does not want a connection between Ryan and her sister, she manipulates Ryan, who then withdraws from Kate and enters into a relationship with the ballet dancer Darlene.

When Ryan learns that the tunnel project is in jeopardy, the trained engineer wants to help and develops a machine to curb the flow of mud by freezing. When Ryan is given the chance to demonstrate his machine, Kate is in the tunnel with other reporters to report. The press people have been instructed to keep a sufficient safety distance from the machine. Kate, however, doesn't stick to it and sneaks deeper into the tunnel. While the young reporter is shooting her photos of Ryan's machine fighting the mud, a break in the tunnel wall leads to a mudslide that buries Kate and her camera under her. The tunnel workers, who have to give up Ryan's machine, save Kate and a little later also retrieve the camera. The photos prove Ryan's invention actually works, and Ryan is reinstated and put in charge of the project. However, since Ryan is only busy with his work after that, Kate decides to marry her boyfriend Henry Fulton. Ryan learns from Roger, a composer friend, that Kate still loves him. Darlene, who wants Ryan for herself, disrupts Kate's engagement party and tells the rival to keep her hands off her boyfriend. There is even a fight between the two. When Ryan arrives, he asks Kate to choose between him and Henry Fulton. She chooses Ryan, who happily finds time for love again.

Production and Background

The film had its world premiere in New York , USA , in January 1943 . The first showing in Germany took place in June 1946. In Austria the film was also shown for the first time in 1946. Sometimes it ran under the title No time for love . The shooting took place from June 8 to July 29, 1942 at Paramount Studios in Hollywood , Los Angeles , USA. The film ran on German television for the first time on June 17, 1981 on ARD .

The multiple award-winning Edith Head was responsible for the costumes in this film . Hans Dreier and Robert Usher were responsible for the film construction with the help of Sam Comer (set designer), who also received an Oscar nomination .

No Time for Love is the fourth joint film by Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray . Both formed an excellent team in a total of seven films between 1935 and 1948. Fred Mac Murray made nine films under Mitchell Leisen's direction and Claudette Colbert made four. Leisen wrote in his biography that this film was a very pleasant collaboration and that "Fred and Claudette worked together wonderfully."

Katherine Grant's character in No Time for Love is based on the American photo reporter Margaret Bourke-White , who first drew attention to herself with her spectacular shots of industrial plants. The tunnel shown in the film was built by Paramount on the studio's largest stage. It was 25 meters long and filled with mud in the crucial scenes. The attempt to develop material that resembled real mud failed because nothing looked like it could have been believed to be real mud. Ultimately, clay bricks and water were used to create a mud-like consistency.

DVDs

As a single DVD, the film is only available in the original English version with Spanish subtitles and in a Mitchell Leisen Collection (6 films) also only in the original English version, subtitled in Italian. The film is also available on the American market as a DVD in the Claudette Colbert Collection .

criticism

“The uncomfortable star photographer for a New York magazine, used to work-related disputes, gets into private conflicts when carrying out a job. She falls in love with a rowdy worker in a tunnel construction column who loses his position after the photos are published. Thereupon she hires him as her assistant to, as she says, heal herself from her infatuation. Of course, everything turns out differently than expected. A turbulent, largely entertaining Hollywood comedy, lavishly decorated, well played. "

- Lexicon of international film

" No time for love , turned out to be a pleasant change for the war-weary audience."

- Bosley Crowther , The New York Times

Furthermore, Crowther praised the film and the acting performances and said, of course, one could argue that he was "a little too frivolous these days, at this time". But it could also be seen as "a first-class example of inconsequential entertainment serving as a distraction".

Awards

The film architects Hans Dreier , Robert Usher and Sam Comer were nominated for an Oscar in the category “Best Set Design in a Black and White Film ” at the 1945 Academy Awards. However, this went to colleagues Cedric Gibbons , William Ferrari , Edwin B. Willis and Paul Huldschinsky for their performance in the film drama The House of Lady Alquist .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Margarita Landazuri: No Time for Love (1943) - Articles. In: Turner Classic Movies . Retrieved July 25, 2019 .
  2. ↑ No Time for Love DVD
  3. ↑ Mitchell Leisen Collection
  4. ^ The Claudette Colbert Collection
  5. ↑ No time for love. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed July 25, 2019 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  6. ↑ Bosley Crowther : No Time for Love In: The New York Times , December 2, 1943. Retrieved February 19, 2013.