Keep your hands off the doll

Movie
German title	Keep your hands off the doll
Original title	Per un pugno di canzoni
Country of production	Italy , Spain
original language	Italian French
Publishing year	1966
length	85 (German version: 79) minutes
Age rating	FSK 6
Rod
Director	José Luis Merino
script	José Luis Merino Mario Amendola Carlo Veo German version also Franz-Otto Krüger Sigrid Werner
music	Enrico Polito
camera	Giovanni Testi
cut	Cesare Bonelli José Antonio Rojo
occupation
Vivi Bach : Betty Johnson Gustavo Rojo : Great eagle Thomas Alder : The German Renzo Palmer : Toro Luis Induni : Sheriff Umberto D'Orsi : Nonno Nino Vingelli : gangsters Lucio Dalla Anna Maria Pannaro Ennio Antonelli

Let your fingers off the doll is a musical western comedy by José Luis Merino from 1966.

action

A music competition is taking place in the North American city of Little Europe and is being televised. When the different nationalities living there - Italians, Spanish, French and Germans - try to influence the competition, the sheriff has to intervene. When the lawyer Betty arrives too late for the competition because she was stopped by the men of a record magnate who also wants to influence the competition, the sheriff becomes active again and unceremoniously bans them both from the city. Thanks to Chief Great Eagle, all confrontations are bloodless; he himself retires to the prairie with Betty.

background

In the film, which was also shown as Europa canta , numerous pop singers and beat groups appear alongside the actors. Depending on the country of production, other numbers were cut. In the German version, Mary Roos had one of her first international appearances.

The interpreters of the German version in the order of their appearance:

• Mary Roos (“Young Love”), Françoise Hardy (“Parla mi di te”), Wilma Goich (“In un fiore”), Ornella Vanoni (“Abbracciami forte”), unknown, Tony del Monaco (“Se la vita è so ”), Twist-Can-Can-Girls , Nini Rosso (“ Il silenzio ”), Kings (“ Fai quello che vuoi ”), Fred Bertelmann (“ When I look at you ”), I Pelati , Beatles di Cadiz , I Snobs ("Sha la la la la"), The Honeybeats ("Aaa-dici"), Domenico Modugno ("Tu sì 'na cosa grande"), Equipe 84 ("Io ho in mente te"), Marcellos Ferial (" Johnny Brown ”), unknown.

The Italian version also mentions Tony Cucchiara , Adriano Celentano ("Ringo") and the Yardbirds ("For Your Love"), who at least cannot be seen in the German version.

criticism

"A pointless attempt to parody entertainment business practices and a Wild West story."

- Lexicon of international film

“Apart from a few noteworthy ideas, this hype around the European Schlager festival only provides mediocre entertainment. At most, hit-loving teenagers get their money's worth. "

- Protestant film observer

Web links

• Let the fingers of the doll in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Dizionario del Cinema Italiano, Vol. 3. Gremese 1992, p. 396
2. ↑ Keep your fingers off the doll. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .  
3. ↑ Evangelical Press Association Munich, Review No. 94/1967