Alluring temptation
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Alluring temptation |
| Original title | Friendly persuasion |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1956 |
| length | 137 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | William Wyler |
| script |
Jessamyn West Michael Wilson |
| production |
Harry F. Hogan Walter Mirisch Robert Wyler William Wyler for Allied Artists |
| music | Dimitri Tiomkin |
| camera | Ellsworth Fredericks |
| cut |
Robert Belcher Edward A. Biery Robert Swink |
| occupation | |
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Alluring Temptation is an American drama film directed by William Wyler from 1956 and starring Gary Cooper . The film was awarded the Palme d'Or in Cannes and received several Oscar nominations.
action
The Quaker family Blumer (in the original English version Birdwell) in Indiana tried to preserve their pacifist principles during the Civil War in 1862 .
Everyday life regularly leads to a dilemma of a practical kind. The goose Samantha attacks the Quaker boy Daniel (Little Jess in the original English version), who defends himself by pouring a bucket of water over her feathers and even threatens to kill them. His mother, Eliza Blumer, head of a Quaker community, reminds him of the principle of non-violence. Eliza does not like that Jesse, her husband, is running carriage races with his Methodist friend Sam Jordan on the way to the house of prayer and demanding an extra effort from his horse that it would not have voluntarily undertaken. Jesse is therefore always overtaken by Sam Jordan, which bothers him a lot. Non-violence also applies to animals, insofar as the basic human needs allow it. Jesse ends up buying a horse from the quirky Hudspeth family, who have a voluntary habit of not being overtaken by other horses - with which he manages to beat Sam Jordan on the way to church.
The Quaker youth Caleb Cope believes he can at least allow himself a fight in the game. He throws his opponent to the ground at the fair. When the loser pretends to be in pain, Caleb renounces victory and incurs the anger of those who have bet on him. They hit him, knowing that a Quaker can't hit back. Jesse Blumer finds a pragmatic solution: He clutches the attacker and puts him upside down in a water barrel to cool off, as if it were a relief. Eliza, the community leader, also fails because of her principles: A Confederate soldier, member of a cavalry patrol operating deep within the Union, wants to catch the goose Samantha. The pious Quaker grabs a broom and harasses the cavalryman until he waives Samantha in exchange for other food. The southerner lets himself be persuaded by the harmless attack. He reacts like a gentleman, almost like a Quaker. Eliza, on the other hand, suffers from her sin against non-violence. Her husband is not supposed to find out about it, but Jesse finds out about the indiscretion of his youngest and has fun.
Jesse wants to keep the harmonium he bought at the fair. His wife forbids him as the head of the community because music is a worldly pleasure to which a Quaker is not allowed to indulge. He disregards their concerns. Eliza tries psychological pressure: She moves from the marital bedroom into the stable. The couple negotiates a compromise. The harmonium remains, but only in the memory, and is played on weekdays at the most.
Indiana's vigilante groups oppose the Confederate commando. Joshua, the eldest of the Blumer sons, has joined her to save his parents' house from being pillaged. Eliza and Jesse let their son pull heavy hearts. A battle develops on the banks of the Muscatatuck River near the Birdwells. Joshua only sees the enemy riding into the river through the barrel of the gun. He shoots and kills him. When Joshua's horse returns to the farm without a rider, Jesse looks for his son on the battlefield. He finds him injured but alive. However, among the fallen is Sam Jordan. Jesse is attacked by a southerner who is armed with a rifle and apparently also killed Sam Jordan. He can take the rifle from him in battle, but Jesse spares him and lets him go.
At the end of the film, calm has returned to the world of the Quakers. Mattie, the daughter of the Blumers, and Sam Jordan's son Gard confess their love and become engaged.
background
Michael Wilson's script was based on the novel The Friendly Persuasion by Jessamyn West .
For director William Wyler it was the first color film and after Mein Mann, der Cowboy und Der Westerner the third and final collaboration with leading actor Gary Cooper .
Allied Artists Pictures, a successor to the former low-budget studio Monogram Pictures , took over distribution in the USA. The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer brought the film in 1957 in the West German cinemas. In this synchronized version, which is still in use today, Gary Cooper got the voice of Ernst Wilhelm Borchert .
The German theme song "Für uns Zwei" was sung by Tony Weller, aka Walter Sieben, from Aachen in 1956, and Pat Boone sang the English version in the same year .
Dubbed version
The German dubbed version was made for the cinema premiere in 1956.
| role | actor | German Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Jesse Blumer | Gary Cooper | Ernst Wilhelm Borchert |
| Eliza Birdwell | Dorothy McGuire | Tilly Lauenstein |
| Josh Birdwell | Anthony Perkins | Ottokar Runze |
| Eric Jordan | Peter Mark Richman | Eckart Dux |
| Professor Quigley, piano dealer | Walter Catlett | Alfred Balthoff |
Reviews
"The careful setting of this film, the cleverly relaxed script and, last but not least, the performance of the actors have won this film international awards and are strongly recommended for a visit."
“The award-winning and well-cast film eludes a statement and avoids any commitment. In some scenes the atmosphere is very dense and psychologically precise, but formally overall rather disappointing. Despite its shortcomings, it is appealing as contemplative entertainment that also has charm despite all the drama.
“Director William Wyler, who has won multiple Oscar awards and was already active in the silent film era, staged an impressive picture of the times with a top-class cast that offers upscale and atmospherically dense entertainment far away from the Western genre, even if ridden from time to time and shot. "
Awards
- 1957: Oscar nomination: Best Picture
- 1957: Oscar nomination: Best Director
- 1957: Oscar nomination: Best Supporting Actor
- 1957: Oscar nomination: Best Screenplay Adaptation
- 1957: Oscar nomination: Best Sound
- 1957: Oscar nomination: Best film song
- 1957: the golden palm of Cannes
Web links
- Persuasion in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Persuasion at rotten tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The only military action by the Confederates north of Ohio under John Hunt Morgan took place in July 1863
- ↑ The literal translation is: friendly persuasion, which also (after The Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Current English ) as a religious faith ( religious belief ) or as a community of faith ( any group or sect holding a Particular amounted can be understood) and Religious Society who would mean friends, so Quakers. The German book title is: Lure them like a dove (Brunnen-Verlag Gießen)
- ↑ Enticing temptation with the German dubbing index
- ↑ Assessment from September 1957 ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2007 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. (PDF; 35 kB)
- ↑ Alluring temptation. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Enticing temptation on prisma.de
