Malaya (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Malaya |
| Original title | Malaya |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1949 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Richard Thorpe |
| script | Frank Fenton |
| production | Edwin H. Knopf |
| music | Bronislau caper |
| camera | George Folsey Junior |
| cut | Ben Lewis |
| occupation | |
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Malaya is a 1949 American adventure film directed by Richard Thorpe , based on Manchester Boddy's shortcut East of the Rising Sun.
action
Carnaghan, a smuggler, was released on condition that he helped John Royer. He is supposed to smuggle the rubber out of Malaya , which is occupied by the Japanese . The two are able to penetrate the country and meet Carnaghan's contact, a Dutch bar owner. He hires a gang of failed existences, including Romano.
Through bribery and threats, the group can get all the rubber available. But the Japanese commander, Colonel Tomura, suspects the smuggling plan. On the final tour, the people and the rest of the rubber are supposed to be taken to a freighter. The suspicious Carnaghan feels like he is running into an ambush. Royer ignores his warnings. The Japanese soldiers await the smugglers and kill Royer. The otherwise cynical Carnaghan manages to carry out his mission.
Reviews
" Treated as a war profiteer adventure with dry self-irony, as a necessary 'business for the fatherland' all too harmlessly trimmed with heroism."
background
- The Los Angeles Botanical Garden served as the location for the film.
- The film was Sydney Greenstreet's last work, Lionel Barrymore made three more films after that.
- The later Star Trek star DeForest Kelley played a small supporting role that was not mentioned in the credits .
- The film has an Oscar-winning star cast: Tracy won two Academy Awards (1938, 1939), Barrymore one (1931), as did Stewart (1941).
- Composer Kaper (1954), production designer Malcolm Brown (1957), costume designer Valles (1961) and art director Henry Grace (1959) received later Oscar honors.
- Grace's colleague was Cedric Gibbons , who won a total of eleven Oscars. Set decorator Edwin B. Willis got eight statues and sound engineer Douglas Shearer got seven (plus six special and one honorary Oscar). André Previn , who works here as orchestra conductor, has been honored four times.
- Special effects technicians A. Arnold Gillespie and Warren Newcombe also came to the set with an Oscar award. Together they won three Oscars in 1945, 1948 and 1953. Gillespie won another one in 1960 and received a special Oscar in 1964.
Prohibition and release in the Federal Republic
The voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (FSK) initially banned the film because it contained "a glorification of military acts". In its audit report of April 25, 1950, the FSK's working committee found that Malaya was making “our efforts to bring about a responsible clarification of the current political situation more difficult - in such a way that an injustice that had occurred would be recognized”. The film could give nourishment and motivation to resentments through inappropriate comparisons and act as a detonator. The verdict is not a final one, but “to be understood in terms of our current political situation.” The premiere in Germany did not take place until August 9, 1955.
literature
- Jürgen Kniep: “No youth approval!”. Film censorship in West Germany 1949-1990 , Wallstein Verlag Göttingen 2010 ISBN 978-3-8353-0638-7
Web links
- Malaya in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Review by Derek Adams (Time Out) in English
- Movie posters from Germany, USA, Spain and France