Malcolm (film)

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Movie
German title Malcolm
Original title Malcolm
Country of production Australia
original language English
Publishing year 1986
length 90 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Nadia Tass
script David Parker
production Bryce Menzies , David Parker , Timothy White
music Paul Coppens , Simon Jeffes Penguin Cafe Orchestra
camera David Parker
cut Ken Sallows
occupation

Malcolm is an Australian comedy thriller from the year 1986 .

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Malcolm Hughes , in his mid-thirties, is a shy and bizarre outsider, additionally blessed with childish naivete. He has lived alone in a house since his mother's death and goes out very rarely. Instead, he constructs bizarre and crazy gadgets - partly from conventional everyday objects - that make life easier for the mechanically gifted mechanical genius. For example, he has his morning milk delivered by a remote-controlled car.

After building his own tram , Malcolm also loses his job with the Melbourne Transport Authority . As a result, he withdraws more and more - but soon realizes that he can no longer pay his bills due to the lack of wages. In search of a new source of income, he comes across Frank Baker and his girlfriend Judith , whom he takes in as a subtenant. Frank has just been released from prison. Malcolm, who is fascinated by the gangster couple, joins them without further ado and begins a criminal career.

Supported by Malcolm's inventions and Frank's reputation as a crook, the trio plans to rob a bank. Although there are internal tensions, u. a. triggered by an affair between Judith and Malcolm and tensions between the completely different men, the three pull off the coup. Thanks to Malcolm's constructions such as moving ashtrays, shooting toy cars and remote-controlled garbage cans, the trio can finally escape with a million-dollar loot and start a new life.

Trivia

  • Malcolm was the first work of director Nadia Tass and was made in and around Melbourne. Although the film was made at a cost of only $ 1 million to produce, that sum was difficult to raise. After Australian television and the production company Victoria had already pledged funds, Nadia Tass peddled a remote-controlled robot to another possible donor. As a joke, the robot kept this in check with a toy gun in order to "blackmail" the release of funds. After this contribution, the amused man shared in the production costs that Tass thus had together.
  • Charles Tingwell , who plays the streetcar supervisor, celebrated his greatest successes with the Miss Marple films in the 1960s with Margaret Rutherford , where he played the hard-working Inspector Craddock .
  • The tram built by Malcolm consisted of a moped engine and parts of the tram . After filming was over, the vehicle was donated to the Melbourne Tram Museum, where it can still be viewed today.
  • The yellow getaway car from the bank robbery, a converted Honda Z 360, which could be split in half , disappeared without a trace after filming. It did not reappear until the late 1990s after a man who had bought a furnished house in Melbourne found it in the garage that belonged to the house.
  • For the final shot, which takes place in Lisbon , only John Hargreaves actually went to the Portuguese capital. You can see him coming out of a local bank and crossing the street. The following scene, in which he takes a seat with Malcolm and Judith in a café, was shot again in downtown Melbourne (which the experienced observer will also notice because the trams and cars are on the "wrong" side).
  • The film's remote-controlled car is a Tamiya Sand Scorcher (model number 58016).

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