To Paris for love
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | To Paris for love |
| Original title | To Paris with Love |
| Country of production | United Kingdom |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1955 |
| length | 80 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Robert Hamer |
| script | Robert Buckner |
| production | Antony Darnborough |
| music | Edwin Astley |
| camera | Reginald Wyer |
| cut | Anne V. Coates |
| occupation | |
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After Paris for Love, is a 1955 British comedy film directed by Robert Hamer and starring Alec Guinness .
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The tradition-conscious Scottish Colonel Sir Edgar Fraser has been widowed for some time and is just as solo as his son John. He thinks it is time to change something about this situation and that John should finally get to know someone outside of the aristocratic circles. When Edgar and John travel together to Paris, “the city of love”, the officer immediately starts looking for a suitable wife. At first he has no idea that his son is planning exactly the same thing for him and that he finally wants to put the tartan father under the hood again. John thinks that the attractive widow Sylvia Gilbert would be just the right person for Mr. Papa. Sir Edgar has also found what he is looking for and has spied out the charming young Frenchwoman Lizette Marconne for his filius. Fate, however, wants things not to go exactly as the two cultured Scots imagined, especially since the two women are not so easy to couple with someone.
After several entanglements, the threads come together in the chic country estate of the French aristocratic family de Colville: There it turns out that the daughter of the house, Suzanne de Colville, is in love with John, which is a problem because John is in the meantime of all people fell in love with the woman he intended for his father, namely Sylvia! Suzanne still imagines good chances, as she realizes very quickly that the thing between John and Sylvia was just a fleeting, little flirtation. Edgar, in turn, has the same thing happened to Lizette: he fell in love with the much younger girl, his future daughter-in-law! But his experience quickly tells him that this could not end well, and both remain as good friends. In the end, the junior finds his queen of hearts, who takes him out of the golden cage of a Scottish castle, while father Edgar gradually becomes friends with the idea of entering into a relationship with Sylvia.
Production notes
After Paris for the sake of love , also known under the secondary title In Love in Paris , was composed in Great Britain and France (Paris) in 1954 and premiered in London on January 11, 1955. The German premiere took place on May 8, 1959. German TV premiere was on July 13, 1988 on Sat.1 .
Earl St. John took over the production management. Maurice Carter designed the film structures, Terence Marsh worked for him as a draftsman. Muir Mathieson was a conductor.
useful information
After The Strange Ways of Father Brown , this comedy was Guinness' second cinematic foray into France in no time.
synchronization
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Col. Sir Edgar Fraser | Alec Guinness | Siegfried Schürenberg |
| Lizette Marconne | Odile Versois | Ruth Siegmeier |
| John Fraser | Vernon Gray | Gerd Vespermann |
| Sylvia Gilbert | Élina Labourdette | Gertrud Meyen |
| Victor de Colville | Jacques François | Wolf Rahtjen |
| Leon de Colville | Austin Trevor | Curt Ackermann |
| Aristide Marconnet | Jacques Brunius | Wolfgang Engels |
| Pierre | Michael Anthony | Hermann Lenschau |
Reviews
In its June 3, 1959 edition, Der Spiegel wrote: “Alec Guinness drives as a Scottish aristocrat in a classic, stiff-ironed Rolls-Royce towards the Seine city: to train his dumb rural son (Vernon Gray) there in courtship. This starting position gives Guinness the theatrically grateful opportunity to approach the love object chosen for the son (Odile Versois) himself and within the limits of his age, to nourish measured hope and finally to give up with decency. In doing so, he finds himself in luxuriously furnished scenes, delightfully oscillating between the respectable person and the comical figure, in a series of situations that his favorite director Robert Hamer has worked out into all sorts of thoughtful and harmless jokes. "
Allmovie.com called the film a "lively British romantic comedy."
In RadioTimes you can read: “A lovable, carefree exercise in the post-war period, in which Alec Guinness and Vernon Gray as father and son outbid each other in regularity and plan amorous adventures for the other. The following complications are enlivened by Guinness' captivating performance ... Both the leading lady, the beautiful Odile Versois, and Paris herself are in delightful technicolor in the mid-1950s, and this film, if negligible, is often shamefully underrated. "
The Lexicon of International Films says: “Charming comedy with light-handed punchlines; played excellently. "
The Movie & Video Guide said this “sosolala comedy should amuse Guinness fans and Francophiles”.
Halliwell's Film Guide panned the strip with the words "Thin, disappointing nonsense that is short but seems long".
Individual evidence
- ↑ After Paris for love in the German dubbing index
- ↑ To Paris because of love in: Der Spiegel 23/1959
- ↑ Review on Allmovie.com
- ↑ criticism on radiotimes.com
- ↑ To Paris for love. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 1, 2020 .
- ^ Leonard Maltin : Movie & Video Guide, 1996 edition, p. 1356
- ^ Leslie Halliwell : Halliwell's Film Guide, Seventh Edition, New York 1989, p. 1036
Web links
- To Paris with Love in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- To Paris with Love on Turner Classic Movies