Not so fast, my boy

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Movie
German title Not so fast, my boy
Original title Walk don't run
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1966
length 114 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Charles Walters
script Sol Saks
production Sol C. Siegel
music Quincy Jones
camera Harry Stradling Sr.
cut Walter Thompson ,
James D. Wells
occupation
synchronization

Not So Fast, My Boy (Original Title: Walk Don't Run ) is an American comedy film directed by Charles Walters from 1966 with Cary Grant in his final screen role.

action

The British businessman Sir William Rutland travels to Tokyo in 1964 , where the Olympic Games are taking place and all hotel rooms are already occupied. Even the British embassy cannot help him looking for accommodation. There, however, he discovers a leaflet with which a roommate is sought for an apartment. Rutland is on the way immediately. The young tenant of the apartment, Christine Easton, actually wanted a woman to live in and finds it offensive to live with a stranger, but Rutland persuades her to take him in.

The next day, Rutland met the athlete Steve Davis. Steve belongs to the US Olympic team and is also looking for a place to stay. Rutland is helpful and offers to share his room with him, which Christine is anything but enthusiastic about. After she finally agreed to let Steve live with her, Rutland tries to match the young people together, especially since he considers Christine's fiancé, the British diplomat Julius D. Haversack, to be a boring busybody. For this purpose, Rutland even pretends to be an athlete to talk to Steve about Christine while he competes in his discipline, walking .

Meanwhile, a Soviet security officer believes Steve and Christine are spies, which is why they are both arrested. However, Rutland ensures that they are released again. Julius now fears that his diplomatic career will be damaged if it emerges that his fiancée is letting another man live in her apartment. Again it is Rutland who is addressing the problem. He arranges a marriage of convenience between Steve and Christine and manages that both of them spend enough time together to understand their feelings for each other and to confess their mutual love. Rutland then returns to England satisfied.

background

The Okura Hotel in Tokyo , where the film was set

It is a remake of George Stevens 'hit comedy film Always More, Always Happy, from 1943. While Stevens' film takes place against the backdrop of the housing shortage in Washington, DC in the early 1940s, it is in Not So Fast, Mine Boy, the 1964 Summer Olympics , which set the stage for the plot and actually caused a housing emergency in Tokyo . The shooting took place in 1965 on the original locations in Tokyo, where the Hotel Okura served as a backdrop.

For lead actor Cary Grant , Not So Fast My Boy was the last film of his career. Although he was still considered a top star in 1966 and received many role offers, he retired like many other actors of his generation from the film business after shooting was over. At the age of 62, he no longer wanted to play the romantic hero at the side of significantly younger actresses, as he had done in 1963 alongside Audrey Hepburn in the crime comedy Charade . In his opinion, he would only have been eligible for roles as grandfather, which he declined. He was also dissatisfied with the scripts that were sent to him and with the way Hollywood was developing in general. There was also a decisive change in his private life that confirmed his decision never to make films again. His daughter Jennifer was born in February 1966, and from then on he wanted to take care of her intensively.

Not so soon, My Boy premiered in the United States on June 29, 1966 . The film was also released in German cinemas on January 13, 1967.

Reviews

The lexicon of international films called Nicht So Schnell, my boy, “entertainment cinema with humor and irony”. For Cinema the film was “[o] Olympic-like fun with nice running gags”. The Protestant film observer , on the other hand, spoke of an “attempt to polish up an old film material in a modern way”, which, however, “despite Cary Grant only resulted in entertainment that was long to boring”.

Variety found the film "an extremely entertaining, often highly amusing comedy". Cary Grant is "outstanding" in the role of the respected businessman and "at the height of his comedic creativity".

German version

The German dubbed version was created in Berlin in 1966 .

role actor Voice actor
Sir William Rutland Cary Grant Siegfried Schürenberg
Christine Easton Samantha Eggar Loni from Friedl
Steve Davis Jim Hutton Eckart Dux
Julius D. Haversack John Standing Wolfgang Draeger
Aiko Kurawa Miiko Taka Marianne Lutz
Yuri Andreyovitch Ted Hartley Michael Chevalier
Dimitri Ben Astar Hans W. Hamacher
Police captain George Takei Eric Vaessen
Businessman Miyoshi Jingu Gerd Martienzen

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Andrea Passafiume on tcm.com
  2. ↑ Not so fast, my boy. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed October 27, 2019 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ↑ cf. cinema.de
  4. ↑ Protestant film observer . Evangelical Press Association Munich, Review No. 41/1967, p. 62.
  5. ↑ “ Walk Don't Run is a completely entertaining, often hilarious romantic comedy spotlighting as a matchmaker a deliberately mature Cary Grant at the peak of his comedy prowess. [...] Grant is outstanding as the middle-aged and distinguished English industrialist. " See Walk Don't Run . In: Variety , 1966.
  6. ↑ cf. synchrondatenbank.de