Never again New York

Movie
German title	Never again New York
Original title	The out-of-towners
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	1970
length	98 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Arthur Hiller
script	Neil Simon
production	Paul Nathan
music	Quincy Jones
camera	Andrew Laszlo
cut	Fred A. Chulack
occupation
	Jack Lemmon : George Kellerman; Sandy Dennis : Gwen Kellerman; Sandy Baron : Lenny Moyers; Anne Meara : victim of handbag robbery; Ron Carey : Boston taxi driver; Graham Jarvis : mugger; Thalmus Rasulala : Policeman; Carlos Montalbán : Manuel Vargas; Johnny Brown : Waiter on the train; Anthony Holland : Night Porter; Dolph Sweet : Sergeant Kavalefski; Jon Korkes : Burglar; Robert Nichols : Passenger; Ann Prentiss : Stewardess; Phil Bruns : Officer Meyers; Richard Libertini : Freight Worker in Boston;

Never Again New York (original title The Out-of-Towners ) is an American comedy directed by Arthur Hiller from 1970. The screenplay was written by Neil Simon based on his play.

action

George Kellerman, of a small town in Ohio, has been proposed for the post of Vice President of New York after many years of service. Full of plans, George travels to the metropolis for an interview with his wife Gwen. He pictured everything so beautifully and wants to spend two wonderful days in Manhattan with his wife.

But the plane is diverted to Boston due to fog. At first your luggage doesn't arrive by plane and then the last night train to New York drives away from you. You reach the totally overcrowded train at the next station at the last minute, but then you have to find out after your arrival that all public transport in New York is on strike. When they walk to the Waldorf-Astoria hotel at two o'clock in the morning , their room is already taken and nothing else is free.

A friendly stranger promises to take her to another hotel, but robbed her on a dark side street. The police offer to drive them to an emergency shelter, but on the way the police car is called for a break-in, stolen by the burglars with the Kellermanns in the back seat and used as an escape vehicle. Eventually the gangsters release her in Central Park. They spend the night there without money or papers. A stranger steals George's watch while he was sleeping.

The next morning they eat biscuits from the garbage can because they are so hungry and George breaks a tooth on them. When they meet a little boy in the park, Gwen desperately wants to comfort him. The two of them wonder if the boy might have phone money in his pocket. Since George does not want to fumble around in the boy's pants in public, he decides to go with the boy behind a bush. Suddenly, George is mistaken for a sex offender who is molesting children , and they flee the park.

When they want to seek solace in a church because of their grief, they are thrown out because there are rehearsals for a television broadcast. Finally, a steam heating pipe explodes under a manhole cover right next to George, so that George can hardly hear anything.

A foreign diplomat finally takes them with him in his car. However, you end up with him in the middle of a demonstration. Finally they reach their hotel, where their luggage has even arrived in the meantime. But George has lost the key to his suitcase to Murray, the robber from the previous evening. Completely overtired, unshaven and in a dirty suit, he appears just in time for the interview. People didn't expect him to come because of the strikes in town, and miraculously, he gets the job. Much to the delight of his wife, however, he decides differently because he realizes that New York is not for him. They fly home relieved. The machine is kidnapped to Cuba ...

background

In 1999 a remake with Steve Martin and Goldie Hawn was filmed. The new version had the same title in the USA as the original ("The Out-of-Towners"), the German title is Schlaflos in New York .