The whole point (movie)

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Movie
German title The point
Original title Pigskin Parade
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1936
length 93 minutes
Rod
Director David Butler
script William M. Conselman
Harry Virtue
Jack Yellen
production Darryl F. Zanuck
music David Buttolph
camera Arthur C. Miller
cut Irene Morra
occupation

The whole point (original title: Pigskin Parade ) is an American comedy film from 1936 by David Butler .

action

Charge of Yale University invite for a football match by mistake instead of the University of Texas , the Texas State University one. This team has a new East Coast coach, Slug Winters, but whose wife Bessier is the head of the family. The students attribute the unexpected invitation to the call of the new coach. Yale cannot cancel the invitation. Therefore, the advertising expert Sparks is supposed to make the game a match between David and Goliath.

Bessie realizes that the state team is made up of basketball players. She convinces her husband to let the attacks go through the passing game, initiated by the star of the team Biff Bentley. The team then scored three victories. At a victory celebration, there is an accident in which the drunk Bessie breaks the Star Biff's leg. To make up for the damage, Bessie travels to Fort Smith to bring a new player to the team. There she learns, however, that the chosen player is already with the Yale team.

On the way back, Bessie takes the students Chip and Laura with her. They stop at a melon stall. Bessie watches young Amos Dodd throw melons at his sister Sairy. Bessie convinces the siblings to come to Texas State University. There Amos can impress the team with his skills. However, since the university administration does not want to accept Amos as a student, Chip hatches a plan with his friends. Amos is supposed to pretend to be the new student Herbert Can Dyke. The real Herbert is currently spending 60 days in jail.

With Amos on the team, Texas State University continues to win. Sally Saxon, the university vamp, shows interest in Amos, but when she gets a jewel bracelet from wealthy Mortimer Higgens, she drops Amos. Amos suffers from the separation and wants to leave university. Bessie gets Slug to flirt with Sally. She then threatens Sally to take the matter to the divorce judge and make her name public in the affair if she continues to reject Amos.

The team travels by train to the match against Yale. After a touchdown from Amos, Texas State takes the lead 6-0. But the cold is causing problems for the team. In the fourth period of the game, Yale takes the lead 7-6. Time is working against Texas State. Slug is knocked out on the sidelines by a mishap, so Bessie has to take command. For the last move she sends Amos back to the field, who wants to play barefoot so that he can feel the earth between his toes. Amos overflows the opposing defense and creates the decisive touchdown.

background

The 20th Century Fox production was premiered in the USA on October 23, 1936. In Germany, the film opened on July 20, 1937; in Austria, the film was shown in cinemas in 1938.

Thomas Little was responsible for the set design for the film and Hans O. Peters was the art director.

Alan Ladd can be seen as a student and Lynn Bari as a spectator in small supporting roles not mentioned in the credits . Judy Garland, 14 years old at the time of filming, made her feature film debut. Garland was loaned to MGM for this film . It was the only time in Garland's career that her studio had loaned her. Although Stuart Erwin topped the cast list, he got his Oscar nomination for the newly introduced Best Supporting Actor category because viewers and critics viewed Jack Haley as the lead actor.

Reviews

Frank S. Nugent of the New York Times wrote that with the likes of Patsy Kelly, Stuart Erwin, and Jack Haley, the film could be considered one of the best entertainments of the season.

Awards

Stuart Erwin received a 1937 Oscar nomination for best supporting actor .

Soundtrack

The songs in the film were composed by Sidney D. Mitchell (melody) and Lew Pollack (text) as well as by the band The Yacht Club Boys . Mitchell and Pollack wrote the songs It's Love I'm After (sung by Judy Garland), The Balboa (Garland), The Texas Tornado (Garland), You Do the Darndest Things, Baby (Jack Haley), You're Slightly Terrific (Tony Martin) and TSU Alma Mater (instrumental). The band controlled the songs We'd Rather Be in College , Down With Everything , Woo! Woo! , We Brought the Texas Sunshine Here With Us and Football Song , which they also performed themselves.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Illustrated Film-Kurier No. 2658
  2. ↑ See German title and German premiere on moviepilot.de
  3. ↑ See article on tcm.com
  4. ↑ See information in the Judy Garland database
  5. ^ Frank S. Nugent : 'Pigskin Parade,' a Seasonal Musical Comedy, Opens At the Roxy . In: The New York Times , November 14, 1936.