Pot o 'gold
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Pot o 'gold |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1941 |
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| Director | George Marshall |
| script | Walter DeLeon |
| production |
James Roosevelt for United Artists |
| music | Lou Forbes |
| camera | Hal Mohr |
| cut | Lloyd Nosler |
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Pot o 'Gold is a 1941 American comedy film directed by George Marshall .
content
Jimmy Haskell runs a small, poorly-performing musical instrument store, preferring to let the poor neighborhood kids practice on the instruments rather than sell them. He receives a visit from his uncle Charlie, a wealthy grocery manufacturer who is once again trying in vain to get his nephew interested in the company. Jimmy, however, prefers the simple but happy life that his late father led. Only an announced seizure of business lets him take the way to his uncle.
On the street he meets Molly McCorkle, who entrusts him with her shopping bags unseen and to whom he therefore carries the purchases home. The mix-up clears up at the front door - Molly thought he belonged to her brother who went shopping with her. Jimmy, in turn, listens in amazement to the big band music coming from the apartment. Molly's mother Ma McCorkle offers accommodation to a band around Horace Heidt , which also holds rehearsals here in the backyard. What makes residents happy is a daily nuisance for Jimmy's music-hating Uncle Charlie, whose study is right behind the McCorkles' house. Since Charlie wanted to buy the McCorkles' house to expand his company, but the McCorkles refused, the McCorkles now have a double pleasure in teasing him with music. When the police arrive on behalf of Charlie to end the music, Jimmy, animated by Molly, throws a tomato at the music-hater and then realizes with a start that he has just met his rich uncle. Jimmy is arrested without his uncle recognizing him. Molly doesn't know about Jimmy's relationship to Charlie either. At the trial, Jimmys is adjourned by a judge who is benevolent of him. Jimmiy is released on bail that Molly has in store. Charlie is late for the trial, berates the judge and is sentenced to a fine or 50 days in prison. Since he cannot pay, he has no money with him, he is taken to prison. There he meets Jimmy in an open-plan cell, who accidentally got into a prison truck on the way out of the courtroom.
While Jimmy is released, as the mistake is cleared up, Charlie remains with a group of music-loving inmates who force him, who is completely unmusical, to sing along to the song When Johnny toots his horn until it is hoarse. When he finally gets bail with Jimmy's help, he ca n't speak to his regular radio show, The Haskell Happiness Hour , so Jimmy has to stand in for him. Two of the band members hear him on the radio and confront him. He reveals his identity, but asks her not to tell Molly anything. Since Uncle Charlie will be present at the actual legal process, he must be prevented from appearing in court. This would make it impossible for Charlie to recognize Jimmy and for Molly's identity to become known. With a trick, Jimmy and his helpers manage to make Charlie understand that he is suffering from hallucinations . Charlie goes to the mountains of Canada to recover.
With a power of attorney , Jimmy is now starting to redesign The Haskell Happiness Hour . What used to be a boring advertising event has now turned into a glamorous show thanks to the appearance of the band around Horace Heidt with vocals by Molly. During the recording, however, Molly learns that Jimmy is actually Charlie's nephew and, out of revenge, announces live on the radio that the next show will give away $ 1,000. While Charlie hears this on the radio in Canada and makes his way home indignant, Jimmy tries to find a way to give away the money. According to state regulations, it may not take the form of a lottery , not even via a lottery procedure or a public decision. If Jimmy gave the money improperly, he could face jail, but even if he did not give it, he would have to go to jail for misleading the audience. At the last second he finds a way out: he organizes all the country's telephone books. He uses a dial "borrowed" from a fair to determine the first number that indicates the phone book volume, the next number is the page number and the last number is the phone number on the page whose owner receives the money.
The audience is enthusiastic and the station's advertising partners are also scrambling for the show and are now offering Charlie, who has come home, thousands of dollars for the idea. Since Charlie's secretary has made sure that the rights for the show belong to Molly and the band for fear of possible losses, Charlie announces on the microphone that Molly and Jimmy will now always lead through the show and Jimmy explains on the microphone that he is Molly get married, whereupon the couple hug each other.
production
James Stewart was loaned to United Artists by MGM for Pot o 'Gold . In retrospect, he himself described the film as his worst, which was mainly due to Stewart's tense relationship with the leading actress Paulette Goddard. She tensed up on set as soon as the camera was running: "The director George Marshall resigned himself after trying in vain to lure Goddard out of the reserve with the help of different settings, and let Stewart, Winninger and the rest of the crew pay for it." In Pot o 'Gold made Art Carney's film debut in a small role as a radio announcer.
Pot o 'Gold was a film based on the largest US radio contest at the time. The competition, known as Pot o 'Gold , ran from 1939 on NBC . The distribution of profits, also $ 1,000, was done in the same way as shown in the film. The program was musically accompanied by the Horace Heidt band, which also plays a central role in the film. The film hit theaters on April 3, 1943, eight months before the radio broadcast was discontinued. In the UK the film was called The Golden Hour . It was not shown in Germany.
Pot o 'Gold is one of the few films that James Stewart sings in. He interprets the title "When Johnny toots his horn". Other titles included in the film are:
- Hi Cy, What's A-Cookin '?
- Peter, the Piper Man - sung by Paulette Goddard with Horace Heidt & His Musical Knights
- A knife, a fork and a spoon / Bording House, o Bording House - sung by Horace Heidt & His Musical Knights
- Do you believe in fairy tales - sung by Larry Cotton with Horace Heidt & His Musical Knights
- Broadway Caballero - sung by Paulette Goddard with Horace Heidt & His Musical Knights
criticism
"Stewart disliked the film so much that he refused to go to Pot o 'Gold for many years ," and critics panned the film too. She called Pot o 'Gold, among other things, a "rather horrible musical with capraesque social undertones".
Web links
- Pot o 'Gold in the Internet Movie Database (English)