Black Friday (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Black Friday |
| Original title | Black Friday |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1940 |
| length | 70 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Arthur Lubin |
| script |
Curt Siodmak , Eric Taylor |
| production | Burt Kelly |
| music |
Frank Skinner , Hans J. Salter |
| camera | Elwood Bredell |
| cut | Philip Cahn |
| occupation | |
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Black Friday is an American horror film , a so-called universal horror , by Arthur Lubin , directed in 1939. The film premiered on February 29, 1940 in Chicago. In Germany, the film was shown for the first time on June 9, 1973 as a television premiere on ARD .
action
Dr. Ernest Sovac is set to be executed in the electric chair for the murder of his friend Professor George Kingsley. He gives his diary to a reporter who reads the story of the criminal case.
On Friday the 13th, Professor Kingsley was hit by a car driven by criminal Red Cannon. Kingsley is seriously injured, as is Cannon. To save his friend's life, Dr. Sovac gave the dying Cannon brain cells and transplanted them into Kingsley's injured brain. After Kingsley is well again, his wife Margaret notices that the formerly calm husband is prone to frenzy.
Sovac reads in the newspaper that the late Cannon hid half a million US dollars. He brings his friend Kingsley to New York to places where Cannon has worked. He wants to use the implanted brain cells of the criminal to stimulate the memory so that Kingsley leads him to the money. Sovac wants to use the money to build a hospital. Cannon's personality and the criminal's memories pass over to Kingsley. But now he wants to get revenge on his former gang members Eric Marney, William Kane, Louis Devore and Frank Miller.
After killing Devore, Kingsley jumps between his own personality and Cannon's personality. Sovac is slowly losing control of his patient, but he continues. Cannon's personality leads Kingsley to kill Kane too. He is wounded by police officers. Back at the hotel, he meets his wife and Sovac's daughter Jean. She, realizing the truth about her father's experiments, refuses to go back home.
The following night, Kingsley finds Cannons money, kills Marney and Miller, and also Sunny Rogers, Cannon's girlfriend. The Kingsleys and the Sovacs return to Newcastle. Kingsley leads a choir there, but when a siren sounds outside, Cannon's personality takes over again. He goes to the Sovacs' house and attacks Jean there. Sovac is forced to kill his friend in order to save his daughter's life.
When the reporter finishes reading, Dr. Sovac executed in the electric chair.
background
Universal Pictures' B production had an estimated budget of $ 125,750 as director Lubin did not adhere to the 8-hour workday, which was $ 5,000 below the budget granted by the production studio. The shooting of this film took just under three weeks.
Actually, Bela Lugosi was in favor of the role of Dr. Sovac and Boris Karloff earmarked for the role of Prof. Kingsley. Karloff's portrayal of the gangster, however, did not meet the director's expectations, he was replaced by Stanley Ridges. Karloff got the role of Sovac, and Lugosi had to be content with the smaller role of Frank Marney. This made this film one of the two of eight films with Lugosi and Karloff in which there was no common scene between the two.
The later two-time Oscar winner Russell A. Gausman was responsible for setting the film. Special effects designer John P. Fulton later won the Oscar three times. In the year this film was made, sound engineer Bernard B. Brown won an Oscar. The composer Charles Previn, who wrote several pieces of accompanying music for this film, has already received an Oscar.
synchronization
A dubbed version was made in 1972 by Berliner Synchron . Dietmar Behnke directed the dubbing, Ruth Leschin was responsible for the dialogue script.
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Dr. Ernest Sovac | Boris Karloff | Siegfried Schürenberg |
| Prof. George Kingsley | Stanley Ridges | Ernst Wilhelm Borchert |
| Jean Sovac | Anne Gwynne | Dagmar Biener |
| Eric Marnay | Bela Lugosi | Holger Kepich |
| Sunny Rogers | Anne Nagel | Marianne Lutz |
| Margaret Kingsley | Virginia Brissac | Inge Estate |
| Frank Miller | Edmund MacDonald | Guido Weber |
| William Kane | Paul Fix | Friedrich G. Beckhaus |
| Bellhop | Murray Alper | Wolfgang Draeger |
| Fat man in bar | Frank Jaquet | Gerhard Schinschke |
| Police chief | Joe King | Hans W. Hamacher |
| Prison chaplain | Frank Sheridan | Walter Tappe |
Reviews
“A horror piece that the Doctors Jekyll and Frankenstein fused into one personality and combined with an exciting gangster story. Very cleverly staged and carried by grandiose main actors. "
Web links
- Black Friday in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information on imdb.com
- ^ Boyarsky: The Films of Bela Lugosi. 1980.
- ^ Black Friday in the voice actor database
- ↑ Black Friday. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .