His Biggest Bluff (1954)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | His biggest bluff |
| Original title | The Million Pound Note |
| Country of production | Great Britain |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1954 |
| length | 91 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ronald Neame |
| script | Jill Craigie |
| production | John Bryan |
| music | William Alwyn |
| camera | Geoffrey Unsworth |
| cut | Clive Donner |
| occupation | |
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His biggest bluff , also known as Big Money (original title The Million Pound Note ), is a British comedy film from 1954 with Gregory Peck in the lead role. It was based on the short story The Million Pound Bank Note by Mark Twain . The direction was directed by Ronald Neame .
action
The penniless American Henry Adams, stranded in England in 1903, is the subject of a bet by chance. The two equally wealthy and eccentric brothers Oliver and Roderick Montpellier gave him a one million pound banknote for a month, an enormous sum by the standards at the time, to see whether he would be prosperous simply by owning the banknote (without redeeming it) and luck helps what at first seems to succeed.
criticism
“A banknote with a face value of one million pounds opens all doors to a man who is really poor, without even touching capital. Sympathetic and entertaining satire about the power of money that is becoming independent; freely based on the story of Mark Twain. "
"A lively film, infused with happy irony, based on a story by Mark Twain, in which a have-not cleverly handles a 1 million pound note suddenly entrusted to him."
Remarks
As early as 1927, the first film was made in Germany under the direction of Henrik Galeen and Harry Piel with the actors Harry Piel (in a double role), Toni Tetzlaff , Lotte Lorring and in a small role Marlene Dietrich under the title His Greatest Bluff (His Greatest Bluff ), which has nothing in common with the 1954 film apart from the title.
In 1994 there was a remake of the film ( One Million for Juan ) with the comedian Paul Rodriguez , which shifts the plot to the present day and is otherwise quite far from the original.
Mark Twain's short story also served as a template for the 1983 hit comedy The Soldiers of Fortune ( Trading Places ) directed by John Landis, starring Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd .
In 2007 the film was released on DVD under the title Big Money .
synchronization
The film was first dubbed in 1954 in Hamburg, directed by Edgar Flatau . A second synchronization took place in 1985 by DEFA under the direction of Hasso Zorn . The speakers in detail were:
| role | actor | Voice actor 1954 | Voice actor 1985 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Henry Adams | Gregory Peck | Axel Monjé | Ernst Meincke |
| Oliver Montpelier | Ronald Squire | Hans Paetsch | Herbert Köfer |
| Roderick Montpelier | Wilfrid Hyde-White | Ernst Schroeder | Klaus Glowalla |
| Portia Lansdowne | Jane Griffiths | Renate Ewert | Regina Nitzsche |
| Duchess of Cromarty | Joyce Grenfell | Eva Boettcher | Jessy Rameik |
| Duke of Frognal | AE Matthews | Eduard Marks | Joachim Konrad |
| Mr. Reid | Maurice Denham | Erwin Linder | Hans-Joachim Hanisch |
| Lloyd | Brian Oulton | Jochen Braun | Wolfgang Lohse |
| Parsons | John Slater | Werner Schuhmacher | Michael Telloke |
| American ambassador | Wilbur Evans | Heinz Klevenow | |
| Mr. Westerland | Hartley Power | Joachim Ernst | Horst lamp |
| Todd | Bryan Forbes | Ernst Wilhelm Borchert | Herbert Sand |
Footnotes
- ↑ His biggest bluff in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed on May 16, 2011
- ↑ Munich, Review No. 588/1954
- ↑ http://www.synchrondatenbank.de/