Playing with Fate (1945)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Play with fate |
| Original title | Saratoga Trunk |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1945 |
| length | 115 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Sam Wood |
| script | Casey Robinson |
| production |
Hal B. Wallis for Warner Bros. |
| music | Max Steiner |
| camera | Ernest Haller |
| cut | Ralph Dawson |
| occupation | |
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Playing with Destiny is an American adventure film directed by Sam Wood in 1945 . The script is based on the novel of the same name by Edna Ferber . In Germany, the film was first shown in cinemas on February 24, 1950. It appeared in Germany at times under the title Abrechnung in Saratoga .
action
Clio Dulaine, the illegitimate daughter of a Creole aristocrat and a French woman, returned to New Orleans in 1875 . She wants revenge for the bad treatment of her mother by her father and his family. Years earlier, her mother had killed her father trying to prevent her from committing suicide. Thereupon mother and daughter were sent into exile in Paris . The mulatto Angelique and her dwarf servant Cupidon are friends with Clio.
While searching for the Dulaines, Clio meets the Texan Clint Maroon at a market. Both feel something for each other. Clint offers her his chauffeur service, but Angelique pulls Clio away from him. Clio, Angelique and Cupidon have breakfast in a restaurant that the Dulaines visit every Sunday. Across from the head waiter, Clio poses as a relative and takes a seat at the reserved table. The Dulaines come, recognize her because of the resemblance to her mother, and leave the restaurant. Clio meets the Texan again, who this time brings her home. Soon he will move into her house. Both pursue their plans for revenge, because Clint also wants revenge. His father was ruined by a railroad company.
Clio tries again and again to run into the Dulaines to sabotage her half-sister Charlotte's debutante ball. Clint becomes increasingly annoyed and leaves Clio to go to Saratoga Springs . The Dulaines can no longer endure Clio's constant disturbance, pay her $ 10,000, demolish Clio's mother's house, and pay for a funeral in the New Orleans cemetery. Clio now also moves to Saratoga to marry the railroad worker Bartholomew Van Steed. Her arrival with Angelique and Cupidon sparked an uproar. The hotel is occupied; Clint, who now calls himself Colonel Maroon, offers Clio two rooms in his suite. He confides in Clio that Van Steed is the owner of the Saratoga Trunk company , which has become a million dollar company due to the transportation of coal. Competitor Raymond Soule, who ruined Clint's father, is trying to take over this company.
From then on, Clio poses as a French count widow. Doubters are soothed by Mrs. Bellop, a lady of town society. Van Steed's attention is drawn to Clio's beauty and its tragic story. In the meantime, Clint offers himself as a troubleshooter for Van Steed, who should involve him in the company. Clio finds out that Clint is doing the dirty work for Van Steed and sends him away disappointed. Van Steed has found out about Clio's real life, but he still wants to marry her. Clint and Cupidon burst in at a costume ball. Both were injured in a skirmish with Soule's men. Clio treats both of them and realizes that she loves the Texan more and that no one else could marry. Clint tells her that his action against Soule saved Van Steed's society. He is now a very rich man because of his shares.
Reviews
"The film reduces the historically and socially critically well-founded novel to a well-acted adventure story."
Awards
- Nomination for Best Supporting Actress for Flora Robson
background
With an estimated budget of $ 1.75 million, Warner Bros. production in the United States grossed $ 4.2 million. The film was shot between February and July 1943. Due to the abundance of war films at the time, the film did not come out until 1945.
Before Florence Bates got into film, she was the first female lawyer in Texas in 1914, at age 26. Born in Berlin, Curt Bois came to Hollywood in the mid-1930s and became a respected film actor there. Another employee of German descent on the set was Carl Jules Weyl , who was born in Stuttgart and was the art director for this film. The director of the second unit was the later star director Don Siegel . The special effects come from the Oscar-winning Lawrence W. Butler . The musical director of the film was Leo F. Forbstein .
Web links
- Playing with the fate of the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Critique of Variety
- Review in the Classic Film Guide (English)
literature
- Edna Ferber: Saratoga Trunk - English edition - Harper Collins, 2000 - ISBN 0-06-095671-2
Individual evidence
- ↑ Playing with Fate. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed April 22, 2017 .
- ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038053/business