Sardine Street
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Sardine Street |
| Original title | Cannery Row |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1982 |
| length | 115 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | David S. Ward |
| script | David S. Ward |
| production | Michael Phillips |
| music | Jack Nitzsche |
| camera | Sven Nykvist |
| cut | David Bretherton |
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Sardine Street (Original Title: Cannery Row ) is an American feature film from 1982 . Directed by David S. Ward . The script is based on the books Die Straße der Ölsardinen and Wonniger Thursday by John Steinbeck . The setting is Cannery Row in Monterey , California , where canned fish was produced on a large scale from 1895 to 1945.
action
In the late 1940s the cannery factories of the once thriving Cannery Row closed. What remains are the marine biologist Doc, the homeless Mack with his closest friends Hazel, Hughie, Jones and Eddie; Fauna Flood, owner of the Bear Flag brothel , Ella with her Golden Poppy diner , Joseph, owner of a small shop and the trumpet-playing clairvoyant Max. Suzie DeSoto comes into this microcosm and starts working as a prostitute at Fauna in the brothel. Doc and Suzie quickly find each other interested, Suzie learns from Fauna that Doc used to be the professional baseball player "Eddie the Lightning" and his real name is Ed Daniels.
At a dinner together, Doc tells Suzie that at the age of 22 he hit another player with a ball in the head, after which he ended his career. After an impressive dance number between Doc and Suzie, which the whole street witnessed, Mack decides to throw a party for Doc. Since the friends have no money for this, of course, they ask Doc for a temporary job. Doc assigns them to catch frogs, they sell these frogs to Joseph, who gives them the food for the party. When Doc comes home in the evening, the surprise party starts; As a highlight, Fauna announces that they have rented the Ambassador Suite at the Fairmont Hotel San Francisco so that Suzie Doc can accompany him to his marine biology congress.
The shy Doc reacts dismissively, which annoys Suzie deeply. Suzie and Doc leave the party separately, which takes a nasty turn when the rest of the crowd start a fight with emerging teenagers, devastating Doc's entire laboratory. Suzie then takes a job at Ella's in the diner and lives in a self-converted old tank. Doc tries to propose to her, but Suzie nips it in the bud. The mentally retarded Hazel doesn't want to watch his friend Doc torture himself and try to pair Doc and Suzie. Suzie tells Hazel that she likes Doc and would take care of Doc in the event of illness or a broken arm. One morning Hazel finds the clairvoyant, who lives on the beach, dead; it turns out that he was the player Doc hit in the head at the time. Shortly thereafter, Hazel breaks the sleeping Doc's arm with a baseball bat. Hazel's plan works, Suzie and the injured Doc become a couple.
background
- Sardine Street was the directorial debut of David S. Ward, who won an Oscar in 1974 for the screenplay for The Clou .
- Steinbeck's friend Edward Ricketts served as a model for the figure of Doc . He died in a car accident in 1948 at the age of 50.
- The role of Suzie was originally cast by Raquel Welch , who was surprisingly replaced by Debra Winger, who was 15 years her junior shortly after filming began. The reason given by the studio was that Welch was breaking her contract because she insisted that her hair and makeup be done in her home, not on set. In court seven years later, she won compensation of $ 10 million.
- With a budget of $ 11.3 million, the film only grossed $ 5.3 million.
Web links
- Cannery Row in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bill Higgins: Hollywood Flashback: When Raquel Welch, Fired and Replaced by an Actress 15 Years Younger, Sued MGM (and Won). In: The Hollywood Reporter. December 10, 2015, accessed June 28, 2019 .