For officers only
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | For officers only |
| Original title | The Americanization of Emily |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1964 |
| length | 114 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Arthur Hiller |
| script | Paddy Chayefsky |
| production | Martin Ransohoff |
| music | Johnny Almond |
| camera | Philip H. Lathrop |
| cut | Tom McAdoo |
| occupation | |
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For officers only (Original title: The Americanization of Emily ) is an American tragic comedy from 1964, which takes place against the backdrop of the Allied invasion of Normandy in 1944. James Garner plays the American soldier Charlie Madison, who is stylized as an unwilling hero. Julie Andrews stars as a war widow that Madison falls in love with. The script is based on the novel of the same name by William Bradford Huie.
action
London just before the Allied invasion of Normandy . Lieutenant Commander Charlie Madison is the orderly to Rear Admiral Jessup. Madison specializes in supplying the upper echelons of the Navy with luxury goods. However, he is also an outright coward, which he also admits. He falls almost imperceptibly in love with Emily Barham. The Englishwoman works for the Navy as a driver. She lost her husband and brother in the war. Admiral Jessup is convinced that the Army has a better image than the Navy. He's obsessed with the idea that the first soldier to be killed in the invasion is a Navy seaman. So he assigns Madison and his best friend, Lieutenant Commander Cummings, to document the invasion with a film camera. Madison's protests upset Emily too.
For the documentary, Madison is forced to be the first soldier on Omaha Beach . As he runs through the hail of bullets, he steps on a German mine that explodes. Reports say he was the first to fall in the invasion. Pictures of a corpse are shown in the newspapers. Madison is made a war hero. Lieutenant Cummings, who took the pictures, is proud to have created a hero. But it turns out a little later that Madison survived. The reports in the newspapers make him angry, and he even threatens to make his cowardice public. Emily promises to marry him if he keeps his secret to himself.
background
The US premiere took place on October 27, 1964. In Germany, the film first appeared in cinemas on December 25 of the same year.
Filming locations for the production of MGM were London and the British MGM studios in Borehamwood / Hertfordshire . The scenes of the Omaha Beach invasion were filmed on Mandalay Beach in California.
Julie Andrews, nominated for the BAFTA Award, was nominated for three films in 1965, in addition to this film also for My Songs - My Dreams and Darling , for which she also received the award.
Reviews
The lexicon of the international film about the film: "US comedy that seeks to expose hollow heroism and makes use of rather blatant means."
Bosley Crowther of the New York Times found in the film "some of the wildest, boldest and funniest situations in the madness of war ever shown on the big screen."
prisma.de judged: “Arthur Hiller's comedy uses crass dramatic means to expose hollow heroism. Julie Andrews and James Garner's cool, ironic love affair is particularly worth seeing. Almost two decades before their great global success Victor / Victoria (1981) they played together in this comedic reckoning with a false hero cult. "
Awards
In 1965 the film won an Oscar in the categories of Best Camera (b / w) and Best Production Design (b / w) ( Hans Dreier , Hans O. Peters , George W. Davis, Elliot Scott, Robert R. Benton, Henry Grace) nominated. Another nomination was the British Film Academy Award for Julie Andrews in the category Best British Actress .
At the Laurel Award ceremony , the film came second in the category of Best Drama and James Garner came in second for Best Actor, and Melvyn Douglas came in fifth for Best Supporting Actor.
Web links
- Only for officers in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ For officers only. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ For officers only at movies.nytimes, review Bosley Crowther, New York Times
- ↑ For officers only. In: prisma.de. prisma-Verlag , accessed on August 31, 2017 .