The frozen limits

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Movie
Original title The frozen limits
Country of production Great Britain
original language English
Publishing year 1939
length 84 minutes
Rod
Director Marcel Varnel
script Marriott Edgar
Val Guest
I. OC Orton
production Edward Black
music Louis Levy
camera Arthur Crabtree (b / w)
cut RE Dearing
occupation

The Frozen Limits is a British Western - comedy from 1939. The slapstick film with the six-strong British comedy troupe The Crazy Gang was by Marcel Varnel staged and not listed in the German-speaking world.

action

The group of 'Six Wonder Boys' perform with their songs at a fairground event, where the audience only has eyes for the 'Hula Hula Girls' dancing across the street. Since the boys do not generate any income, they flee to the Yukon before the stalking of their landlady and the fair organizer .

Unfortunately, they get there forty years after the gold rush, which doesn't stop them from looking for the precious metal. After adventures with Indians, they come to a ghost town where the crazy Tom Tiddler lives alone. He knows about gold and reveals the location of the find while sleepwalking, which also calls the local villain on the scene; Bill McGrew wants to see the Wonder Boys hanging. Through their stage experience, the heroes can create all sorts of incredible situations and eliminate the dangers.

criticism

The film was received consistently positively, according to Hal Erickson . In comparison to other works by the Crazy Gang, Matthew Coniam calls the film "noticeably restrained in the narrative, but nevertheless full of memorable scenes."

Remarks

The film starred by the members of "Crazy Gang" was the British box office hit of 1940. Graham Greene described it as the funniest English film ever made.

The songs to be heard in the film are "Always getting your man" and "Hi Ho" from Walt Disney's cartoon Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) . The gang parodies the latter in a short scene.

As with Alastair Sim in the Crazy Gang predecessor Alf's Button Afloat (1938), Moore Marriott is a top-class comedian who threatens to steal the show time and again from the six main actors. Marriott specialized in the portrayal of lively, eccentric old men and as such was best known from the films Will Hays and Arthur Askeys .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Review in the NY Times
  2. ↑ http://www.chortle.co.uk/features/2007/09/10/5765/crazy_about_the_gang
  3. ↑ Anthony Aldgate, Jeffrey Richards. Britain can take it: British cinema in the Second World War. 2007, p. 79
  4. ↑ quoted from: Geoff Mayer: Guide to the British cinema. 2003, p. 144