Separate beds
| Movie | |
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| German title | Separate beds |
| Original title | The Wheeler Dealers |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1963 |
| length | 107 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Arthur Hiller |
| script | Ira Wallach |
| production | Martin Ransohoff |
| music | Frank De Vol |
| camera | Charles B. Lang |
| cut | Tom McAdoo |
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Separate Beds (Originally The Wheeler Dealers ) is an American screwball comedy from 1963 with Lee Remick and James Garner in the lead roles. Among other things, it targets the American myth of the self-made millionaire. It was based on the novel by George Goodman .
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Molly Thatcher works as a stock trader in the brokerage firm of Bullard Bear, a boss with an oddly old-fashioned understanding of roles. Since he cannot fire her directly, he assigns her the impossible task of selling shares in the unknown and unproductive company Universal Widgets . The failure seems programmed - reason enough to be able to fire her afterwards without having to fear a lawsuit.
While searching for possible buyers, Molly meets Henry Tyroon, an aggressive, tricky and successful businessman and business man ("Wheeler Dealer"), who appears as a somewhat simple-minded millionaire from Texas. Actually more interested in Molly than in Universal Widget stock, he decides to help. Molly witnesses Henry’s successful business deals, whether it’s investments in modern art, a quickly “improved” eatery or a rented-leased-bought taxi. With the help of three Texans Jay Ray, Ray Jay and JR, he regularly gets the necessary capital to do further successful and paying off business.
Universal Widget remains a mystery, however. The shipyard's only factory building (or wagon factory) burned down during the American Civil War , and the company produces nothing and does not offer any services.
When Henry tries to hit the shares with press releases and puns on similar sounding components of the aerospace industry and at the same time to take over the majority of the company with questionable methods, the stock exchange regulator takes the stage in the form of Hector Vanson. The situation is complicated by the release of Molly, triggered by Jay Ray, Ray Jay, and JR to bring them closer to Henry, who in turn believes Henry is the culprit.
The apparently worthless factory turns out to be a family business, a holding company for old AT&T shares that, bought early and cheaply, ensure profitable dividend payments to shareholders. The case is crushed when, moreover, it turns out that the shares are in the hands of fewer investors, privately owned, and no longer in public trading. Jay Ray, Ray Jay and JR made good money on Henry's business again.
Henry and Molly also win when it turns out Henry's innocence for Molly's release. That the Texan Henry Tyroon actually comes from the east coast and has an excellent university degree, using the dialect only to initiate business, is one of the last punchlines.
criticism
"In places a fun game as a song of praise to the successful people."
Web links
- Twin beds in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual references and sources
- ↑ Separate beds. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- Variety Film Reviews, Sep 25, 1963, p. 6