Great pike on a crooked tour
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Great pike on a crooked tour |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1961 |
| length | 96 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Akos from Ratony |
| script |
Milton Krims Alexander Badal based on the factual report of the same name by Heinz Groß and Egon G. Schleinitz |
| production |
Harold Nebenzal Alfred Strauss for Astra |
| music | Herbert Jarczyk |
| camera | Ernst W. Kalinke |
| cut | Anneliese Schönnenbeck |
| occupation | |
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Toller Hecht auf Krummer Tour is a German feature film by Akos von Ratony from 1961 with Michael Hinz in the leading and title role.
action
Little Helmut Krauss never got to know a real home. His parents were killed in a bomb attack during World War II. During the Berlin blockade , Captain Smith of the US Air Force, stationed in Berlin, takes the orphan into his heart and takes care of him as best he can. When the airlift ends in 1949, he wants to adopt him. But suddenly Smith is transferred to Korea and Helmut is given away to a farming family in Bavaria . There the boy is unhappy, especially since he is wrongly suspected of stealing money and his assertions that he is innocent are not believed. After all, Helmut even has to serve a sentence in juvenile prison. After six years he is finally released.
Helmut has now become a young man. He only has one more wish: to get out of Germany and to the USA as soon as possible to build a new life there. But as a criminal, he is not allowed to enter the country. He remembers the time with his former protector, Captain Smith. Helmut then procures a complete US uniform in an American barracks and the pay book of a certain McNulty. Helmut even manages to get into the area of the Rhein-Main Airport , which is cordoned off for Germans and civilians , in the hope of being able to get to America by plane. Sergeant Harrigan, who is stationed at the airport and whom Helmut has to pass by, can tell a credible story so that he can let Helmut pass.
The only thing left between himself and his future in the United States is the necessary passenger pass, which Helmut has to organize. Without further ado he forges a marching order in the name of the pay book owner McNulty. He almost gets away with it when suddenly the real McNulty shows up. Helmut is arrested, tried in a US military court - and acquitted. Because, so the reason: If the US Army is so deceived by a civilian, it is their own fault. Helmut, the “great pike”, now decides to stay in Germany and to return to the side of his childhood sweetheart Inge, for whom he was wrongly imprisoned.
production
The film had its German premiere on December 19, 1961 in Kaiserslautern .
Toller Pike on a crooked tour is the only trip to Germany by the Hollywood actor of the 40s and 50s, William Bendix , who is subscribed to beefy and powerful types .
Hans Sohnle designed the film structures, Herbert Ploberger the costumes.
criticism
The lexicon of the international film judged: "The inconsistent story, which wants to celebrate the German-American friendship with its theme and cast, is silting up between the many follies that pile up on Helmut's zigzag path [...]."
The Movie & Video Guide wrote about the film, which was shown in the USA under the title The Phony American : "Strange casting is more interesting than tale of a German WW2 orphan, now grown up, wishing to become an American, and a US air force pilot ".
Web links
- Toller Hecht on monkey business in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Great pike on a crooked tour at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Klaus Brüne (Red.): Lexikon des Films Volume 8, S. 3842. Reinbek near Hamburg 1987.
- ^ Leonard Maltin : Movie & Video Guide, 1996 edition, p. 1012