Meeting point: Paris!
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Meeting point: Paris! |
| Original title | Now and Forever |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1934 |
| length | 82 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Henry Hathaway |
| script |
Sylvia Thalberg Vincent Lawrence |
| production | Louis D. Lighton |
| music |
Harry Revel Mack Gordon |
| camera | Harry Fischbeck |
| cut | Ellsworth Hoagland |
| occupation | |
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Meeting point: Paris! is a 1934 American film directed by Henry Hathaway and starring Gary Cooper , Carole Lombard and Shirley Temple .
action
Jerry Day and Toni Carstairs are a couple who live their day pretty carefree. As a jewel thief, Jerry does not like to work and is therefore always after "quick money". Both are on the crossing from Shanghai to the USA when Jerry from Connecticut receives the sad news of the death of his wife. Now her parents ask him to take care of their five-year-old daughter Penelope, called "Penny", from now on. This does not fit Jerry into his future life planning, and he is even willing and ready to give Penny to his brother-in-law for $ 75,000. Toni, however, has had enough of life on the road, always worried that one day he will be arrested. Given Jerry's vision of both future, she separates from him for the time being and goes to Paris alone.
Arriving in Connecticut, Jerry soon realizes that it can't be good when his daughter grows up under the thumb of his rigid and strict in-laws. And so he decides to take Penny in and take care of her. First he tells the ignorant that he is their father. Jerry goes to New York with Penny. As he is once again short of cash, he is selling an alleged option on a mine (which is just a hoax) to an older gentleman, Felix Evans, and then travels to Europe with the proceeds, a $ 5,000 check. But Jerry is unlucky, because that same Mr. Evans is also on board the ship. Once in the French capital, Toni gives her partner an ultimatum: either continue as before (but then without her) or settle down with her somewhere. Although Jerry gets a job as a real estate seller and thus finally gets the chance to become honest and settled down, he falls back into the old waters when Felix Evans of all people tells him that he is also a crook. Evans offers to involve Jerry in his plan to steal a pearl. He's already picked out the victim: the wealthy Mrs. JHP Crane.
In the meantime, the elderly lady befriends Penny, who has no idea of her father's criminal activities. When Penny's school fees have to be paid, Jerry is once again sluggish and has to overdraw his account to pay the bill. Mrs. Crane, who's been a fool of Penny, offers to adopt the child. Jerry refuses because he thinks he can do it on his own. Mrs. Crane throws a party for Penny, which Jerry nefariously uses to steal Mrs. Crane's pearls. He then hides the jewelery in Penny's teddy bear. When the theft becomes public, Penny openly asks her father if he made the long fingers. Jerry lays boldly to his daughter and swears he is innocent. Penny finds the necklace in her stuffed animal and realizes that her dad lied. In order to protect the child, Toni tells Penny untruthfully that she herself stole the necklace, not Jerry. Toni then makes it clear to Jerry that she is finally fed up with him.
Jerry realizes that he has overstepped the curve and asks Felix, who has since taken the necklace, to return the stolen goods. Felix threatens Jerry with a revolver. There is a duel in which Jerry shoots Felix. Jerry, wounded himself, gives the necklace back to Mrs. Crane and offers her to take Penny after all. In order not to expose her father in front of his daughter, Mrs. Crane tells Penny that she was wrong about the necklace. It was not stolen, just misplaced. Then she takes the little girl to boarding school. Shortly afterwards, Jerry collapses in the presence of Toni, who is taking him to a hospital, and explains to her that he has finally stopped running away.
Production notes
Meeting point: Paris! was made in Hollywood and premiered on August 31, 1934. The German premiere fell on May 12, 1937.
Emanuel Cohen was the line producer, Jack Kirkland and Melville Baker delivered the story under the title Honor Bright . Hans Dreier designed the buildings executed by Robert Usher and Richard O'Dell.
useful information
With this film and the recently filmed " Die Glückspuppe " , Shirley Temple achieved her breakthrough to screen star in 1934 alongside the already established stars Cooper and Lombard.
synchronization
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Jerry Day | Gary Cooper | Siegfried Schürenberg |
| Toni Carstairs | Carole Lombard | Hertha von Walther |
| Penny Day | Shirley Temple | Gina Presgott |
| Felix Evans | Guy standing | Walter Werner |
Reviews
" Surefire box office entertainment ."
The Movie & Video Guide found, “ The usual story of the jewel thief returning to the path of virtue. Lombard is overshadowed by Cooper and Temple ”.
" Expertly designed to provide first class entertainment ."
Halliwell's Film Guide commented, “A curious mix of comedy and drama that was a box office hit at the time but looks pretty dated now. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ Synchronized with dievergessenenfilme.wordpress.com
- ^ Leonard Maltin : Movie & Video Guide, 1996 edition, p. 946
- ^ Leslie Halliwell : Halliwell's Film Guide, Seventh Edition, New York 1989, p. 743
Web links
- Meeting point: Paris! in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Now and Forever in the American Film Institute catalog