Forty daredevils
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Forty daredevils |
| Original title | Follow me, boys! |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1966 |
| length | 131 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Norman Tokar |
| script | Louis Pelletier |
| production |
Walt Disney Winston Hibler |
| music | George Bruns |
| camera | Clifford Stine |
| cut | Robert Stafford |
| occupation | |
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Forty Daredevils - the original title Follow Me, Boys! means follow me in German , guys! - is an American feature film directed by Norman Tokar from 1966 and starring Fred MacMurray and Vera Miles . The screenplay by Louis Pelletier is based on a story by MacKinlay Kantor . The exterior shots were made in Santa Clarita ( California ) and at Iverson Ranch Los Angeles , the interior shots at Walt Disney Studios in Burbank , California. In the Federal Republic of Germany, the film was first released on November 1, 1968.
action
The stories told by the film, centered around the young man Lemuel Siddons, begin around 1930 and end around 25 years later. The protagonist is a musician and a crashed law student, travels around the country with a band until one day he sees the attractive Vida Downey while resting in the small town of Hickory, falls in love with the girl and the city and finally settles down there and becomes satisfied . He marries Vida, loves strangers instead of his own children and decides to start a boy scout group, adopts the orphan Whitey, leads generations of boy scouts until he finally, honored and respected, retires as a chief scout.
Trivia
For the 80-year-old veteran actor Charles Ruggles was forty-getter the last movie.
Reviews
“A film about a man who (from 1930) got into youth and scouting work all his life and for this at the end of his life receives the rewards he deserves, which records youth problems almost to the point of mendacity. Family entertainment from the Disney workshop. "
“Mediocre idyll from a small American town, from the work of a scout leader out of conviction. Apolitical reveries by American chimneys. Superfluous."
Web links
- Forty-getter in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- A few pictures of the film at cinema.de
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Evangelischer Filmbeobachter , Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 573/1968.
- ↑ rororo-Taschenbuch No. 6322 (1988), p. 4131