About cats and tomcats
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | About cats and tomcats |
| Original title | The big hangover |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1950 |
| length | 82 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Norman Krasna |
| script | Norman Krasna |
| production | Norman Krasna for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| music | Adolph German |
| camera | George J. Folsey , Joseph Ruttenberg |
| cut | Frederick Y. Smith |
| occupation | |
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Von Katzen und Katern is an American feature film ( comedy film ) directed by Norman Krasna in 1950. The film was produced by MGM .
action
The time of the action is the present. David Muldon is an excellent young lawyer, but as a soldier he almost drowned in a barrel of brandy during World War II and has since suffered from a strange hypersensitivity to alcohol. To cure this, he takes a spoonful of brandy every evening before going to bed - an attempt at therapy, which however proves to be a failure, since David now begins to hallucinate that a dog is talking to him.
Among the clients of David's lawyer partner John is a housing company that wants to get rid of a Chinese tenant couple, the Lees, by evicting. Because Mrs. Lee is pregnant, City Legal Representative Carl Bellcap threatens John with a lawsuit. When Mrs. Lee loses the child in childbirth, David, without consulting his colleagues, puts pressure on the housing company to accept the expelled tenants again.
Charles Parkford, another legal representative for the housing association, happened to find out about David's alcohol allergy at an alumni dinner and secretly pours wine into his soup to get his revenge. David gets drunk and embarrassingly shows himself in public.
After he is sober again, he attacks Bellcap, who is not committed enough to his political task and the fight against injustice. Bellcap admits he is tired of fighting rich and powerful law groups because of the lack of talented lawyers willing to work for the city. This makes an impression on David, and he quits John to take a job in the City Attorney's office .
John's daughter, the attractive young psychoanalyst Mary, has previously fallen in love with David and has tried to help him with his alcohol problem. Now she decides to marry him.
Production and reception
The film was written and directed by Norman Krasna, who won an Oscar in 1944 with the script for his directorial debut The Pilot and the Princess . The 34-year-old leading actor Van Johnson was one of the most popular stars in Hollywood, although he never won a major film award. For Elizabeth Taylor, who was 17 at the time of production, Von Katzen und Katern was the 13th film and the second in which she appeared as the adult leading lady . Her fee, which was written into a seven-year MGM studio contract , was $ 2,000 a week at the time.
The shooting for the film, which is produced in black and white and 35mm, took place in 1949 on the Oak Grove Estate in San Marino , California.
It was premiered in the USA on May 26, 1950.
criticism
"A thematically peculiar little film by the 'Oscar' winner Krasna, unusual for Hollywood, which owes its appeal above all to the actors who are well-presented right down to the supporting roles."
Web links
- Of cats and male cats in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Big Hangover at Turner Classic Movies (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ About cats and tomcats. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed May 4, 2019 .