Watch out, Mister Dodd
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| Original title | Watch out, Mister Dodd |
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| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1964 |
| length | 98 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
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| Director | Günter Gräwert |
| script |
Claus Hardt , Utz Utermann , Carl Nerz |
| production | KG Divina-Film GmbH & Co. ( Claus Hardt , Utz Utermann ) |
| music | Franz Grothe |
| camera | Erich Claunigk |
| cut | Elisabeth Imholte |
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Caution Mister Dodd is a German black and white film directed by Günter Gräwert from 1964 . The main actor in the crime comedy based on the play Top Secret (original title: Out Of Bounds ) by Arthur Watkyn was Heinz Rühmann in a double role. The film opened in German cinemas on February 14, 1964.
action
Ivor Marmion buys British military secrets in order to sell them on to Eastern intelligence services for a good profit . But the British Secret Service has learned when and where Marmion is going to buy a map of British missile locations from a Mr. Howard, and wants to arrest the two in the red. But then the head of the Secret Service, Sir Gerald Blythe, received the news that the plane with Marmion should have crashed and that there were no survivors.
In order to arrest Mr. Howard in the red, however, Professor Dr. Lancelot Dodd, the director of the boarding school where Sir Blythe's son is taught, go to the meeting instead of Marmion, since Mr. Dodd is a Marmion doppelganger . After Sir Blythe has assured that the action is safe because a Secret Service employee is still nearby, Mr. Dodd agrees and is even ready to have his mustache shaved off, since according to information from the Secret Service, Marmion does not have a beard .
The first problems arise when Mr. Dodd mistakenly mistakenly thinks the waiter Toni is the secret service agent, who actually works for a third party who wants to take the card from Marmion as soon as he has received it. It gets completely turbulent when the real Marmion appears, who has taken a later plane. But Marmion has grown a mustache, which makes Mr. Dodd look more like Marmion to Mr. Howard, who only knows Marmion from photos without a mustache.
History of origin
The film was directed by the production company Co. KG DIVINA-FILM GmbH & manufactured. The company belonged to Ilse Kubaschewski , who was also the owner of the first distributor Gloria-Film GmbH & Co. Filmverleih KG . The working title was initially him nothing can shake .
In the early 1960s, film producers Claus Hardt and Utz Utermann produced the successful crime comedies The Black Sheep and He Can't Leave It with Heinz Rühmann. The young television director Günter Gräwert was engaged as a director . The rest of the film team consisted mainly of experienced staff such as the cameraman Erich Claunigk and the composer Franz Grothe . The film architects were Willi Schatz and Robert Stratil , while Walter Rühland acted as sound engineer . Walter Boos was the assistant director . The drafts for the title opening came from the graphic designer Michael Engelmann .
A later television version of Arthur Watkyn's play directed by Thomas Engel ran in 1975 under the title Top Secret in the 1st program .
Reviews
"Long-winded, only moderately exciting crime comedy based on British models, which draws a certain charm from a double role for Heinz Rühmann."
"An only moderately enjoyable conversation."
Web links
- Caution Mister Dodd in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Beware of Mister Dodd at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ 98 minutes for cinema projection (24 images / second), 94 minutes for television playback (25 images / second), film length: 2686 meters
- ↑ Spelling according to the film opening credits and film poster
- ↑ Be careful, Mister Dodd. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed August 27, 2017 .
- ↑ Ev. Munich Press Association, Review No. 95/1964