You're telling me!
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | You're telling me! |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1934 |
| length | 71 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Alder C. Kenton |
| script |
WC Fields Walter DeLeon Paul M. Jones J. P. McEvoy |
| production |
Emanuel Cohen , William LeBaron for Paramount Pictures |
| music | John Leipold |
| camera | Alfred Gilks |
| cut | Otho Lovering |
| occupation | |
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You're telling me! is an American comedy film directed by Erle C. Kenton . WC Fields , who also worked on the script, plays the leading role . It is a remake of the silent comedy So's Your Old Man (1926), also with Fields in the lead role. Both films are based on the story Mr. Bisbee's Princess of Julian Leonard Street .
action
Sam Bisbee is an optician and hobby inventor who lives in a small American town with his wife and daughter. Because of his eccentric behavior and his great predilection for alcohol, he has a bad reputation, even his wife Bessie is ashamed of him. Only the daughter Pauline is on the side of her father. Pauline and Bob Murchison, who comes from the most respected family in town, are in love and want to get married. The relationship does not meet with the approval of Bob's mother, the snobbish Mrs. Quimby Murchison, who has a marked dislike for Sam Bisbee.
Sam receives a letter from the National Tire Company expressing an interest in one of his inventions: the bulletproof tire. He drives to the Tire Company in the big city in his car, which is fittingly equipped with four of his bulletproof tires. Sam parks in the no-parking zone and offers the company bosses to demonstrate his bulletproof tires. In the meantime, however, Sam's car has been towed away and a similar-looking police car is now parked there instead of his car. Sam, who has not noticed anything, shoots the tires of the police car, which of course are not bulletproof. To make matters worse, the police are now chasing him. Robbed of his car, Sam has to travel home by train. He even wants to kill himself first with the help of a bottle of iodine . When he later sees a bottle of iodine in front of another woman on the train, he mistakenly thinks that she wants to kill herself. Sam tries to dissuade the woman and tells her about his own worries. A long conversation develops between Sam and the woman, who introduces herself under the name Marie , through which Sam even misses his train stop. The old maid Mrs. Price has curiously observed Sam and Marie on the train and tells about it in Bisbee's hometown. In no time at all, wild rumors spread through the town, ruining Sam's reputation even further.
What Sam doesn't know: The train passenger Marie is Princess Lescaboura, who is visiting America. Moved, the princess decides to help him and pays Sam's hometown a surprise visit the following day. The mayor, Mrs. Quimby Murchison, and half the village greet you at the station. Princess Lescaboura says that she only came here because of her old friend Sam Bisbee, who once saved her life. As a result, Sam is suddenly well respected in the village and Mrs. Murchison no longer has any objection to a marriage between Pauline and Bob. Even Bessie suddenly treats her husband Sam more kindly. In the evening there is a party in the Bisbees house with the princess, and the following day Sam is allowed to open the new golf course in the Country Club . But since he has never played golf and has a useless caddy by his side, he does not want to succeed.
Meanwhile, the boss of the National Tire Company arrives at the golf course. In the meantime, the company had found Sam's real car and positively tested the shooting safety of the tires. The company boss initially only offers Sam 20,000 US dollars, but Princess Lescaboura offers against him. In the end, Sam gets a million dollars plus royalties for his tires . His daughter Pauline can finally marry Bob. Sam thanks the princess, whom he still thinks is a fraud, and congratulates her for tricking everyone - she replies with the film's title words: "You're telling me!" In the end, the whole family travels, only Sam stays at home and has fun with his best friends and loads of alcohol.
backgrounds
You're telling me! was a long lost film and was not rediscovered until the 1970s.
reception
Mordaunt Hall wrote in the New York Times on April 7, 1934: "In this wild joke, Mr. Fields does an admirable job of making most of the scenes very funny." The All Movie Guide said it was one of Fields' best feature films and a "comedic gem". The “master of cynicism” plays one of his most lovable roles in this film: he would still not miss an opportunity to insult his fellow man, but in this film he would have a certain vulnerability and tenderness. Fields alone was reason enough to see the film, but supporting actors like Adrienne Ames, Kathleen Howard and Louise Carter would also convince. Only Buster Crabbe and Joan Marsh remained quite superficial as young lovers.
Web links
- You're telling me! in the Internet Movie Database (English)