The trap snaps gently

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Movie
German title The trap snaps gently
Original title How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1968
length 102 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Fielder Cook
script Stanley Shapiro ,
Nate Monaster
production Stanley Shapiro
music Michel Legrand
camera Lee Garmes
cut Philip W. Anderson
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The trap snaps tenderly (Original title: How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life ) is an American comedy film from 1968 by Fielder Cook . The script was written by Stanley Shapiro and Nate Monaster . The leading roles are cast with Dean Martin , Stella Stevens , Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson . The 1967 film premiered on January 17, 1968 in New York City. It premiered in the Federal Republic of Germany on February 16, 1968. Camera veteran Lee Garmes gave his farewell performance here.

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Successful businessman Harry Hunter had an unhappy marriage. He finds comfort in his lover, Muriel. When his friend David Sloane learns about this, he feels obliged to save Harry's marriage. A discussion between the two friends leads to a gentlemen's agreement: David is supposed to test the loyalty of Harry's lover. If she succumbs to his bachelorette charm, Harry remorsefully wants to return to his wife.

David mistakenly thinks Harry's new employee Carol is his lover. It doesn't take long for Carol to fall in love with David, and so it is not difficult for David to compromise her with Harry, who is unaware of the mix-up. David feels like a benefactor: After twelve years of marriage, Harry is starting his second honeymoon with his wife.

But now the error is cleared up. Carol, who feels betrayed by David, pays him back. With female cunning, she first takes him to prison, then to a mental hospital and forces him to pay for her maintenance. Finally she lures him with the promise to get divorced the next day and then to refrain from all financial demands in front of the altar. But immediately after the wedding, David realizes that he loves Carol. Fate has a happy ending in store for Harry too: he finally separates from his wife and will soon marry his lover.

Reviews

The Protestant film observer summarizes his criticism as follows: “Variations on the rattled topic: How does an American girl fish for a wealthy American bachelor? One of those Hollywood comedies whose recipe for success seems to be that they are so fatally similar. The frivolous, but basically only homely and viscous clothes can only entertain the undemanding. "The lexicon of the international film comes to a similar assessment:" Slightly frivolous and quite simple-minded Hollywood comedy that runs out of air and wit halfway through. "

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Evangelischer Filmbeobachter , Evangelischer Presseverband Munich, Review No. 127/1968, pp. 122–123.
  2. ↑ Lexicon of international films , rororo-Taschenbuch No. 6322 (1988), p. 4392