Unfaithfully Yours (1948)

Regisseur:

Preston Sturges

Drehbuchautor:

Preston Sturges (screenplay)

Premierendatum:

10. Dezember 1948 (USA)

Genre:

Komödie

Werbezeile:

Will somebody "get her" tonite?

Plot:

Sir Alfred De Carter suspects his wife of infidelity. While conducting a symphony orchestra, he imagines...

Plot Keywords:

Writer Director | Family Member | Obsession | Betrayal | Extramarital Affair

Nutzerkommentare:

The perfect comedy!

Besetzung

Rex Harrison	...	Sir Alfred De Carter
Linda Darnell	...	Daphne De Carter
Rudy Vallee	...	August Henshler
Barbara Lawrence	...	Barbara Henshler
Kurt Kreuger	...	Anthony Windborn
Lionel Stander	...	Hugo Standoff
Edgar Kennedy	...	Detective Sweeney
Al Bridge	...	House Detective (as Alan Bridge)
Julius Tannen	...	O'Brien
Torben Meyer	...	Dr. Schultz

Alternativ:

Symphony Story (USA) (working title)
Unfinished Symphony (USA) (working title)
Meine Frau betrügt mich (Österreich) [de]
Ungetreue, Die (Bundesrepublik Deutschland) [de]

Länge:

105 Min

Produktionsland:

USA

Sprache:

Englisch

Farbe:

Schwarzweiss

Seitenverhältnis:

1.37 : 1

Tonverfahren:

Mono (Western Electric Recording)

Altersfreigabe:

Finland:S | USA:Approved (certificate #12960)

Firma:

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

Dies und das:

The orchestral conductor Sir Alfred de Carter, is based loosely on the real life British conductor Sir Thomas Beecham. Beecham was the son of pharmacist Sir Joseph Beecham, the inventor of the laxative Beecham's Pills. Accordingly Harrison's character, Sir Alfred de Carter, is said to be named after Carter's Little Liver Pills, the American equivalent.

Pannen:

Abfolgefehler: In one shot the phone receiver gets knocked off the hook, but moments later the phone rings and the receiver is in place on the phone.

Dialogzitate:

Alfred: I give you my solemn word, August: if I don't regain control of myself in a few minutes, concert or no concert, I'll take this candelabrum and beat that walnut you use for a head into a nutburger, I believe they're called!

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The perfect comedy!

It is rare when a film is so funny that it will give me fits of belly laughter, and Unfaithfully Yours is one of them. Rex Harrison stars as an English aristocrat and eminent conductor who, despite being madly in love with his wife (played by Linda Darnell) realizes as a result of several misunderstandings that she may be cheating on him. While he is conducting a symphony concert he comes up with three different scenarios in his head of how to deal with her alleged duplicity. Actually carrying out these plans turns out to be an entirely different matter.

Preston Sturges is always an excellent writer and director, but his quick wit and double entendres are a revelation in this film. One almost has to watch it two or three times to get every comment uttered and facial expression portrayed by our protagonist (Harrison). His delivery is superb, sometimes almost funnier than the words he is saying. Darnell and the supporting cast provide excellent straight and slapstick moments. Dudley Moore starred in a remake of this film in the 80's which was also enjoyable, but having now seen this film, I highly recommend the original over the remake. It is an hour and a half of pure delight.

--Shelly