For a moment, I thought the Indian character was played by the same actor as the Indian character in "Man's Favourite Sport", because of the hat. It wasn't.
Turns out that was Buster Keaton. I don't think I've ever watched one of his movies, so I didn't recognise him.
Anyhow, so here's what 1960s bland, sexy musical comedies looked like in Germany: https://youtu.be/P9tPrzJ9W0I https://youtu.be/8Trk3ytVKKY (I'm not entirely sure why there is a goat involved...)
Hahaha, well it's good to see that the 60s hit a lot of places in the same way, despite their differences. I'd say that the Let's Shake was more wholesome than you'd get in American or British films of the time but that is also the LAMEST dance I have ever seen. The second one was creepier. I'm assuming they were sneaking over a border by distracting the guards with sex appeal?
Little known fact: Before the EU, Germans and Danes crossed all borders by stripping down to their underwear and riding on the outside of buses.
In a more serious note, I never actually saw those movies, so I can only infer what plot point is supposed to be happening. The song seems more suited to hitchhiking than border crossing (the lyrics are "Please please please take me along, don't leave me here!"), but I imagine your interpretation is correct.
As for being wholesome, I grew up with a certain genre of German & Austrian movies from the 60s & 70s, which were (trying to be) über-wholesome. Comedies that tended to feature slapstick and farce. Pranks and light entertainment and 1950s family values. Basically, Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis movies, and Doris Day movies, Louis de Funes movies, and German movies that were noticeably blander and squeaky cleaner than all those others. Peter Alexander (https://youtu.be/G0j82LKP9oI) movies. Heintje movies (https://youtu.be/br6X1LRZRnc), one or two Roy Black movies (https://youtu.be/vGV8Hhhg9hQ). If I try to watch one now, most of them tend to be unbearably awkward or boring. I think the only one I still find quite enjoyable is Das Spukschloss im Spessart, about a bunch of ghosts of former robbers haunting (and later helping) a young woman who inherits the mansion they were entombed in. That one has a slightly more anarchic streak than most.
It's kind of weird to think that British comedies of the same time were the complete opposite of wholesome and all about women's bras falling off and dirty old men.
For a moment, I thought the Indian character was played by the same actor as the Indian character in "Man's Favourite Sport", because of the hat. It wasn't.
ReplyDeleteTurns out that was Buster Keaton. I don't think I've ever watched one of his movies, so I didn't recognise him.
Anyhow, so here's what 1960s bland, sexy musical comedies looked like in Germany:
https://youtu.be/P9tPrzJ9W0I
https://youtu.be/8Trk3ytVKKY (I'm not entirely sure why there is a goat involved...)
Hahaha, well it's good to see that the 60s hit a lot of places in the same way, despite their differences. I'd say that the Let's Shake was more wholesome than you'd get in American or British films of the time but that is also the LAMEST dance I have ever seen. The second one was creepier. I'm assuming they were sneaking over a border by distracting the guards with sex appeal?
DeleteLittle known fact: Before the EU, Germans and Danes crossed all borders by stripping down to their underwear and riding on the outside of buses.
DeleteIn a more serious note, I never actually saw those movies, so I can only infer what plot point is supposed to be happening. The song seems more suited to hitchhiking than border crossing (the lyrics are "Please please please take me along, don't leave me here!"), but I imagine your interpretation is correct.
As for being wholesome, I grew up with a certain genre of German & Austrian movies from the 60s & 70s, which were (trying to be) über-wholesome. Comedies that tended to feature slapstick and farce. Pranks and light entertainment and 1950s family values. Basically, Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis movies, and Doris Day movies, Louis de Funes movies, and German movies that were noticeably blander and squeaky cleaner than all those others. Peter Alexander (https://youtu.be/G0j82LKP9oI) movies. Heintje movies (https://youtu.be/br6X1LRZRnc), one or two Roy Black movies (https://youtu.be/vGV8Hhhg9hQ). If I try to watch one now, most of them tend to be unbearably awkward or boring. I think the only one I still find quite enjoyable is Das Spukschloss im Spessart, about a bunch of ghosts of former robbers haunting (and later helping) a young woman who inherits the mansion they were entombed in. That one has a slightly more anarchic streak than most.
It's kind of weird to think that British comedies of the same time were the complete opposite of wholesome and all about women's bras falling off and dirty old men.
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