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Ohne Krimi geht die Mimi nie ins Bett
Austria 1962
produced by Carl Szokoll, Franz Antel for Neue Delta
directed by Franz Antel
starring Heinz Erhardt, Karin Dor, Harald Juhnke, Ann Smyrner, Peter Vogel, Trude Herr, Gus Backus, Raoul Retzer, Alexander Grill, Hannelore Auer, Elisabeth Stiepl, Edith Hancke, Bill Ramsey
written by Johannes Kai, Hugo Wiener
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Michael (Peter Vogel) and his fiancée Barbara (Karin Dor) want to
spend a romantic vacation together on a lonesome island off the coast of
Italy - but once there, Michael can't think of anything else but fishing,
which drives Barbara, who doesn't even like fish, nuts. At the same time,
rich businessman Keyser (Heinz Erhardt) wants to get his daughter Marion
(Ann Smyrner) together wtih his company's lawyer Thomas (Harald Juhnke),
but Thomas totally lacks natural charm and initiative - so Keyser plans a
vacation at a hotel in Italy where they are to "bump" into
Thomas by coincidence. Only Marion has other plans, so the three of them
end up making a camping trip - to the very island Michael and Barbara are
at. When they arrive, Michael and Barbara have just have such a big row
that she's running away enraged - to stumble upon Keyser and company, and
to them she claims Michael is only a fleeting acquaintance who's gotten
fresh towards her. Keyser and company offer her abode and protection, much
to the dismay of Michael who then travels back to the mainland to engage
singer Bob Stuart (Gus Backus) and his band to come to the island dressed
up as ghost and give Barbara and the others a mighty good scare. Thing is,
Gina (Trude Herr), resolute wife of the alcoholic chief of police (Raoul
Retzer), has Sicilian blood in her veins, and she sends Bob Stuart to a
different island while sending a gang of crooks to Michael's island, and
they rob Keyser and company blind and destroy their and even Michael's
boat, so much so that Barbara, Keyser, Marion and Thomas all seek abode in
Michael's cottage. Soon enouch, Barbara is fed up that Marion's always
flirting with Michael, and more so that he flirts back, while Thomas feels
outmatched by Michael, so one night they fix a boat and travel to the
mainland - where they have some trouble telling the chief of police what
has happened, but ultimately he sends a boat to pick up Michael and the
others - and all are sent to jail ... but this is when Thomas has his time
to shine, as as a lawyer, he makes a compassionate speech that has them
all out in no time, and thus Marion finally falls for him, and for no
reason at all (other than an overdue happy ending), Barbara forgives
Michael everything and they live happily ever after - for at least another
week ... A framing story has Bill Ramsey play out his hit song, the
titular Ohne Krimi geht die Mimi nie ins Bett, where he wants to go
to sleep but his wife (Edith Hancke) keeps the light on all through the
night as she wants to finish reading her crime novel ... Even
if the title suggests a krimi and it stars Karin Dor, then pretty
much the female face of the genre, the film is much more of a romantic
comedy, going through all the motions, hardly missing out on clichés,
peppered with a handful of Schlager performances - and frankly,
it's not a very remarkable film, not very funny, and apart from the title
song the songs are all very unremarkable ... but watching it through the
glasses of nostalgia, it has a totally out-of-date ring to it that's at
the very least entertaining - if for all the wrong reasons.
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