Ach du lieber Harry

  • Dieter Hallervorden: Harry app
  • Iris Berben: Jane
  • Jacques Marin: " Reverend " Paul
  • Manfred Lehmann: " Father " Benno
  • Lisa Helwig: Anni Rose
  • Karl Sibold: hotel manager
  • Volker Prechtel: Floor waiter
  • Josef Holzer Moss: Schaffner
  • Nino Korda: Castello

Oh my Harry is a German criminal comedy from 1981 by Jean Girault with Dieter Hallervorden in the lead role.

Action

Harry app is a little awkward and clumsy private detective, which lacks potential clients. For this reason he will only accept any order, the money brings - as also that of the Senior Anni Rose, which some might contribute to Barem him. The elderly client hires at Harry for personal transfer its award-winning breeding rabbit "Mr. Theo" to a breed show in Switzerland. Of necessity takes over the App unloved job as a pet sitter.

At the same time crook Paul and Benno have stolen a valuable painting and want to bring it inconspicuously out of the country. To this end, dress up the two as clergy and hide the image calculated in the shipping box of " Mister Theo". Through a series of events Harry finally missed the train from Munich to Lausanne. Of necessity he plays pickup and is driven by the attractive Jane until the next stop of the train in the car.

As the story progresses it Jane, who is also a detective runs, more often on the road. Harry has to take on some costumes and transported more than once by Paul and Benno roughly out of the train. In the end, all parties reach but still in one piece to Lausanne, where the painting goes back to the lawful possession and the thieves are eventually arrested. Anni Rose gets the money the gangsters, "Mr. Theo" its price and Harry gets Jane.

Trivia

  • "Oh dear Harry," 1981 was the most successful German comedy of the year and the start of Dieter Hallervorden's movie career after the end of his series "Nonstop nonsense ".
  • Hallervorden role name " Harry app" is a corruption and Eindeutschung the English term " Hurry up! " Which means as much as "Hurry up! ".
  • As in his later movies Hallervorden also made in "Oh dear Harry," almost all of his own stunts Primarily these were acrobatics and climbing layers above and below a moving passenger train.
  • In an interview Hallervorden told that for Jean Girault was the most important in the shooting, which wine it was for lunch.
  • The scene with Manfred Lehmann and Hallervorden on the train recalls the scene with Richard Kiel and Gene Wilder in the American movie Trans America Express from 1976.

Reviews

  • " A consisting of slapstick, vulgarity and grimaces comedy, hard-working grotesque comedy for modest claims. " - " Encyclopedia of the international film " (CD -ROM edition ), Systhema, Munich 1997

DVD Release

The film was released on 26 May 2006 at turbine media to DVD.

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