A Man Could Get Killed

Welcome, Mr. B ( Original title: A Man Could Get Killed ) is an American spy comedy in 1966 in the Portuguese capital Lisbon and the surrounding area from a screenplay by Richard L. Breen, TEB Clarke and David E. Walker - based on the novel Diamonds for Danger by Walker - was set up by the British directors Ronald Neame and Cliff Owen in scene. The main characters are James Garner, Melina Mercouri, Sandra Dee, Anthony Franciosa, and Robert Coote. The later well-known British actress Jenny Agutter occurs as a fourteen- year-old in a smaller role in appearance. The österreichischstämmige actor Peter Illing had his last appearance before his death in the same year.

In this film, the Bert Kaempfert tune was a worldwide hit Strangers in the Night Beddy Bye as their first public performance; it was in 1967 awarded a Golden Globe Award for " Best Original Song in a Motion Picture ".

Criticism

" A fun, frisky played comedy with parodical tonguing, which occupies more details by exhilarating than unity for themselves. "

Synchronization

The German synchronization was carried out in 1966 by the Berliner Synchron GmbH. The dialog book wrote Fritz A. Koenig and the Director, Klaus of choice. Holger Hagen, after Claus Biederstaedt the German standard voice of James Garner, said his role. The roles of Melina Mercouri and Sandra Dee were spoken by their standard synchronization expensive Gisela Trowe and Marianne Lutz.

Soundtrack

Bert Kaempfert's instrumental records arrived in Germany not particularly good. In the U.S. its 15 big -band LPs sold around 4 million copies; alone of his LP Midnight Blue ( December 1964; Rank 5 of the U.S. LP charts ) in the U.S. were 800,000 units implemented in Germany, only 8,000. Kaempfert had, not least because of its hit parade success - he was with his composition Wonderland by Night, 1959, the first German which reached the top spot in the U.S. - in the United States with a high level of awareness.

With this history, Bert Kaempfert had been awarded the contract in 1965 by Universal Pictures to write the music for the film. To this end, he wrote in the fall of 1965, among others an instrumental piece entitled Beddy Bye. This has as its main theme, which is activated after about a good minute, which, already quoted in part in played at the opening of the film " Main Title " of the film melody, which in the course of 1966, with lyrics by Charles Singleton and Eddie Snyder was interpreted by Frank Sinatra under the name Strangers in the Night a worldwide hit. On March 8, 1966 Bert Kaempfert took, formally under the musical direction of Universal's longtime musical director Joseph Gershenson, with a studio orchestra the soundtrack. In the film, the tune finds its most effective use in a happy ending suggestive final scene.

The title won the Golden Globe Award in 1967 for " Best Original Song in a Motion Picture " and beat off the other nominees compositions Un homme et une femme ( German title: A man and a woman) of the Frenchman Francis Lai, Born Free ( German Title: born Free ) John Barry, winner of the 1967 Academy Award won for best song, Alfie ( German title: The Alfie ) by Burt Bacharach, and Georgy Girl by Tom Springfield from the same films by. The latter two tracks were also nominated for an Oscar in 1966.

The soundtrack as a whole, often referring seemingly in Latin and Greek themes and even African themes of Kaempfert citing befell a rather middling recording and he often appears inconsistent and discordant in its entirety. The soundtrack was produced by Milt Gabler and originally released on an LP by Decca (# 4750 ). He was re-released on a CD of Taragon Records in 1999 combined with the Kaempfert Strangers in the Night LP ( Decca # 74795 ).

1966 in film T. E. B. Clarke Robert Arthur, Jr. Film score Martin Benson (actor) Virgilio Teixeira (actor) John Barry (composer) Decca Records
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