Swiss Miss (film)

• Stan Laurel: Stan
• Oliver Hardy: Ollie
• Grete Natzler: Anna Albert
• Walter Woolf King Victor Albert
• Eric Blore Edward, adviser to Mr. Albert
• Adia Kuznetzoff: Cook
• Charles Judels: owner of the cheese factory
• Ludovico Tomarchio: Luigi
• Charles Gemora: Gorilla

Laurel and Hardy as a salon Tyrolean ( Original: Swiss Miss ). 's An American comedy film of the comic duo Laurel and Hardy from 1938, the film opened on 28 February 1952 in German cinemas, Austrian theatrical release was in 1948 where it was. the film under the title of the Merry Tyrolean published. In Switzerland, the film its title Laurel and Hardy in the Bernese Oberland received. On television, the film was also titled Swiss girl.

Action

Stan and Ollie want to sell in Switzerland mousetraps because the business in the U.S. is not particularly running and Stan is of the opinion that the Swiss have many mice according to the Swiss cheese. A buyer is cheating with fake money with which they want to pay in a restaurant. Since they have no valid money, they have to work off the bill. During this time, Ollie falls in love with the wife of the composer and guest Victor Albert and thinks she's in love with him. It is therefore all the more disappointed when it turns out that the temporary falling out of the pair is due only to a small dispute. Nevertheless wishes Mr. Albert, to be able to work undisturbed and away from his wife. He rented a chalet, connected by a suspension bridge with a mountain path that is in incredible height. Stan and Ollie are to transport his piano then over. Not only that Stan has been recently drunk with brandy, it makes problems. A gorilla who comes from the chalet, thwarted the piano transport and crashes at the end, including instrument in depth. At the end of the film the monkey hunts with crutches and plastered limbs Stan and Ollie afterwards which worked the debt and want to go back to America.

Find out more about the background

• Filming lasted from December 28, 1937 to February 26, 1938.
• This film resulted in the emergence of time to some tension between producer Hal Roach and Stan Laurel. Laurel had seen through his private affairs with numerous negative headlines for sedition, why Roach was concerned about his reputation. Furthermore, they strongly disagreed in their idea of ​​what the film were concerned, match because Laurel was, he came along with Hardy too little before.
• The film was originally to be shot in color, but Hal Roach returned after three days of shooting back to black-and-white film back, as a color film would strain the budget, which was 700,000 U.S. dollars anyway to date the highest.
• The most famous sketch of this film, one in which Stan and Ollie take when transporting a piano on a monkey, was shot in a recording studio, where the mountains, the chalet and the suspension bridge were built. The river bed was painted on a canvas with small holes to achieve a natural reflection of the sun's rays on the water surface.

Information about the German dubbed version

• The German dubbed version preserved to this day in 1952, made ​​at the International Film Union AG. The dialog book was written by Wolfgang Schnitzler, the music that came to no bands were allowed to re- compose by Conny Schumann.
• Stan was spoken as early as 1936 by Walter Bluhm, supported by Hermann Pfeiffer as Ollie.

Swell

• Laurel & Hardy: As a salon Tyrolean, DVD 2006, Section Production Notes ( written by Norbert Aping )
• Norbert Aping: The Laurel and Hardy book. The story of Laurel & Hardy in Germany. , Stoke Verlag 2004