The Prize (1963 film)
- Paul Newman: Andrew Craig
- Elke Sommer: Inger Lisa Andersson
- Edward G. Robinson: Max Stratmann / Walter Stratmann
- Diane Baker: Emily Stratmann
- Micheline Presle: Denise Marceau
- Gérard Oury: Claude Marceau
- Sergio Fantoni: Carlo Farelli
- Kevin McCarthy: John Garrett
- Leo G. Carroll: Count Bertil Jacobsson
- Sacha Pitoëff: Daranyi
- Jacqueline Beer: Monique Souvir
- John Wengraf: Hans Eckhart
Price is an American film directed by Mark Robson from the year 1963. Script as template served a year earlier published eponymous novel by Irving Wallace.
Action
Stockholm is preparing for the Nobel Prize. Count Bertil Jacobsson provides as every year for a smooth process. At the Grand Hotel Nobel laureates are received. From the USA comes the Nobel Andrew Craig, who is a womanizer and drinker. From the Swedish Foreign Ministry, he gets in Inger Lisa Andersson going monitoring, which should ensure that Craig does not start to drink during the day in Stockholm. The Nobel Prize for Medicine to receive John Garrett and Carlo Farelli in equal parts, what John Garrett is angry because he thinks Farelli an impostor who has stolen his ideas. The French couple Marceau received the Nobel Prize for chemistry, but only plays to the public the happy couple. Claude Marceau has an affair with his secretary Monique, also arrived. Max Stratmann is to receive the Nobel Prize for physics. Stratmann had fled during the Third Reich of Germany and is kidnapped shortly after his arrival from communist agents. It is replaced by a double, so that this act does not really stand. Max Stratmann had traveled with his niece Emily to Stockholm and you are now told that the double was her father Walter Stratmann. Walter Stratmann was not as assumed murdered by the Nazis, but managed to escape to the Soviet Union.
The writer Andrew Craig is the only suspicious and starts with curious investigation, which convince him that Stratmann was kidnapped. Daranyi, one of the hijackers, recognizes the danger posed by the writer and tries to assassinate Craig. Craig, however, can not convince them of the abduction story to the police. She sees in him the fantasizing drinkers. Also Inger initially doubt, however, helps Craig. From Aufpassertätigkeit Ingers finally a love story develops. When Craig discovers that Max Stratmann has been brought to a ship that is due to expire to Leningrad, Inger is kidnapped and blackmailed Craig. Nevertheless, he makes his way to the harbor. On the cargo ship he discovers Max Stratmann as Inger Andersson. Craig both freed and reached in time the Nobel Prize. The hard heart disease Stratmann reached at the last moment the stage to accept the Nobel award. His Double flees and is stabbed by Daranyi. It turns out that it is a professional actor and Walter Stratmann was already years earlier murdered by the Soviets. In contrast, the Nobel Prize ceremony takes its usual course and Count Jacobsson wonders why he was so nervous in the run every year. In the end, everything always runs smoothly.
Reviews
" Spy thriller in the footsteps of Hitchcock - the screenplay was written by Ernest Lehman ( North by Northwest ) -. , Which does not reach the wit and sophistication of his model by far "
Awards
Elke Sommer won in 1964 for her portrayal of Inger Lisa Andersson a Golden Globe Award for Best Young Actress. She received the prize together with Tippi Hedren ( The Birds ) and Ursula Andress ( James Bond Dr. No ). Diane Baker was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress.