The Sunshine Boys (film)

  • Walter Matthau: Willy Clark
  • George Burns: Al Lewis
  • Richard Benjamin: Ben Clark
  • Jennifer Lee: Helen Clark
  • Lee Meredith: Nurse McIntosh
  • Carol Arthur: Doris Green, The daughter
  • Rosetta LeNoire: Odessa, Willy's nurse
  • F. Murray Abraham: Mechanic
  • Howard Hesseman: Mr. Walsh

The Sunny Boys is an American comedy film directed by Herbert Ross from the year 1975 is based on the Broadway play The Sunshine Boys ( Original title: The Sunshine Boys). Neil Simon from the year 1972.

Action

The somewhat dated actor Willy Clark talks to small roles on water, which his manager, nephew Ben Clark, gives him free. However, Uncle Clark is quite challenging and makes it his fellow man with his choleric nature not easy. One day Ben mediated a meeting with Willy's old partner Al Lewis.

This is a quiet and circumspect contemporary as opposed to Willy. Eben This trait brings Willy on the palm and took his time, more than 40 years earlier that the two quarreled and made ​​her stage play closed. Ultimately, it succeeds Ben Clark but to bring the two adversaries together again on the stage, but the cooperation will be just as difficult as all the years before. Willy upset over such trifles on that he has a heart attack. In the hospital bed, he first tries to maintain his line, but must ultimately to Al Lewis admit that he has not always been right, and the two adversaries are reconciled.

Locations

  • Ansonia Hotel - 74th & Broadway, Manhattan, New York City ( exteriors Willy's Apartment)
  • Ed Sullivan Theatre - 1697 Broadway, Manhattan. ( more exterior shots )
  • Friars Club - 107 West 45th Street, Manhattan.
  • George Washington Bridge, Manhattan.
  • Metro -Goldwyn -Mayer Studios - 10202 W. Washington Blvd, California..
  • Times Square, Manhattan.

Reviews

Cinema.de writes: "The Broadway comedy by Neil Simon impresses in the film version by snappy dialogue joke. The great George Burns, at the time of the shooting already 79 years old, received a well-deserved Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. "

Awards

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The most common implementation of the substance at a German theater should be those with Wolfgang Spier in the role of Al Lewis and Harald Juhnke in the role of Willy Clark at the Theater am Kurfürstendamm in Berlin.

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