Galopp ins Glück

Originaltitel: Down Argentine Way

1940
12
1 Std. 29 Min.

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Carmen Miranda, Don Ameche, and Betty Grable in Galopp ins Glück (1940)

Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuAn American girl on vacation in Argentina falls for a wealthy racehorse owner.An American girl on vacation in Argentina falls for a wealthy racehorse owner.An American girl on vacation in Argentina falls for a wealthy racehorse owner.

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

6,4/10

1410

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

Für 3 Oscars nominiert
- 1 Gewinn & 3 Nominierungen insgesamt

Wissenswertes
This was the first of a series of Latin American-themed movies that became very popular with American audiences in the 1940s. Darryl F. Zanuck produced the film in response to President Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Good Neighbor Policy" of friendship towards Latin American countries. Also, with the war in Europe starting, Zanuck hoped to develop Mexico and South America as alternative markets for his Hollywood films. However, while Galopp ins Glück (1940) was a success in America, the Argentines hated it! When the film was screened in Buenos Aires, Argentine government officials refused to allow it to be shown in any theaters in their country. Among the things the Argentines objected to: (1) None of the Argentine characters in the film spoke with an Argentine Castilian Spanish accent. (2) Several Argentine characters are depicted as lazy, freeloading, or dishonest. (3) The three Argentine bankers who greet Betty Grable at the airport speak to her in fractured English, when most upper-class Argentines spoke perfect English. (4) Casiano, the horse groom played by J. Carrol Naish, wears a "gaucho" outfit ("gauchos" are Argentine cowboys, not horse ranchers). (5) Although Carmen Miranda was popular in Argentina, she was Brazilian and sang Cuban-inspired songs in Portuguese. Her presence in the movie gave the impression that Argentina is a tropical country, when it is a mountain country.

Patzer
Although Edward Fielding is listed in the credits as having portrayed Glenda Crawford's father, Willis Crawford, he is only seen at the Tuxedo Horse Show near the start of the film. He has no other scenes.

Zitate
Glenda Crawford, aka Glenda Cunningham: Excuse me, I've got to go see a man about a horse.

Verbindungen
Featured in That's Dancing (1985)

Soundtracks
Bambu Bambu
(uncredited)
Music traditional
Lyrics by Almirante and Valdo De Abreu
Performed by Carmen Miranda with Bando da Lua

Benutzerrezensionen30

Rezension

Ausgewählte Rezension

6/10

Okay at best

Decent but forgettable Fox musical starring Betty Grable and Don Ameche. Grable is an okay film presence, quite cute but not much of an actress. I generally find Ameche a bore, though I do like him in Midnight. Here he plays an Argentinian nobleman, a son of a famous horse breeder. Grable is an American hippophile who falls in love first with Ameche's horse, and then with the man himself. Her family, unfortunately, has bad history with his father, which forces Ameche to return to South America abruptly. Grable follows. Like many of these little, classic musicals, the plot is negligible. You watch it for the pretty colors, the songs and the dancing. I'd prefer more songs myself, but the ones that are here are fine. Carmen Miranda appears in a nightclub sequence and sings two songs (she also pops up right after the opening credits for no reason in particular - I guess they just wanted to get their money's worth). This was her first appearance in a Hollywood movie. The Nicholas Brothers also appear, and knock it out of the park, as always. The equine plot line is sure to please any horse-lover, even though the plot starts to make less and less sense near the end. It devolves into a "screw it, we're just gonna sing a medley of the film's songs" finale, in which the Nicholas Brothers return (but not Miranda).