Ohne Krimi geht die Mimi nie ins Bett (1962)
Consul Keyser, a factory owner, is vacationing with his daughter Marion on a Mediterranean island, hoping to bring her together with his assistant Dr. Thomas Steffen. On this island, however, the passionate fisherman Michael Lutz and his somewhat neglected admirer Barbara Holstein already spend their vacations.Michael asks the singer Bob Stuart, together with his band in their ghost costumes to drive away the annoying newcomers again. However, it no longer comes to this, because on behalf of Gina, the wife of the local police chief, real gangsters appear with the tourists and finally flee with their dinghy. So now the vacationers have to rely on each other willy-nilly, and the couples finally find each other.
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Excellent but underrated film
If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.
There are better movies of two hours length. I loved the actress'performance.
Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.
"Ohne Krimi geht die Mimi nie ins Bett" is an Austrian German-language film from 1962 and color was not a given at all during that era, but this film here has it. It runs for under 80 minutes, so it is fairly short. The cast includes Heinz Erhardt, Karin Dor, Harald Juhnke and Trude Herr, which is really as good as it gets for a film from slightly over 50 years ago. But director Antel as well as writers Kai and Wiener did not manage to deliver here in terms of using this cast potential for a quality film. It was a disappointment overall. Yes the title song is pretty catchy, but also only the chorus. Other than that, this film is an example of how German(-language) films, especially in terms of writing, from the 1960s were far from convincing in most cases. This one here was definitely a missed opportunity. I do not recommend the watch and I agree with what the two other reviewers (before me) wrote. Watch something else instead.
The title song by Bill Ramsey became a popular hit, but immediately after the opening credits the plot-free nonsense becomes a bore.A middle aged executive (played by the likable Heinz Erhardt) wants to play cupid to his beautiful daughter and a shy middle-management employee (Harald Juhnke), so the trio take a vacation on a small, uninhabited Italian island. Along with a young engaged couple, who are on the same island, everyone is soon entangled in a stupid robbery plot. Trude Herr plays the wife of a local police constable. The fact that she is a kleptomaniac with clever talents to cover her tracks is played up as amusing. Silly songs are slipped in to make the whole story less boring.If you decide to see this turkey, look for a bit-part played by Gus Backus, an American who had a brief singing/acting career in Germany. He sang "Wooden Heart" in German, before Elvis Presley gave it a go. Here Backus is just another piece in a nauseating puzzle. There really are no redeeming qualities about this forgettable movie. Find the catchy title song on an old 45rm record, but don't put yourself through watching 85 minutes of a really bad film.
Great comics Heinz Erhardt and Trude Herr are wasted in this very forced farce, that is not more than a string of badly timed and/or poor (visual) jokes. Schlagers are inserted for no apparent reason other than to keep the viewer awake.A good example of Franz Antel's bad taste (in the 70's he would be responsible for a number of "Tiroler sex movies") and of the decline of German/Austrian cinema in the 60's. Forget this one.