Conny und Peter machen Musik

West Germany 1960
produced by
Luggi Waldleitner for Melodie Film, Roxy Film
directed by Werner Jacobs
starring Cornelia Froboess, Peter Kraus, Gustav Knuth, Walter Gross, Gudrun Schmidt, Kurt Grosskurth, Karl Lieffen, Johanna König, Ralf Wolter, Hans Schwarz, Anne-Marie Kolb, Ilse Corell, Trude Herr, Werner Scharfenberger
writen by Werner Jacobs, Karl Georg Külb, Aldo von Pinelli, music by Werner Scharfenberger, Conny's songs by Gerhard Froboess, Charly Niessen

Conny & Peter

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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Peter (Peter Kraus) gets fired from his job as a waiter by his tyrranical boss Grossi (Karl Lieffen), and since young Conny (Cornelia Froboess) thinks it's at least partly her fault, she promises to get him a job at the Hotel Splendide where she works as a roommaid and which is headed by her uncle Trautmann (Gustav Knuth). However, at first she has no luck getting him a job as a waiter - until valuable jewelry is stolen from several of the hotel rooms, and she figures she can have Peter hired as a hotel detective - which actually works, until Peter bungles up and arrests the resident hotel detective Mägerli (Walter Gross) and is promptly fired.

Peter is about to give up and leav town, but Conny pushes him forward and soon the two of them continue the investigations and identify one of the hotel's most well-respected guests, the Baroness (Gudrun Schmidt) as the thief and Peter's former boss Grossi as her helper. The Baroness however is clever enough to turn the tables on Peter and have him arrested as the thief, and it's only thanks to Conny that he is ultimately acquitted.

It all culminates in a wild chase all through the hotel during a Miss Europe pageant, in which the Baroness participates rather accidently, but ultimately, Conny and Peter can capture both her and Grossi and hand them over to the police ... and as a thank you, hotel boss Trautman gives Peter a job and Conny the convertible she has always wanted.

A silly musical crime comedy designed to cash in on its stars, the then amazingly successful recording artists Peter Kraus and Conny Froboess - which means the two break out into songs every now and again, even if the songs do nothing to move the plot forward and more often than not have nothing to do with the plot whatsoever.

On that account it's of course easy to dislike the film and to dismiss it as inferior kitsch ... but if you (like me) have a soft spot for camp, for bad comedy, for Schlager (a specifically German brand of pop music) from the late 1950's/early 60's, you might just as well find yourself liking this movie.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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