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The Music ! The Duck Hunting ! The Remake ! The Duck Hunting ! The whole Cast ! The Duck Hunting ! The Color ! The Duck Hunting ! The Edward "I learned a lot of the Marx Brothers" Buzzell ! The Duck Hunting ! The Music ! The Duck Hunting ! The Art Direction ! The Duck Hunting !

What will I say ?!

Viv'America ! Viv'America ! Viv'America !

Esther is great as ever ! Lucille Ball is not a Star in Germany and her performance is a little bit to comic-like ! Van Johnson is likable ! Keenan Wynn is a well casted sidekick ! Cesar Ramirez and Ethel Smith in their best On-Screen-Musical-Numbers ! Ben Blue and Cecil Kellaway are superb !

The movie is a remake from "Libeled Lady" from the year 1936 with William Powell, Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy and Jean Harlow.

The story has nothing new, but there are many little things that gives it a fresh breeze. First it's now a musical with a great Mambo-Feeiling.

Than it's in terrific color. (Watch the costumes and art direction)

And the best change to the original is, there's no fishing just duck hunting.

Viv'America ! Viv'America ! Viv'America !

Mulholland Falls is a crime-movie in the kind of Chinatown and would have had the attention it deserve - one year after L.A. Confidental.

Nolte, Palmintieri, Madsen and Chris Penn are the "Hat Squad", a cool and violent police-unit.

Unfortunately Nick Nolte is too much the center of the film - to the debit of Madsen and Penn.

New Zealand´s Director No. 1 Lee Tamahori has made a good-old-stylish movie, at which Haskell Wexler´s cinematography and Dave Grusin´s excellent score would have deserved some Oscar- Nominations.

The story is very interesting and give a look of the USA at the beginning of the 50´s (like L.A. Confidental).

However the movie has missed the chance to a remarkable end.

Unfortunately it´s only almost a masterpiece.

(Translated by my little sister Antonia)

The writers Clement / LaFrenais (The Commitments / Still Crazy) have made a funny satire of the end of the british colonialism in the Thatcher-Era (2 years after the Falkland Conflict) and about TV and commerce.

Michael Caine gives a great performance as the Gouvernor of the island.

The rest of the cast is extraordinary, especially the comedian Billy Connolly (Mrs. Brown / Still Crazy) as leader of the 2-Men- Guerilla-Group of the island.

The film contains some good reggae-songs of the 80´s Reggae-Pop-Grandmaster Eddy Grant and some others.

A tip for all, who wanna have sun & fun for 100 minutes !

(Translated by my sister Antonia)