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Tomfoolery (film)
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'Tomfoolery' (German: 'Allotria') is a 1936 German comedy film directed by Willi Forst and starring Renate Mller, Jenny Jugo and Anton Walbrook.Hake p.58 It premiered at the Gloria-Palast in Berlin on 12 June 1936. A pair of friends fall in love with the same woman, before realizing they are really in love with two other women. Racing to his romantic interest, one of the friends (Heinz Rhmann) takes by chance part in the Monaco Grand Prix.
Joseph Goebbels remarked: "Quite energetic and lively. But it's overdone and therefore not totally satisfying. Less would be more." (original: Sehr flott und mit viel Tempo. Aber bertrieben an Effekten, und darum nicht ganz befriedigend. Weniger wre mehr.)
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* Hake, Sabine. 'Popular Cinema of the Third Reich'. University of Texas Press, 2001.
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