Three Good Friends
(1930)
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Three Good Friends
(1930)
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Lilian Harvey | ... | |
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Willy Fritsch | ... |
Willy Helbing
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Oskar Karlweis | ... | |
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Heinz Rühmann | ... | |
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Fritz Kampers | ... | |
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Olga Tschechowa | ... | |
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Kurt Gerron | ... |
Rechtsanwalt Dr. Kalmus
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Gertrud Wolle | ... |
Secretary
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Felix Bressart | ... |
Gerichtsvollzieher /
Bailiff
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Leo Monosson | ... |
Sänger
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Lewis Ruth Band | ... |
Orchester
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Comedian Harmonists | ... |
Barkeeper
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Robert Biberti | ... |
Barmann
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Erwin Bootz | ... |
Barmann
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Erich A. Collin | ... |
Barmann
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Willy, Kurt and Hans are broke, so they sell their car and open a filling station. Then they all fall in love vor the same girl.
Three good friends arrive home from vacation to discover they're bankrupt and the bailiff is about to strip their home of its contents. Left with just their car, they decide to open a gas station and it's then that they meet the lovely, blonde Lilian Cossmann - Lilian Harvey in one of her biggest hits. For such a very early talkie it's an astonishingly confident film, one of the first UFA 'operettas' yet with a contemporary, rather than period, setting. The Comedian Harmonists put in a guest spot as barbershop-style singing barmen, Olga Tschechowa appears in a supporting role and Werner Richard Heymann's marvelous music helps it all move along at a swift pace. This is a perennially popular Weimar-era German musical, and deservedly so.