Lentävä kalakukko (1953)

User Rating:

5.2/10   

Director:

Ville Salminen

Writer:

Reino Helismaa (writer)

Release Date:

13 March 1953 (Finland)

Genre:

Comedy | Crime

Plot:

Robbers try to escape using a train from Helsinki to Kuopio. |

Plot Keywords:

Robber | Train | Detective | Robbery

Cast

Esa Pakarinen	...	Samuli Saastamoinen, Train detective
Mai-Brit Heljo	...	Pretty-Molly
Siiri Angerkoski	...	Jenni
Kullervo Kalske	...	Yrjö
Armas Jokio	...	Aleksi
Leo Lähteenmäki	...	'Ramperi alias detective Saastamoinen'
Matti Aulos
Irja Rannikko	...	Taimi Toeikkae
Hannes Veivo	...	Kello-Kalle
Masa Niemi	...	Leevi Lindroos alias Läski-Leevi

Also Known As:

Pekka ja Pätkä konduktööreinä (Finland) (festival title)

Runtime:

66 min

Country:

Finland

Language:

Finnish

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Certification:

Finland:S

Company:

Suomen Filmiteollisuus

Goofs:

Factual errors: In the opening scene, a calendar conspicuously shows Friday 13th February 1946. In fact, that day was a Wednesday.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Kulkuri ja joutsen (1999)

Travelling to Kuopio

A train is travelling from Helsinki to Kuopio.In that train there are some escaping robbers.Esa Pakarinen plays The Conductor/Train detective Samuli Saastamoinen.The atmosphere is very jovial as the song says in Finnish.There's lots of singing and everything is good.Ville Salminen as the director and Reino Helismaa as the writer Lentävä kalakukko (1953) is a joyful Finish movie.Esa Pakarinen is there to make sure everybody's having a good time.Also his comic partner Masa Niemi is there playing a crook they call Läski-Leevi who has a twitching eye.Siiri Angerkoski plays a gypsy called Jenni and Armas Jokio is her man Aleksi.There are also Maj-Brit Heljo (Kaunis-Molly) and Pentti Irjala (Lumberjack).This movie works because of the fine characters it has.Lentävä kalakukko is good as a song and as a movie.