The Darling of Vienna

Original title: Der Herr auf Bestellung

1930
1h 32m

IMDb RATING

7.8/10

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Comedy Musical

A stylish young man shows up as a substitute at events when officials and other important people are too busy to attend,and sometimes imitates their voices.A stylish young man shows up as a substitute at events when officials and other important people are too busy to attend,and sometimes imitates their voices.A stylish young man shows up as a substitute at events when officials and other important people are too busy to attend,and sometimes imitates their voices.

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7.8/10

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10Winston_C

A hilarious comedy

... with many surreal or absurd jokes.

Long before the Marx Brothers, perhaps best compared with some Ernst Lubitsch silents ("Die Austernprinzessin", for example), this movie, along with "Die Drei von der Tankstelle", is a very good example for early musical comedies from Austria and Germany in the early 1930ies.

Even though Willi Forst preferred the (romantic) drama to comedies in his own directing work later on, I have to admit that I personally enjoy his early acting roles more. That man had a face, voice and style that are unique until this very day.

There are many very funny scenes in this movie, the best, to my opinion, being the one, when Willi Forst 'dubs' the shy, stuttering Paul Hörbiger from behind a curtain. Unforgettable!