Drillinge an Bord (1959) User Reviews

Fun with Heinz Erhardt

[PlanecrazyIkarus · 25 April 2002]

Heinz Erhardt was a genius. His short poetic funny verse jokes are incredible. Unfortunately, few of his movies benefit of the elegant and intelligent humour that he possessed.

This movie is one of the best to feature him, and for its time, it's even reasonably impressive on the special effects (having him play triple brothers in the same frame). The story is simple: Triplet brothers live in a flat, one is a poet, the other is a composer, the third is the maid for everything who cleans up behind the others and runs the flat. One day, the third (and youngest) brother steals a melody and a poem of his two elder brothers, mixes the two into a Schlager, and sends it to a contest, where he wins the first prize: A cruise. Unfortunately for him, his two brothers decide to tag along, resulting in lots of confusion and fun on the boat.

Old 1950s comedies aren't everyone's taste, but this is one I certainly liked a lot, and still do. The movie is carried by Heinz Erhardt delivering a good performance as three different characters. Too bad the dialogue does not have the same grace as his short verses, but it's still funnier than most his other movies.

Very comedy in West Germany from late Fifties

[cynthiahost · 10/10 · 7 June 2011]

In This comedy Heinz Erhart plays triplets brothers.One is an composer and another is poet.The third is doing is being a butler for them. The third one takes advantage of them and steals one of his brothers composed music and the other poetry. Creating the song,"charming boy,". He enters it in a music contest. As he watches it on the Variety show being played and sang, he wins the song contest. His other brothers find out and try to lock him in his room so they can get the prize. But he manages to escape. The prize is a cruise for one to Africa. As he goes to the ship, when he arrived at his room he hears a squeak noise. He goes to the bathroom and his brother, the composer, is already there.He also notices that his other brother , poet, also was there too was hiding in his big clothes case. Due to one ticket, each one has to be careful. A police man and women in the the ship searching for a notorious gangster. Wouldn't it be funny if in the script that they would be looking for Hitlers Henchmen? Paul Dahlke portrays that gangster and his Hench men, two men and a women, disguised as trio music band group. The man side of the police gets suspicious, as he gets his nails filed at the barber shop, when all three brother come in one at a time for a hair cut confusing the barber and hair dresser as being the same person.The detective thinks that Erhart is the gangster. He later goes to the women side of the team to tell her about it. Well The butler side of the trio goes to lunch a women,Trudi Herr who was in her thirties a lot younger than Hienz, portraying an older female tourist. It get's confusing after he finishes, the two other brothers show up one at a time confusing her too.Well the trio band get's also suspicious of Hienz and thinks that he is the police looking for them.So they plan to get rid of him. The female detective team disguises herself as a passenger to try to seduce the brother that the other detective got suspicious at. But it's the other brother. Paul Dahlke and his criminal team try to throw off the boat one of the brothers that they think is the police after them. But when they turn around he still on the boat cause they see the other brother not being aware that Erhart is triplets. One scene where Trudi Herr and Erhart are at Africa at a gambling eating restaurant where every body gets in a fight and one of Paul Dahlkes thugs try to shoot Erhart, only to take his gun away. The female Detective is with the poet brother at one of the Africa sites dressed in Arabian robes as she trying to find out if he the gangster.Back on the ship the women side of the detective team catches her male partner seducing the moll, not realizing who she is, she

get jealous. Well after more attempts to throw the brothers into the ocean thinking that one of them is the police and trapping the thugs in the ship, brothers are fully revealed. Trudi discovers that it was all three men that she knew. So she kisses each one of them to find out which one was the first

one she met. It was the third one The butler side of the three.Paul Dahlke and his henchmen are caught. At home as the three brother eat spaghetti, Trudi shows up for a visit and it turns out she also triplets too.

Erhardt triplets

[Horst_In_Translation · 4/10 · 10 June 2016]

"Drillinge an Bord" is a West German black-and-white movie from the year 1959, so it will already have its 60th birthday soon. The director is Hans Müller and the writer duo are Gustav Kampendonk and Lothar Koch. However, the real star here is of course lead actor Heinz Erhardt, who was the defining comedy actor from Germany back then and is still considered among the best the country had to offer ever. A lot of his success comes through his strong physicality. At times, he reminded me of a talking version of Fatty Arbuckle. And good news for his fans, he plays three characters in this film, triplets as the title already states. Unfortunately, like so many other times in Erhardt's career, the material is not on par with his talent. There are not many very funny moments and when the film dives into drama/crime terrain with the real criminals on board of the ship, it becomes completely uninteresting. Such a shame as Erhardt was kind of wasted here and there is little memorable about this movie apart from him appearing in three roles. The romance part was not good either. Thumbs down and I do not recommend the watch.