Seven Slaps (German: Sieben Ohrfeigen) is a 1937 German comedy film directed by Paul Martin and starring Lilian Harvey, Willy Fritsch and Alfred Abel. Like the earlier Lucky Kids, which had the same director and stars, it was an attempt to create a German version of screwball comedy. While the previous film had a New York setting, this takes place in London.Rentschler p.118 It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art director Erich Kettelhut. It was loosely remade in 1970 as Slap in the Face.
Synopsis After he loses some money on the stock exchange, a young man seeks revenge on the speculator responsible by slapping him. He intends to slap him once every day for a week as retribution, but things become complicated when he becomes entangled with the speculator's attractive daughter.
Cast Lilian Harvey as Daisy Terbanks - Astor's Daughter Willy Fritsch as William Tenson MacPhab Alfred Abel as Astor Terbanks - Sein Finanzgewaltiger Oskar Sima as Wennington Laskett - Reporter Erich Fiedler as Ernie Earl of Wigglebottom Ernst Legal as Mr. Strawman Otz Tollen as Balthasar Adula Flanelli - Verwandlungskünstler Ernst Behmer as Bankangestellter Erwin Biegel as Aufgeregter bankkunde Erich Dunskus as Schmiedegeselle In Gretna Green Max Hiller as 1. Zuschauer beim Fußballspiel Horst Birr as Schmiedegeselle in Gretna Green Jac Diehl as Schutzmann Karl Harbacher as Sekretär Charly Hanns Waschatko as Butler Leslie Rudolf Klicks as 1. Bankdirektor F.W. Schröder-Schrom as 2. Bankdirektor Otto Stoeckel as 3. Bankdirektor Josef Reithofer as Detektiv Georg H. Schnell as Dr. Lorenz Walter Steinweg as Chauffeur Von Dr. Lorenz Max Wilmsen as Conférencier im Rostigen Nagel Charles Francois as Ein Mitarbeiter Von Astor Terbanks Paul Ludwig Frey as Ein Gast Im Kabarett Rostiger Nagel Eric Harden as Ein Zeitung lesendes Klubmitglied Albert Karchow as 2. Zuschauer beim Fußballspiel Gustav Püttjer as 3. Zuschauer beim Fußballspiel Paul Schwed as Detektiv Egon Stief as Starker Mann beim Fußballspiel Alfred Stratmann as Büroangestellter
References
Bibliography Eric Rentschler. The Ministry of Illusion: Nazi Cinema and Its Afterlife. Harvard University Press, 1996.
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