Uncle Tom's Cabin (1965 film)

Onkel Toms Hütte
Onkel Toms Hütte
	Film poster
Directed by	Géza von Radványi
Screenplay by	Fred Denger; Géza von Radványi;
Based on	Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852); by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Produced by	Aldo von Pinelli
Starring	John Kitzmiller; Herbert Lom;
Cinematography	Heinz Hölscher
Edited by	Victor Palfi; Hans Schube;
Music by	Peter Thomas
Production; companies	Avala Film; Central Cinema Company Film; Debora Film; Melodie Film; Sipro;
Distributed by	Nora-Filmverleih
Release date	1965;
Running time	170 minutes (Germany); 118 minutes (U.S.);
Countries	West Germany; France; Italy; Yugoslavia;
Language	German
Budget	$10 million (North America); 9.97 million tickets (worldwide);

Uncle Tom's Cabin (German: Onkel Toms Hütte) is a 1965 German film directed by Géza von Radványi. The film was entered into the 4th Moscow International Film Festival.^[1] It is based on the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin.

In the early spring of 1977, the film was reissued in the United States in an edited form, with new scenes directed by Al Adamson. On the heels of the success that year of the miniseries Roots, the ad campaign for the reissue touted that the film had "ALL the SENSUAL and VIOLENT passions 'ROOTS' couldn't show on TV" and offered "the REAL story of the SLAVES, MASTERS & LOVERS."^[2]

Cast

John Kitzmiller as Uncle Tom
Herbert Lom as Simon Legree
Olive Moorefield as Cassy
O.W. Fischer as Saint-Claire
Catana Cayetano as Eliza
Gertraud Mittermayr as Little Eva
Mylène Demongeot as Harriet
Charles Fawcett as Mr. Shelby
Vilma Degischer as Mrs. Shelby
Thomas Fritsch as George Shelby
Bibi Jelinek as Virginia
George Goodman as Sambo
Juliette Gréco as Dinah
Harold Bradley as Harris
Eleonora Rossi Drago as Mrs. Saint-Claire

Reception

Box office

In France, it was the 63rd top-grossing film of 1965, selling 928,110 tickets at the box office.^[3] In Poland, it sold more than 2 million tickets, making it one of the thirteen highest-grossing foreign films in Poland as of 1968^[update].^[4] In North America, where it initially released in 1969, the film went on to sell 7,042,254 tickets and gross $10 million.^[5] This adds up to more than 9,970,364 tickets sold worldwide.

Critical response

Reviewing its 1977 reissue, Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune called the film "lousy", and, noting the comparisons its ad campaign made to Roots, remarked that "the only similarity is that both films contain scenes of slaves being whipped."^[6]

References

^ "4th Moscow International Film Festival (1965)". MIFF. Archived from the original on 2013-01-16. Retrieved 2012-12-08.
^ Ads placed in the Chicago Tribune, Detroit Free Press, the Philadelphia Inquirer and New York Daily News between March and April 1977
^ "Onkel Toms Hütte (1965)". JP's Box-Office (in French). Retrieved 26 June 2020.
^ Ford, Charles; Hammond, Robert (2015). Polish Film: A Twentieth Century History. McFarland & Company. p. 107. ISBN 978-1-4766-0803-7.
^ "Box Office USA - Die Erfolgreichsten Deutschen Filme Aller Zeiten" [Box Office USA - The Most Successful German Films of All Time]. Inside Kino (in German). Retrieved 26 June 2020.
^ Siskel, Gene (April 18, 1977). "'Wizards' courts the eye, but the magic stops short". Chicago Tribune. Section 2, p. 8.

External links

Onkel Toms Hütte at IMDb

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[Moscow1965-1] "4th Moscow International Film Festival (1965)". MIFF. Archived from the original on 2013-01-16. Retrieved 2012-12-08.

[2] Ads placed in the Chicago Tribune, Detroit Free Press, the Philadelphia Inquirer and New York Daily News between March and April 1977

[3] "Onkel Toms Hütte (1965)". JP's Box-Office (in French). Retrieved 26 June 2020.

[4] Ford, Charles; Hammond, Robert (2015). Polish Film: A Twentieth Century History. McFarland & Company. p. 107. ISBN 978-1-4766-0803-7.

[5] "Box Office USA - Die Erfolgreichsten Deutschen Filme Aller Zeiten" [Box Office USA - The Most Successful German Films of All Time]. Inside Kino (in German). Retrieved 26 June 2020.

[6] Siskel, Gene (April 18, 1977). "'Wizards' courts the eye, but the magic stops short". Chicago Tribune. Section 2, p. 8.

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v t e Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin
Characters	Uncle Tom
Film adaptations	Uncle Tom's Cabin (1903) Uncle Tom's Cabin (Thanhouser, 1910) Uncle Tom's Cabin (Vitagraph, 1910) Uncle Tom's Cabin (1914) Uncle Tom's Cabin (1918) Topsy and Eva (1927) Uncle Tom's Cabin (1927) Onkel Toms Hütte (1965) Uncle Tom's Cabin (1987)
Related works	A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin Tom show
Animation	Hittin' the Trail for Hallelujah Land (1931) Mickey's Mellerdrammer (1933) Uncle Tom's Bungalow (1937) Uncle Tom's Cabaña (1947) Southern Fried Rabbit (1953)
Anti-Tom literature	Aunt Phillis's Cabin The Planter's Northern Bride Little Eva: The Flower of the South Uncle Tom's Cabin As It Is Uncle Robin's Cabin "Uncle Tom's Cabin" Contrasted with Buckingham Hall, the Planter's Home Ellen; or, The Fanatic's Daughter The Ebony Idol Frank Freeman's Barber Shop The North and the South; or, Slavery and Its Contrasts Mr. Frank, the Underground Mail-Agent The Cabin and Parlor; or, Slaves and Masters The Black Gauntlet White Acre vs. Black Acre Antifanaticism The Lofty and the Lowly The Leopard's Spots
Related	Josiah Henson 1849 autobiography Uncle Tom's Cabin Historic Site Dimples Goodbye Uncle Tom Tit for Tat Uncle Tom syndrome Underground Railroad The National Era Onkel Toms Hütte (Berlin U-Bahn) Harriet Beecher Stowe House (Brunswick, Maine)