Transitträume (1986)

Summertime...vacation timeThe beautifully-acted and sensitively-directed film ope[Expand All]

Summertime...vacation timeThe beautifully-acted and sensitively-directed film opens with a montage - half a dozen images of the bustling city in he summer time.A few of the loosely-connected scenes that were woven ogether have become classics:the funny sight-gag of repeatedly pickpocketing a Sheriff of a $5 dollar bill, to make it look like a $15 bill was paidthe famous "Tootsie-Frootsie" Ice Cream/Code Book scene at the racetrackthe Phone Call Impersonation sequencethe two Medical Examination scenesa clever Pantomime (Game of Charades) o indicate a frame-upthe Dinner-Date seduction and Wallpapering to the Wall scenethe destruction of a piano and its transformation into a harpthe climactic Steeplechase race sequenceThis was theonlyMarx Brothers film to receive a competitive Oscar nomination -- Dave Gould"s Best Dance Direction for the song/dance number "All God"s Children Got Rhythm" in he last part of the film.To prevent any further harm, Ash was able to hack and dismember Ed with an axe, producing gobs of green slime.In the procession came trumpeters and musicians and strange animals from the conquered territories, ogether with carts laden with treasure and captured armaments.McClane confronted Mai Linh in the control room, and engaged in an extended martial-arts fight and life-and-death struggle with her ("That"s enough of this kung-fu shit") - he eventually killed her when she was trapped in a vehicle that crashed in a fireball down an elevator shaft, after he had eliminated the remainder of her henchmen.[Collapse Section]