Zärtliche Chaoten (1987, Germany)

A lightweight farce comedy; three hotel workers have a friendly rivalry for the affections of the beautiful Rosi (Dey Young), but when she becomes pregnant, no-one knows who the father is, until she delivers triplets, one for each man. The three men are played by Michael Winslow (Walker), Thomas Gottschalk (Ricky) and Helmut Fischer as the tubby chef, Schmidgruber. Winslow is the man with the creative sound-effects voice who was in several Police Academy films. Here their reivalry turns to prank-playing, and Walker decides to dupe Schmidgruber by pretending to be an attractive woman.

He pulls this off fairly well and when Schmidgruber invites the woman to his bedroom, Walker contrives to shut Schmidgruber out of the room and then play-act that the woman's husband has arrived and is beating her in the room; Walker of course provides the voices of both parties.

Later their attentions turn to money-making scams. One option is to talk up an invention to control bad breath, by bombarding a chemist with requests for a non-existent device, which one of them later tries to sell to the unsuspecting chemist. Appearing as a well-dressed lady, Walker is one of the bogus customers; he asks for sun-tan lotion as well.

The film was distributed in a version dubbed in American English under the title Three Crazy Jerks.

HF April 2003

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