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Waiting for the rain to stop so I can go home from my office... so this is a task for me. Why do you need all the movie summaries, by the way?

Mr. Poppe, played by Leif Juster, the most famous norwegian comedy actor of his time, is the distracted manager of a ski resort hotell. He runs the hotell well in his own fuzzy manner, but is frustrated that the owner never comes to check on the state of things, just calls on the phone or writes letters to complain of Poppe. Poppes biggest problem is he would like to have a car that could pull the skiers up to the top of the mountain, so they didn't have to do all the up hill skiing themselves. Everybody agrees that the hotell would bee much better had it had such a service. So, finally, he takes initiative himself and orders the car.

In the city, then, the owner is in his office with his daughter, when he hears what Poppe has done, and is insulted and angry. "He acts like he owns the hotell" etc. He wants to fire Poppe, but his daughter convinces him he can't do that without even having met the man. As the owner is far to busy to actually go to the skiing resort himself, the daughter, Ruth, decides she will go up there and check the scene out. Which she does, in a sort of under cover mission, dressing up as a boy piccolo under the name of Rudolf.

The film then continues in a standars farse manner, there is a mix up between a famous actor and a very bookish nerd who just happens to be his total lookalike, there is Poppe believing he is crazy (also because of his attraction to piccolo Rudolf), there is Ruth falling in love with neurotic Poppe (and Poppe thinking "Rudolf" really needs to do some weight lifting), and in the end there is of course the hotell owner arriving to see the whole hotell in a state of madness, wanting to fire Poppe, but being stopped by Ruth confessing to be a girl and in love with Poppe. And then they run the hotell together.

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I saw it and I didn't like it

that all I have

When there's no more room in hell, The dead will walk the earth...

Watched it again today as is tradition for Easter! And I laughed hard several times again! This movie is a classic for sure! I'm glad I have it on DVD :)