"Im weißen Rößl" or "The White Horse Inn" is an Austrian / West German German-language co-production from 1960, so this 100-minute film had its 55th anniversary last year. The director is Werner Jacobs and he was quite successful back then. Same can be said about some of the cast members such as lead actor Peter Alexander and Adrian Hoven as well as Karin Dor from the supporting cast. The latter two you usually find in serious, sometimes scary, films, but the fact that Alexander is in here tells us that this is a comedy and one with lots of romance too. In the end basically everybody has fallen in love. And one of the worst aspects about this film is how predictable it all was and how uninspired it was in moving towards the happy endings for everybody, something you could already predict very early in the film. And when they simply weren't able anymore pretty early on already to elaborate on the two protagonists, they kept including more and more characters and just revolved the story around them. A pretty bad example of quantity over quality. This is also true looking at how many writers worked on this garbage film. I must say the first 30-45 minutes were still somewhat okay as Alexander carried the film nicely, but the longer it went the messier and messier it became. I personally cared for almost none of the characters in this movie and that's always a deal-breaker. This may partially have to do with my lack of interest, but partially also with the filmmaker's failure to get the audience involved emotionally. 4/10 is still very generous here. The second half was even weaker, but Alexander saved it from becoming a massive failure. But he alone also can not make it a good watch. Stay away, I say.
Review of The White Horse Inn
