When Hochstetter works to lower a French pilot's resistance to interrogation, Hogan brings the man's fiancee to camp to have Klink marry them.When Hochstetter works to lower a French pilot's resistance to interrogation, Hogan brings the man's fiancee to camp to have Klink marry them.When Hochstetter works to lower a French pilot's resistance to interrogation, Hogan brings the man's fiancee to camp to have Klink marry them.
Roy Goldman
- Prisoner of War
- (uncredited)
Storyline
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- TriviaThis was Felice Orlandi's first appearance on the show. He appears as a pilot for the Free French in this episode, but in later appearances he would play French Resistance fighter Maurice Dubois.
- GoofsAt the end of the wedding ceremony, we hear the strains of the Mendelssohn recessional, part of the incidental music to the production of A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM which has since become popular. Mendelssohn's music, however, had been banned in the 3rd Reich in toto since 1937 and in all occupied countries. The reason for the ban was primarily because his grandfather was the noted philosopher Moses Mendelssohn, considered the father of Reform Judaism. Mendelssohn had also been the target of Richard Wagner's infamous 1850 article "Judaism in Music" published under the pseudonym of Mr Freethought (Freigedank) but expanded considerably in 1868 under Wagner's own name.
- Quotes
Col. Wilhelm Klink: [at the rehearsal of the wedding Hilda dressed as the bride] I do not recall giving permission to Fraulein Hilda to be part of this.
Col. Robert E. Hogan: You can kiss the bride.
Col. Wilhelm Klink: Oh.
- ConnectionsReferences Hogan's Heroes: Hold That Tiger (1965)
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Shotgun Wedding Is Not So Gruesome
Having the King of Farce Richard Powell help fan-fiction fabricators Art Baer and Ben Joelson script their slight but marginally engaging story sounds like a marriage made in the circle of hell reserved for ridiculous sitcom ideas, but the shotgun wedding they perform for "Reverend Kommandant Klink" is not so gruesome after all.
Of course, it does require Colonel Klink, commandant of the prisoner-of-war camp Stalag 13, to regress to his obsequious-fool persona and hapless schmuck Schultz, his Sergeant of the Guard, to turn his blind but bulging eyes from the shenanigans that Hogan's Heroes, the intelligence and sabotage unit led by Colonel Hogan that operates covertly from Stalag 13, brazenly carry out in front of him, such as Corporal LeBeau escaping camp and heading to Paris, where he will--but we're getting ahead of ourselves.
When Free French fighter pilot Claude Boucher (Felice Orlandi) is shot down near camp, he is held in solitary between interrogations by Klink and Gestapo Major Hochstetter (Howard Caine), with Hochstetter suggesting that his fiancée, an actress in German-occupied Paris, might be cooperating rather more intimately with the Germans than Boucher would want to contemplate. Hogan, eavesdropping via the Heroes' bug in Klink's office, realizes that Boucher could crack and divulge the location of his secret fighter base in England if Hochstetter keeps pushing that infidelity and collaboration button, so he dispatches LeBeau, masquerading as an SS soldier, to the French capital, locate Boucher's fiancée Suzanne Martine (Susan Albert), and bring her back to Stalag 13 so they can be married by . . . Klink.
Let's pause, because even for farcical fan fiction there is a lot of baloney we need to swallow over and above the cringeworthy incompetence of Klink and Schultz. One thick slab is diminutive LeBeau as an SS soldier, one of the Aryan Supermen. Not so much. Another big slice is Boucher's marrying Suzanne to ensure her fidelity so he won't crack under interrogation. Let's be honest: Adultery has been going on for so long there's a Biblical Commandment against it.
And then there's the whole idea of how Klink is going to marry them, which--but how that actually occurs makes "Reverend Kommandant Klink" worth watching, particularly with some smart pacing and framing by director Gene Reynolds. Not that it's any more credulous than what we've got so far, but it's a neat, even touching, moment.
Moreover, what redeems this tall tale is Caine, who, in his second outing as the Gestapo major, has sunk his teeth into the part. In his early scenes with Orlandi, he glides effortlessly around him as if he's Karl-Otto Alberty cast in an A-list war picture. Unfortunately, that fades by the second half as Hogan rides in to stage-manage the contrivances despite Hochstetter's repeated demands to know "who iss ziss man?" but Caine whets the appetite to see more of this dangerously competent German character. That's not a ridiculous sitcom idea at all.
Of course, it does require Colonel Klink, commandant of the prisoner-of-war camp Stalag 13, to regress to his obsequious-fool persona and hapless schmuck Schultz, his Sergeant of the Guard, to turn his blind but bulging eyes from the shenanigans that Hogan's Heroes, the intelligence and sabotage unit led by Colonel Hogan that operates covertly from Stalag 13, brazenly carry out in front of him, such as Corporal LeBeau escaping camp and heading to Paris, where he will--but we're getting ahead of ourselves.
When Free French fighter pilot Claude Boucher (Felice Orlandi) is shot down near camp, he is held in solitary between interrogations by Klink and Gestapo Major Hochstetter (Howard Caine), with Hochstetter suggesting that his fiancée, an actress in German-occupied Paris, might be cooperating rather more intimately with the Germans than Boucher would want to contemplate. Hogan, eavesdropping via the Heroes' bug in Klink's office, realizes that Boucher could crack and divulge the location of his secret fighter base in England if Hochstetter keeps pushing that infidelity and collaboration button, so he dispatches LeBeau, masquerading as an SS soldier, to the French capital, locate Boucher's fiancée Suzanne Martine (Susan Albert), and bring her back to Stalag 13 so they can be married by . . . Klink.
Let's pause, because even for farcical fan fiction there is a lot of baloney we need to swallow over and above the cringeworthy incompetence of Klink and Schultz. One thick slab is diminutive LeBeau as an SS soldier, one of the Aryan Supermen. Not so much. Another big slice is Boucher's marrying Suzanne to ensure her fidelity so he won't crack under interrogation. Let's be honest: Adultery has been going on for so long there's a Biblical Commandment against it.
And then there's the whole idea of how Klink is going to marry them, which--but how that actually occurs makes "Reverend Kommandant Klink" worth watching, particularly with some smart pacing and framing by director Gene Reynolds. Not that it's any more credulous than what we've got so far, but it's a neat, even touching, moment.
Moreover, what redeems this tall tale is Caine, who, in his second outing as the Gestapo major, has sunk his teeth into the part. In his early scenes with Orlandi, he glides effortlessly around him as if he's Karl-Otto Alberty cast in an A-list war picture. Unfortunately, that fades by the second half as Hogan rides in to stage-manage the contrivances despite Hochstetter's repeated demands to know "who iss ziss man?" but Caine whets the appetite to see more of this dangerously competent German character. That's not a ridiculous sitcom idea at all.
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