Lucky Luke - His greatest trick
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| German title | Lucky Luke - His greatest trick | ||
| Original title | La ballade des Dalton | ||
| Country of production | France | ||
| original language | French | ||
| Publishing year | 1978 | ||
| length | 82 minutes | ||
| Age rating | FSK 6 | ||
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| Director |
René Goscinny Henri Gruel Morris Pierre Watrin |
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| script |
Pierre Tchernia after Morris René Goscinny (template) |
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| production | Georges Dargaud | ||
| music | Claude Bolling , German Reinhard Mey | ||
| camera |
Jacques Capo M. Gantier Pointis |
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| cut |
Pierre Chabal René Chaussy Henri Gruel Francis Nielsen |
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Voices of the OF
Voices of the DF
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Lucky Luke - His Biggest Trick is a French cartoon from 1978 . It is the second adaptation of the popular Lucky Luke comics after Lucky Luke from 1971 and before Lucky Luke - The Great Adventure from 1982. It is also the second and last film from the pen of the animation studio Idéfix after Asterix conquers Rome .
action
In the film, a saloon singer sings the story in rhymes and steps in here and there to sing a suitable verse.
How often do the criminal Dalton brothers sit in jail and, as usual, Rantanplan is their prison dog when a lawyer teaches them of the Dalton's "natural" death (he was hanged) of their uncle Henry. This uncle wants to appoint the Daltons as heirs in case they kill all of the jury and the judge who once tried Henry. Furthermore, Lucky Luke has to check this and then confirm it in front of the court, since the cowboy is the only man the deceased ever trusted. The Daltons want to get Luke to cooperate by apparently offering him part of the heir, but then actually killing him afterwards. So they dig a tunnel to get out of the prison and blow it up in the process. Yet they are at liberty. Rantanplan follows them.
After the Daltons stole four revolvers from an arms dealer, Luke learns about the robbery and finds Rantanplan. The criminals overwhelm him and so he pretends to be okay with a collaboration.
The six go to the first juror, a Chinese named Ming Li Foo, and on the way steal four horses from the former arms dealer who has changed his saddles. You arrive at the Asian's laundry room and have your clothes washed first. The former jury then holed up and Lucky Luke is supposed to kill him because the Daltons haven't got their clothes back yet. So the cowboy can fake a murder and the criminals move on.
Second on their list is prison director Thaddäus Collins. While they are on the move, they steal clothes from the former horse dealer, who has switched again. Luke goes to jail alone because the crooks don't want to take any chances. He finds Collins a broken man as all of his prisoners have escaped and he is left alone. While escaping from a secret passage, Lucky tells the crooks that Squidward doesn't want to come out. So they steal dynamite, again from the same dealer, and blow up the building.
As the third man, they have to move the Indian Serpent Feather out of the way, who lives in the desert. They fight their way to his tent, whereupon the Daltons want something to drink first. However, Snake Feather had mixed mushroom powder into the water, from which one got confused dreams. While the Daltons sleep, he befriends Lucky, whereupon the latter persuades Joe that he has already killed the "red skin".
At a restaurant, Joe, Will, Jack, and Averell ask about Dr. Smith, whom they must kill too. When they find him, he's completely drunk and the Daltons let him drink his poison, which is actually liquor. In your opinion, the fourth juror is finished.
This is followed by the gold digger Tom O'Connor, who has never found gold and who shoots anyone who approaches his mine. Once more Luke has to go ahead and can warn the man. The two pretend that Tom is long dead and only a ghost.
With the former cardsharp Sam Game, who is apparently converted today and is holding a heavily parodied service, the brothers first have to listen to the same thing, otherwise the other visitors will complain and not act squeamishly. Game plays Russian roulette one last time and is also successful in faking his death.
The penultimate juror is Bud Bugman, a train driver whose railroad derailed as a result of sabotage by would-be heirs, but then continues on off the tracks through the prairie. Luke jumps up and manages to fake murder again.
The last juror on the list is Matthias Bones, a coffin maker and gravedigger, and this time the siblings want to kill him all together. They lie in wait for him, but thanks to a new trick by the cowboy, they only destroy one doll.
So they only have Judge Grooby left. They take part in a rodeo tournament and then murder him at the reception. At the rodeo, Averell, who competes for the four, receives too many blows to the head and is mentally confused, so it is easy to prevent the murder but to fool it.
To the horror of the Daltons, all those "killed" are then present at the trial and sentenced to further years in prison (life imprisonment). The tricky cowboy rides happily singing into the sunset.
Reviews
"Moderately entertaining cartoon parody that draws its sparse charms only from a few surprising details and the joy of recognition."
"Although" Lucky Luke "inventor Morris [...] and" Asterix "writer René Goscinny directed the film, the filming is not much fun."
synchronization
Heinrich Riethmüller was responsible for the German adaptation of the film .
background
The story of the film can be read almost unchanged in the Lucky Luke volume "The Dalton Ballad".
The saloon singer is sung by Reinhard Mey in the German dubbed version .
The film points out the Dalton's common breakout flaw: each one usually breaks out through their own hole, making a total of four holes.
The Chinese washer Ming Li Foo , the gravedigger Matthias Bones and his vulture also appear in other comics in the Lucky Luke series.
During the dream illusions caused by snake feather's mushroom powder, the Daltons sing, among other things, “ Singin 'in the Rain ”, an allusion to a film of the same name by Gene Kelly (German: “You should be my lucky star”).
This was the last cartoon that Goscinny was involved in. He couldn't even see the premiere since he died a year earlier.
Web links
- Lucky Luke - Its biggest trick in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Lucky Luke - His biggest trick in the online movie database
- Lucky Luke - His biggest trick in the German dubbing file
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Lucky Luke - His biggest trick in the German dubbing file
- ↑ Lucky Luke - His greatest trick. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Lucky Luke - His greatest trick on cinema.de