Two rode together
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Two rode together |
| Original title | Two rode together |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1961 |
| length | 109 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | John Ford |
| script | Frank Nugent |
| production | Stanley Shpetner |
| music | George Duning |
| camera | Charles Lawton Jr. |
| cut | Jack Murray |
| occupation | |
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Two rode together (Original title: Two Rode Together ) is an American western by the director John Ford from 1961, based on the novel White Comanches (Original title: Comanche Captives ) by Will Cook .
action
Town Marshal McCabe is the business and life partner of the saloon owner Belle Aragon. He gets 10 percent of your profit. McCabe leads a quiet life until he lets himself be persuaded by First Lieutenant Gray and his superior Major Fraser to take on an assignment: Comanche kidnapped some white men years ago , and he is now supposed to free them, whether through ransom or combat. He is accompanied by Lieutenant Gary. Among the settlers searching for their loved ones abducted by Indians is the young Marty Purcell, accompanied by her father, Judge Purcell. She is still suffering from the kidnapping of her younger brother Steve, of whom only a small music box remains. McCabe warns her that Steve would not recognize her because he was kidnapped as a young boy almost ten years ago. Lieutenant Gary tries to comfort her. For the release of another boy, McCabe would receive a heavy reward from a settler named Wringle.
When he and Lieutenant Gary reached the Indian settlement and negotiated with Chief Quanah Parker, he found four trapped whites: three women and Running Wolf, a younger man. Quanah Parker agrees, in return for a reward, to hand him over the younger man against his will and also to release the three women. However, only a younger woman, the Mexican Elena, who was taken as wife of the Indian Stone Calf, agrees to voluntarily return to the whites with him. The other two women, however - Hanna Clegg, an old woman who is ashamed of her fate and considers herself long dead for her relatives, and Freda Knudsen, a young woman who married a Comanche and has children and is now called Wakana - want to stay with the Indians. McCabe, hoping Running Wolf is the son of the family that wants to reward him, takes him tied up with him. Stone Calf, a rival of Quanah Parker, tries to hold back his wife while the group is on their way - McCabe is forced to kill him.
After arriving at the white settlers, Running Wolf quickly makes it clear that he hates whites and considers himself a Comanche. Since he turns out to be very aggressive, Wringle refuses to take him with him. McCabe will not receive the promised reward. Settler Mrs. McCandless, who became mentally ill after losing her son, imagines that Running Wolf is her lost son. Out of love for her, her husband agrees to take him in.
Lieutenant Gary, who is in love with Marty, asks for her hand and she accepts the proposal. Meanwhile McCabe arrives with Elena. As a Mexican who got married to an Indian, she is treated with undisguised curiosity and even hostility by the white society in the fort. McCabe admires Elena, who copes with her distressing situation, and falls in love with her.
Meanwhile, Mrs. McCandless tries to cut Running Wolf's long hair with scissors. He steals her scissors and kills her. The settlers then want to lynch the killer, despite all attempts by Lieutenant Gary and Judge Purcell to stop them. When the men drag the fiercely struggling Running Wolf away, the wolf hits the music box, which begins to play its melody. He recognizes the melody and calls out the only words he still remembers: "Mine, mine!" Only now does it turn out that he is Marty's lost brother Steve. But it is too late - nothing can be done to save them. He is hanged by the angry settlers.
Elena now wants to try her luck in California . Upon his return, McCabe finds out that the Tascosa community has now proclaimed his former deputy sheriff as the new marshal, who also identifies himself as Belle's fiancé. McCabe renounces the reclamation of his office and decides to go to California with Elena.
background
For this film, Stewart first worked with director John Ford. The film was shot in Texas .
Reviews
The film service came to the conclusion that the western “often looks like a less consistent, less committed and less careful variation of The Black Falcon (1956)”. Within the genre he is "remarkable, but not convincing compared to the rank of his director". In short, Cinema said: "Little firing, funny palaver."
Joe Hembus judged that Ford appeared with this work "as cynical and uninterested as its hero McCabe". Phil Hardy noted in The Encyclopedia of Western Movies that the film was only made because Ford wanted to do Harry Cohn , the boss of Columbia , a favor. Ford offers the viewer "a nightmarish view of the frontier , which is inundated by hysteria and hypocrisy". Even the Indians in this film are nothing more than "primitive traders".
synchronization
The German dubbed version was created in 1961.
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Marshal McCabe | James Stewart | Wolfgang Lukschy |
| Lieutenant Gary | Richard Widmark | Arnold Marquis |
| Elena | Linda Cristal | Uta Hallant |
| Sergeant Posey | Andy Devine | Gerd Duwner |
| Major Fraser | John McIntire | Siegfried Schürenberg |
| Judge Edward Purcell | Paul Birch | Curt Ackermann |
| Mr. Harry J. Wringle | Willis Bouchey | Konrad Wagner |
| Greeley Clegg | Ken Curtis | Heinz Giese |
| Deputy Ward Corby | Chet Douglas | Michael Chevalier |
| Mrs. Mary McCandless | Jeanette Nolan | Tilly Lauenstein |
| Stone Calf | Woody Strode | Woody Strode |
literature
- Will Cook : White Comanches (Original title: Comanche Captives ). "The Best Westerns" series. German by HG Simon , PMS-Verlag, Rastatt 1985, 159 pp.
- Werner Dütsch: Two rode together . In: Film Genres - Westerns . Edited by B. Kiefer u. N. Grob with the collaboration of M. Stiglegger. Reclam junior, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-15-018402-9 ; Pp. 243-246.
- YES Place: The Westerns of John Ford (AKA: The Western Films of John Ford ). Citadel film books from Goldmann, Goldmann, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-442-10221-9 , pp. 212-226.
Web links
- Two Rode Together in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Two rode together. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ See cinema.de
- ↑ Joe Hembus: Western Lexicon - 1272 films from 1894-1975. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich Vienna 2nd edition 1977, ISBN 3-446-12189-7 , p. 734.
- ^ Phil Hardy: The Encyclopedia of Western Movies. Woodbury Press Minneapolis 1984, ISBN 0-8300-0405-X , p. 280.
- ↑ Two rode together. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on May 25, 2017 .
- ↑ See synchrondatenbank.de