100 rifles
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | 100 rifles |
| Original title | 100 rifles |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1969 |
| length | 110 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Tom Gries |
| script | Tom Gries Clair Huffaker |
| production | Marvin Schwartz |
| music | Jerry Goldsmith |
| camera | Cecilio Paniagua |
| cut | Robert L. Simpson |
| occupation | |
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100 Rifles is an American Western in 1969. The film directed by Tom Gries is based on a novel by Robert MacLeod , in the lead roles are Burt Reynolds , Jim Brown and Raquel Welch to see. The score was composed by Jerry Goldsmith .
action
A Mexican-Indian revolutionary, Yaqui Joe Herrera, steals 6,000 dollars from an American bank in 1912 and uses it to flee across the border to his home country to support the revolution. But the colored American law enforcement officer Lyedecker should track him down and secure the money. They are soon followed by Mexican law and the military. The ambitious General Verdugo wages a merciless war of extermination against the Yaqui Indians. The Mexican Sarita comes to the aid of the two, and so the three get caught in the middle of popular resistance against the despotic military regime of Mexico. With Leyedecker's cunning, Joe's courage and Sarita's feminine virtues, the revolutionaries succeeded in getting a train into the possession of the revolutionaries, with the help of which the army of revolutionaries can then be brought to Nolega, where Verdugo resides, for the final battle.
criticism
“Socially critical westerns with excellent action scenes and an abundance of partly melodramatic subplots.” Wrote the lexicon of the international film . The New York Times describes the film as loud, muddled and triumphantly empty, in which the three main characters in their roles would mostly trudge through the remarkable, parched landscape in order to avoid the pursuit of Fernando Lamas. Gries staged his action scenes brilliantly and wittily, while the clashes between races and nationalities pay homage to contemporary tastes in a somewhat penetrating manner, says Joe Hembus .
background
The premiere took place in the USA on March 26, 1969. In Germany, the film was first seen in cinemas on April 5, 1969.
The western was shot in Almería , Spain.
The scenes with Akim Tamiroff as general were cut from the finished film.
Web links
- 100 Rifles in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- 100 Rifles at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for 100 rifles . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , February 2010 (PDF; re-examination with changed youth approval).
- ↑ 100 rifles. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ^ Review by Howard Thompson
- ^ Joe Hembus: The Western Lexicon . Munich 1997, p. 320