On a Friday in Las Vegas
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | On a Friday in Las Vegas / Las Vegas, 500 milliones |
| Country of production |
Germany Spain France Italy |
| original language | Spanish |
| Publishing year | 1968 |
| length | 124 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi |
| script |
Lluís Josep Comerón Jo Eisinger Jorge Illa Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi |
| production | Nat Wachsberger |
| music | Georges Garvarentz |
| camera | Juan Gelpí |
| cut |
Elena Jaumandreu Emilio Rodríguez |
| occupation | |
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One Friday in Las Vegas is an international co-production crime film by Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi from 1968.
action
Years later, gangster Gino escapes from prison. He plans coups again and ignores warnings from his younger brother Tony that times have changed and that film and computer surveillance are now playing a major role. There is a rift; Gino is killed in the attack on a cash truck belonging to the haulage company Steve Skorsky, as the police are on site after a short time thanks to the latest surveillance methods. Tony vows to avenge his brother.
Tony starts out as a croupier in a Las Vegas casino . He begins an affair with Skorsky's secretary, Ann Bennett, with whom he engages in a major betting fraud. He is also scouting out Skorsky's cash transports. He realizes that transports from Las Vegas to Los Angeles are traversing the Mojave Desert during the journey , which police vehicles take a while to reach. He lets Ann in on his plan and after a while can get her to get the travel routes that were communicated by computer at short notice earlier. So Tony plans the robbery on a Friday.
Tony does not know that Skorsky is also targeted by Douglas, an employee of the Treasury. Irregularly, but always accompanied by three specific Skorsky employees, he appears to be transporting money as well as illegal gold bars that are handed over to the mafia during the journey and brought to Mexico. Douglas can smuggle his way into Skorsky's company as a supposed insurance employee and thus find out the next transport in the suspicious triple occupation: It is the Friday transport that Tony wants to ambush.
Tony and his men raid the transport and manage to turn off all surveillance mechanisms. They shoot the two drivers and drive the transporter over metal gutters through the sand to an underground hiding place. They cover their tracks by helicopter until the car seems to have been swallowed by the ground. Douglas and Skorsky are at a loss. Meanwhile, underground, Tony and the others try to get into the car, which is electronically locked. Tony wants to weld the car on, but comes into conflict with the impetuous Cooper, for whom everything is not going fast enough and who therefore wants to blow up the car with dynamite. Cooper finally leaves the hiding place in an argument; Tony's men are killed by the two occupants of the car, but shortly afterwards they die themselves in the hail of bullets. In the end, only Tony is left. He manages to open the car. Here, in addition to the money, he also finds the smuggled gold bars. He leaves the car behind and gets in touch with Ann. This has long been suspected of having revealed the transport times to a third party. She is followed, but is able to flee to Tony. Tony drives her to the hidden van, where Cooper has already arrived. He wants to finally blow up the car with dynamite and keep the money. Skorsky has also arrived at the scene because he wants to secure the contraband and hand it over to the Mexican mafia. All are monitored unnoticed by Douglas, who has since revealed himself to Skorsky as an employee of the treasury. Cooper blows up the car; the violent explosion destroys the money. Only the gold bars remain. Douglas can now arrest Skorsky for smuggling, while Tony starts to laugh at how events unfold.
production
On a Friday in Las Vegas is based on the novel Les hommes de Las Vegas by André Lay . The filming took place in Los Angeles, Las Vegas and in the desert of Tabernas (scenes in the Mojave desert).
The film premiered on October 31, 1968 in Madrid and was also shown in German cinemas on March 7, 1969. In 1969 the film was also approved in an abridged version with an FSK 16 rating, but in 1996 it received an FSK rating from 12 years of age.
synchronization
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Tony Ferris | Gary Lockwood | Horst Stark |
| Ann Bennett | Elke Sommer | Ursula Herwig |
| Steve Skorsky | Lee J. Cobb | Friedrich W. Building School |
| Gino | Jean Servais | Wolfgang Amerbacher |
| Leroy | Georges Géret | Michael Chevalier |
| Douglas | Jack Palance | Heinz Petruo |
| cooper | Fabrizio Capucci | Arne Elsholtz |
| Mafia boss | Roger Hanin | Rainer Brandt |
| Salvatore | Gustavo Re | Toni Herbert |
| merino | Daniel Martín | Thomas Eckelmann |
| Clark | Maurizio Arena | Rolf Schult |
| Sheriff Klinger | Gérard Tichy | Gerd Martienzen |
| Brian | Rubén Rojo | Lothar Blumhagen |
| Chief Inspector Morton | George Rigaud | Kurt Waitzmann |
criticism
One Friday in Las Vegas for film-dienst was a “[s] pervasive, brilliantly technically designed crime thriller.” Cinema called it a “[c] oole [n] scope thriller, dynamically assembled” and a “[ g] skilfully staged crook adventure ”. The Protestant film observer complains that the film is sometimes too long and too hard, but sums up that it is “exciting and good ready-made goods”.
Awards
On a Friday in Las Vegas 1968 won four awards from the Sindicato Nacional del Espectáculo: in the categories of best film, best director, best film construction ( Juan Alberto Soler , Antonio Cortés ) and best technical achievement. The film received two awards from the Círculo de Escritores Cinematográficos in 1969 in the categories of Best Film and Best Director and won a Sant Jordi Award for Best Film.
Web links
- On a Friday in Las Vegas in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- On a Friday in Las Vegas at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ^ On a Friday in Las Vegas in the German dubbing file
- ^ On a Friday in Las Vegas. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ See cinema.de
- ↑ Evangelical Press Association Munich, Review No. 108/1969.