There was no name on the ball

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Movie
German title There was no name on the ball
Original title No Name on the Bullet
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1959
length 77 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Jack Arnold
script Gene L. Coon
production Howard Christie
music Herman Stein
camera Harold Lipstein
cut Frank Gross
occupation

On the ball no name on it ( English : No Name on the Bullet ) is an American Western of Jack Arnold from the year 1959 on a story by Howard Arnacker . The film opened in German cinemas on August 28, 1959.

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The hit man John Gant shows up in Lordsburg. Gant is known for provoking his opponents for so long that they take up arms first. As a result, Gant always acts in self-defense and in compliance with the law.

A queasy feeling quickly spreads among the citizens. Some citizens suspect that they themselves are the gunslinger's target and think they know who commissioned Gant. There are the bank owner Ted Pierce, the businessman Earl Stricker and the farmer Ben Chaffee, the three of whom are connected by a dubious business around a mine. Henry Reeger has also created enemies in the past with illegal business. Only Dr. Luke Canfield, the town's doctor and son of the blacksmith, first befriends Gant. The longer Gant stays in town, the more the residents suspect each other of hiring the gunslinger. Everyone thinks they have caught a conversation between Gant and his obvious client.

Stricker and Pierce are even looking to speak to Gant directly and bid twice the amount of his contract if he were to leave town. Gant refuses. In a panic, Pierce finally commits suicide in his bench when Gant is playing chess with Canfield. Sheriff Buck Hastings then tries to denounce the gunslinger as the alleged cause of the city's panic. The sheriff is also tempted to threaten Gant with a gun, whereupon Gant injures him. Lou Fraden suspects himself to be the target, since a few years ago he unhooked someone's woman. He puts Gant drunk in the saloon, but eventually flees from the confident gunslinger.

In an interview with Hastings, Luke and Anne, Luke's fiancé, Anne's seriously ill father, the retired Judge Benson, believes that you can only defeat Gant if you don't defend yourself. When several angry citizens try to drive Gant out of town, Gant remains calm. He agrees with the angry mob that they cannot shoot everyone, but he knows who to start with and lists the names of the leaders Stricker and Reeger. The group then dissolves. Ben Chaffee also feels himself a target of Gant, instigated by Stricker for deceiving the mine. He rides with his men to Lordsburg and begins a shootout with Stricker and his men, in the course of which both Striker and Chaffee perish.

In the meantime, Anne has discovered an old record from her father which proves his involvement in the illegal appointment of the incumbent governor and his deputy. Anne then realizes the gunslinger's goal, he's targeting your father, who suggested not to fight back. She goes to town to convince Gant to spare her sick father. In an interview with Gant, she even reveals the old judge's plan not to defend himself if he is provoked. Gant tears a piece of her blouse from Anne's body, locks her in an adjoining room and leaves town in the direction of Benson Farm. There the judge is already waiting, who is clearly at fault. As intended, he cannot be provoked. Only when Gant shows the piece of fabric from Anne's blouse and pretends to have offended her, the judge can no longer contain himself. Gant leaves the building, the judge follows him with a rifle, but before he can shoot Gant, he has a heart attack and dies on the steps in front of the surprised gunslinger.

Luke and his father arrive at the farm after freeing Anne too late to prevent the judge's death. Gant can only evade the attack with a pistol shot in Luke's shoulder. He hits Gant on his right arm with a thrown blacksmith hammer. Gant is unable to use his weapon. When Luke's father reports to his son that the old judge was not shot by Gant at all, Luke realizes that he is sending Gant to certain death with this incapacitating injury. Gant declined the offer to look at the arm with the words “everything has an end”.

criticism

Cinema called the western a gripping lesson.

The Kino.de portal certifies the film a tension and counted the film to the better Murphys.

DVD

A German release of the film on DVD was released in 2010. The Blu-ray Disc was released in 2017.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Film review on Cinema.de, accessed August 13, 2019
  2. Film review on kino.de , accessed August 13, 2019