On your own (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | On your own |
| Original title | Ride Lonesome |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1959 |
| length | 73 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Budd Boetticher |
| script | Burt Kennedy |
| production | Budd Boetticher |
| music | Heinz Roemheld |
| camera | Charles Lawton Jr. |
| cut | Jerome Thoms |
| occupation | |
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On your own (original title: Ride Lonesome ) is an American western from 1959.
action
Ben Brigade captures the killer Billy John to take him to Santa Cruz and collect the ransom. On this trip he rescues the director's wife at a post office and also takes her with him to Santa Cruz. The two crooks Sam Boone and Whit join them and help Brigade. Their goal is to get the prisoners to Santa Cruz alone, and they are not interested in the money as a reward, but in the amnesty that it gives them to start a normal life. Little do they know, Ben Brigade's goal is entirely different. He wants revenge on Billy John's brother Frank, who killed Brigade's wife by hanging years ago. Billy John is just the bait. Shortly before Santa Cruz they meet at the gallows tree and the brigade can shoot Frank. He then leaves Sam and Whit to the prisoners and burns the gallows tree on which his wife was murdered.
Reviews
- Christoph Huber on the WDR website: With its own on fist , the penultimate of the seven Western Budd Boetticher minimalist Ranown cycle, took place the expansion into wide Cinemascope format. The story unfolds with appropriate serenity. The murder of ex-sheriff Randolph Scott's wife, which motivates the plot, was so far back that the perpetrator can hardly remember it: 'I almost forgot,' says the bandit Frank. Action and suspense are only hinted at, while the main characters move almost aimlessly through the wide landscape and tap each other for strengths and weaknesses in conversations that seem like psychological chess games. The result looks almost abstract, but Boetticher's essentialist staging provides anchoring: The tragic and ironic volts of Burt Kennedy's script gain resonance - not least in the original portrait of two reform-minded, joking outlaws - one of them James Coburn in his cinema debut.
- Lexicon of international films : A former sheriff avenges his wife, who was hanged by bandits, by luring the perpetrator into a trap by arresting his brother. A leisurely western of subtle tension, dispensing with superficial action.
- Phil Hardy describes the film as a “magical western” based on an “elegant script” . He is the optimistic one of Boetticher's westerns with Scott. Together with one does not give up (1960) and Zwei ritten together (1962) the film is "the climax of the B-Western" and "constant evidence of the suppleness of the genre."
- Joe Hembus calls the film "one of the great tragic-ironic westerns from the so-called Ranown cycle."
literature
- Gregor Hauser: Muzzle flashes: The 50 best B-Westerns of the 50s and their stars . Verlag Reinhard Marheinecke 2015, ISBN 978-3-932053-85-6 . Pp. 157-160.
Web links
- On your own in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ On your own. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ^ Phil Hardy: The Encyclopedia of Western Movies. Woodbury Press Minneapolis 1984. ISBN 0-8300-0405-X . P. 269
- ↑ Joe Hembus: Western Lexicon - 1272 films from 1894-1975. Carl Hanser Verlag Munich Vienna 2nd edition 1977. ISBN 3-446-12189-7 . P. 42 The Ranown cycle describes the westerns that Boetticher shot together with Ran dolph Scott and Harry Joe Br own in the 1950s. The scriptwriter was mostly Burt Kennedy