Uprising in Sidi Hakim
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Uprising in Sidi Hakim |
| Original title | Gunga Din |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1939 |
| length | 108 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | George Stevens |
| script |
Joel Sayre , Fred Guiol |
| production | Pandro S. Berman |
| music | Alfred Newman |
| camera | Joseph H. August |
| cut |
Henry Berman , John Lockert |
| occupation | |
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Uprising in Sidi Hakim (original title: Gunga Din ) is an American adventure film by director George Stevens from 1939, which is based on the poem Gunga Din by Rudyard Kipling . The poem was rewritten into a story by Ben Hecht and Charles McArthur .
action
Northwest India around 1882: The British Fort Muri lost contact with the Tandipur outpost in the middle of a telegraphic message. Colonel Weed sends a small group of the British Army to investigate the situation. The force is led by three sergeants, MacChesney, Cutter and Ballantine. The three have been friends for a long time and are a thorn in the side of their superiors. But for a mission like this with only a few people in a combat zone, they're the best. A water carrier named Gunga Din accompanies the troops. Gunga Din wants to leave his slave existence behind and become a soldier of the Queen.
The troops find the outpost abandoned. The whole thing seems mysterious as they find prepared food on the tables that has not been touched. Ballantine encounters a strange group sneaking around a back room of a house. When he tries to arrest her, one of them tries to strangle Ballantine. With the help of MacChesney and Cutter, the Indians can be overwhelmed. The leader of the group makes it clear, however, that it is the British who are surrounded. The British fight their way out of the trap and return to Muri, exhausted and without weapons. They bring a pickaxe that Colonel Weed identifies as a Thuggee weapon .
Ballantine has only a few days left to serve with the troops. He plans to marry Emmy Stebbins and get into the tea business. MacChesney and Cutter are against the wedding. MacChesney invents a reason for staying away from Ballantine's release. He also uses a trick to get Ballantine to sign a blank form that, when filled out, binds him to the army for another nine years.
The force returns to the outpost. After some fighting and risky situations, MacChesney, Cutter, Ballantine and Gunga Din are captured by the Thugs . Their fanatical leader tells them his plans for conquest and forces them to watch an ambush being prepared for the British. Gunga Din, wounded by a bayonet, manages to climb the roof of the Thugs Temple with the last of his strength. He can sound a warning horn before he is shot by the Thugs. The British are alarmed and defeat the Thugs. At the funeral ceremony, Gunga Din was posthumously named a soldier in the British Crown.
background
Director George Stevens was the replacement for Howard Hawks , who was originally supposed to direct the film. But his previous film Leopards You Don't Kiss Me was a flop, so he was fired. Filming then took place in California and Arizona . At 1.9 million US dollars, the film was the RKO production studio's most expensive project to date and, after Gone with the Wind, was the second most successful film of 1939.
A remake in the Wild West was made in 1962 under the direction of John Sturges . In the western comedy The Victorious Three played Frank Sinatra , Dean Martin , Peter Lawford and Sammy Davis Jr. the main roles.
Reviews
The film-dienst described the film as an "adventure spectacle in a completely unrealistic colonial environment, but with irony and much-vaunted action scenes". For Cinema it was even the "mother of the adventure spectacle".
Awards
The film received an Oscar nomination for Best Cinematography in 1940 . In 1999 he was inducted into the National Film Registry of the National Film Preservation Board.
synchronization
The German dubbed version was created in 1951 by the RKO dubbing department in Berlin.
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Sgt.Archibald Cutter | Cary Grant | Wolfgang Lukschy |
| Sgt. Thomas "Tommy" Ballantine | Douglas Fairbanks Jr. | Peter Petersz |
| Sgt. MacChesney | Victor McLaglen | Eduard Wandrey |
| Gunga Din | Sam Jaffe | Walter Bluhm |
| Thugs leader | Eduardo Ciannelli | Alfred Balthoff |
| Chota | Abner Biberman | Werner Peters |
Web links
- Gunga Din in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Gunga Din at rotten tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Uprising in Sidi Hakim. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed May 27, 2017 .
- ↑ See cinema.de
- ↑ See synchrondatenbank.de ( Memento of the original from April 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
