Bravados
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Bravados |
| Original title | The Bravados |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1958 |
| length | 97 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Henry King |
| script | Philip Yordan |
| production | Herbert B. Swope Jr. |
| music | Lionel Newman (Cover story: Alfred Newman , Hugo Friedhofer ) (New version 1962) |
| camera | Leon Shamroy |
| cut | William Mace |
| occupation | |
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Bravados (Original title: The Bravados ) is an American western by the director Henry King from 1958, which is based on the novel by Frank O'Rourke . The film premiered in Germany on August 1, 1958. The film about a fatal campaign of revenge is one of the best works of the very experienced, but comparatively seldom used in the US homeland genre, the craftsman of the 20th Century Fox ; it was also the fifth of six collaborations Kings with lead actor Gregory Peck .
action
The rancher Jim Douglass arrives after the alleged murderer of his wife has been pursued in vain in the small town of Rio Arriba to investigate whether the four bank robbers Bill, Ed, Leandro and Alfonso, who are to be hanged there the next morning, are the wanted. He doesn't know the perpetrators face to face, but he does have a description of the ethnic makeup of the quartet, and that applies to the death row inmates. In the commune there is an unexpected reunion with Josefa Velarde, with whom he had a relationship five years earlier in New Orleans before he married someone else and had a daughter named Helen. Because of the crime, he is not prepared to revive the affair, and Josefa, who has asked for it, does not actually want to accompany him to the church, where a mass is being held because of the extraordinary event. But he changes his mind and enters the house of God. This delights another stranger, who poses as the executioner Simms to Sheriff Sanchez. In reality it is an escape helper, and although he is killed in the action, the four delinquents managed to escape. When they are buying rifles and ammunition from the local shop, Emma Steinmetz turns up there to get some medicine for her father, who was in pain in the church; Zachary, a refugee fixated on women, immediately takes her as a welcome hostage. While the four ride away, the seriously injured sheriff alerts the residents.
At the insistence of Emma's father, a farce is put together, but Douglass, to Josefa's astonishment, does not want to ride along at first; he believes in his knowledge of the behavior of criminals and that he alone has a better chance. For their part, the refugees fear less the farce than the loner, who is completely unknown to them despite the previous confrontation in the sheriff's custody. As a result, the pursuers around Douglass, who has now joined them, discover the corpse of an unknown person; it is evidently the real executioner. The outlaws decide to leave Alfonso Parral to shoot Douglass; However, the rancher sees movement in the grass, and a little later the first wanted man is dead, although he had declared that he had never seen the killed woman - shown by Douglass as a picture in his pocket watch. Then Ed Taylor is supposed to take over the elimination of the ruthless, but his attempt also fails; he is hung upside down in a tree by Douglass and dies. In the meantime, Josefa has learned a little more about the fate of the ex-lover from the father and wants to take care of Helen, who is staying with Mexican ranch helpers; together with a friend she rides after the posse and Douglass.
The two remaining gangsters arrive at the house of Douglass neighbor John Butler, a reclusive silver prospector. He immediately fears for his life and flees, carrying a small sack with him. Zachary shoots him and then turns to Emma, whom he can finally rape undisturbed. The fourth member of the gang, the young Mexican Leandro Lujan, examines the corpse, finds the bag filled with coins and hides it from the accomplice. After they left for the Mexican border, first Douglass, then Josefa and finally the posse come to Butler's hut. Later, at the border river, the responsibility of the men led by Deputy Primo ends, which is why Douglass rides on alone to San Cristóbal, where he tracks down Zachary in a cantina; He, too, asserts that he has never seen the woman in the small picture, but also catches a bullet after pulling his weapon. Now only Lujan is left, who stayed in the background of the tavern, but can still be followed by Douglass.
The Mexican reaches his poor dwelling, where his wife Ángela has to look after a sick toddler. As he is fetching some water, Douglass arrives and prepares to kill the last fugitive, but Ángela anticipates the danger and knocks the American out with a clay jug. When he regains consciousness, Lujan wants to know the reason for the deadly mission from him, because he doesn't know the woman in the picture either, but admits that he rode past the Douglass ranch with his accomplices on the way to the Rio Arriba raid. The avenger does not believe him because he recognizes the bag - it belongs to him, contained his family's savings. Lujan claims to have taken the bag from the dead butler, and after a few seconds of doubt, Douglass realizes that only his neighbor could have been responsible for the murder of his wife; he leaves Lujan in peace and rides back. In the church he asks for forgiveness and seeks help from the Father, who puts him off the fact that the four should have died like that too. Douglass does not accept this, and so the clergyman says he should seek answers in prayer. Then Josefa and her daughter join in, and when the trio leaves the church, applause breaks out from the residents who have been brought in. The recovered sheriff gives a short acceptance speech and stresses that Douglass will forever remain in the hearts of the people of Rio Arriba. The rancher, who is now staying with Josefa, replies curtly that he should also be included in her prayers.
background
The exterior shots of the film, shot in color and cinemascope , were made in Mexico, but not in the western stronghold of Victoria de Durango , but west of Mexico City in the state of Michoacán ; Henry King had already filmed parts of his historical adventure The Captain of Castile (1947) here, in the vicinity of municipalities such as Morelia and Uruapan . Cinematographer Leon Shamroy , a close associate of Kings and four-time Oscar winner, played a major role in the success of Bravados ; his many dark and semi-dark shots, created according to the day-for-night principle, congenially underline the gloomy plot and form an excellent contrast to the gold-yellow interior shots, especially of the church altar. Other well-known participants in the production were Lyle R. Wheeler (five Oscars) as film architect, Walter M. Scott (six Oscars) as set designer and costume designer Charles Le Maire (three Oscars).
Reviews
The lexicon of international films described the film as "Western in front of an imposing natural backdrop, convincingly played and consistently exciting". Joe Hembus noted in his Western Lexicon that Western fans would be reluctant to follow the fate of the character portrayed by Peck, as she would break under the pressure of her fate. They would be compensated “by a staging that confidently handles landscapes and confrontations and also with bold ideas [...]”. Phil Hardy called the film in The Encyclopedia of Western Movies a "routine Western " who suffered from a lack of theatrical intensity on the part of Peck; Joan Collins's performance would be ruined by her "bad riding skills". For Thomas Jeier , Bravados in Der Western-Film was one of "the best films on the subject of revenge". The Protestant film observer also praised the treatment of the subject: “Extraordinary wild west about the problem of vengeance. Both in the design and in the presentation equally impressive. Recommended for ages 16+. "
Awards
Albert Salmi received the National Board of Review award for Best Supporting Actor in 1958 . In 1959, when the Laurel Awards were presented , Gregory Peck came third in the Best Actor in an Action Film category.
synchronization
The German dubbed version was created in 1958 by Elite Film Franz Schroeder GmbH Berlin under the dubbing direction by Alexander Welbat and based on the dialogue book by Wolfgang Schick .
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Jim Douglas | Gregory Peck | Heinz Engelmann |
| Josefa Velarde | Joan Collins | Marion Degler |
| Bill Zachary | Stephen Boyd | Horst Niendorf |
| Ed Taylor | Albert Salmi | Rainer Brandt |
| Lujan | Henry Silva | Eckart Dux |
| Emma Steinmetz | Kathleen Gallant | Dorle Hintze |
| Tom | Barry Coe | Michael Chevalier |
| Gus Steinmetz | George Voskovec | Robert Klupp |
| sheriff | Herbert Rudley | Curt Ackermann |
| Alfonso Parral | Lee van Cleef | Arnold Marquis |
| Father | Andrew Duggan | Horst Naumann |
| Primo | Ken Scott | Benno Hoffmann |
| John Butler | Gene Evans | Heinz Giese |
Web links
- Bravados in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- International movie posters on posterdb.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Certificate of release for Bravados . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , March 2005 (PDF; new edition with modified youth approval).
- ↑ Bravados. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Joe Hembus : Western Lexicon - 1272 films from 1894-1975 . Carl Hanser Verlag, 2nd edition, Munich Vienna 1977, ISBN 3-446-12189-7 , p. 70.
- ^ Phil Hardy: The Encyclopedia of Western Movies . Woodbury Press, Minneapolis 1984, ISBN 0-8300-0405-X , p. 262.
- ↑ Thomas Jeier : The Western Film . Heyne Filmbibliothek, 32/102, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-453-86104-3 , p. 142.
- ↑ Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 511/1958.
- ↑ Bravados. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on June 27, 2017 .
- ↑ See synchrondatenbank.de ( Memento of the original from April 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
