Sam Cooper's gold

Movie
German title	Sam Cooper's gold
Original title	Ognuno per sé
Country of production	Italy , Germany
original language	Italian
Publishing year	1967
length	110 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Giorgio Capitani (as George Holloway )
script	Fernando Di Leo Augusto Caminito
production	Luciano Ercoli Alberto Pugliese
music	Carlo Rustichelli
camera	Sergio D'Offizi
cut	Renato Cinquini
occupation
Van Heflin : Sam Cooper Gilbert Roland : Mason Klaus Kinski : Brent / the blonde George Hilton : Manolo Sanchez Sarah Ross : Annie Teodoro Corrà : pursuer Rick Boyd : Hal Brady Sergio Doria : Fred Brady Ivan G. Scratuglia : Marshal Giorgio Gruden : Lancaster Harry Reichelt : Slim

The Gold by Sam Cooper (OT: Ognuno per sé ) is an Italo-Western by Giorgio Capitani from 1967 . The translation of the original title was also the GDR cinema title: Everyone for himself .

action

The film varies the theme from John Huston's The Treasure of the Sierra Madre : After years of hard work, old Sam Cooper has finally found a gold mine. Since he cannot transport all of the gold away, he spills the entrance with a blast and makes his way through the scorching desert sun, accompanied by water scarcity, circling vultures and highwaymen on the way to the distant city. There he has his godchild, Manolo Sanchez, called over to help him recover the find. But Manolo is accompanied by the “blond”, a strange man who seems to dominate him. Sam has no choice but to accept his coming; so he persuades his old friend Mason, whom he had met, to travel too. Already on the way and when bandits attacked a mission station, the first differences became apparent; After the four have reached the mine and extract the gold, jealousies and mutual distrust break the unity of the men completely, whose mental and physical handicaps also become clear. All of Sam Cooper's companions pay for the exploitation of the mine with their lives.

Reviews

The lexicon of international films saw a “sometimes captivating Western, which, however, attaches too little importance to the character drawing and is lost in the appearance.” Ulrich P. Bruckner takes stock in his standard work that it is “an extremely successful [ …] Variant of John Huston's “The Treasure of Sierra Madre” with an excellent cast and an above-average […] score. ”“ It is precisely from the individual secrets, mutual alliances and power relationships of its protagonists that (the film) draws most of its tension from what it is more profound, but also more moral and American than many other spaghetti westerns of the time. "

synchronization

• Van Heflin: Wolfgang Lukschy
• Gilbert Roland: Friedrich Schoenfelder
• Klaus Kinski: Wolfgang Draeger
• George Hilton: Eckart Dux

Web links

• The Ruthless Four in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• DVD review by Thomas Groh

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Gold of Sam Cooper. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .  
2. ^ Bruckner: For a few more corpses. Munich 2006, p. 620
3. ↑ Steffen Wulf, booklet for the DVD edition by Koch Media. 2011, p. 8