The last stand (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The last stand The last battle of the Sioux The revenge of Sitting Bull |
| Original title | Sitting Bull |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1954 |
| length | 105 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Sidney Salkow |
| script |
Jack DeWitt , Sidney Salkow |
| production | WR Frank |
| music |
Raoul Kraushaar , Max Rich |
| camera |
Víctor Herrera , Charles J. Van Enger |
| cut | Richard L. Van Enger |
| occupation | |
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The last stand , also The Last Battle of the Sioux or The Revenge of Sitting Bull , (original title: Sitting Bull ) is an American western by United Artists in Cinemascope technology from 1954 with Dale Robertson in the leading role. The film is set in 1876 in the US territory of Dakota or in what is now the states of Montana and North Dakota and is about an officer in the US Army who puts Indian rights above his personal career. It is based on the true events of the Battle of Little Bighorn and takes up several historical figures. It was shot in Mexico and was released in Germany on August 19, 1955.
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Major Parrish, demoted as a colonel, makes himself unpopular in his unit as an Indian friend. If white gold prospectors violate the agreements with the Indians on the reservation, he shows solidarity with the Sioux, to the annoyance of his superior Colonel Custer . Meanwhile in the Sioux camp, Sitting Bull and his followers, including his son Young Buffalo (young bison), are discussing the liberation of unruly tribal comrades penned in an internment camp. Young Buffalo is dispatched as a scout. Parrish, who was sentenced to military protection of the camp, immediately clashes with the unscrupulous civilian camp chief Webber. After Young Buffalo invades the camp, the Indians make a sortie, with Parrish forbidding shooting and allowing the prisoners to escape. Webber, furious, opens fire on the fleeing people and kills Young Buffalo in the process. So the Sioux are calling for war, but Sitting Bull is still hesitant.
Meanwhile, Parrish has arrived for an audience with President Grant . Although he is indignant about Parrish's insubordination and would like to discharge him from the army, he then agrees to a meeting with Sitting Bull suggested by Parrish. Grant gives Parrish a general power of attorney and demotes him to captain.
After gold prospectors kill all the Indians in their way, Sitting Bull is under increasing pressure to start the war. He sends after the other chiefs in order to be able to assemble a strong army and to buy time.
With his charter, Parrish obtained the release of prisoners imprisoned there, several Indians and a black allied with them, with the help of which he hoped to win Sitting Bull's favor for the interview with the president. He drags the warriors to the Sitting Bulls camp, whose warriors initially treat him hostile. After defeating one of them in a duel and sparing him, Sitting Bull welcomes him for an interview. He agrees to the summit, but demands that the president come to him. A little later, Grant's consent to the meeting actually arrives at the fort by telegraph, to the satisfaction of Sitting Bull, who now again refuses to go to war in anticipation of the president.
However, when troops under Colonel Custer advance without Grant's knowledge and a Sioux scout is shot by white scouts, he finally calls for war and Parrish, under Custer's command, is forced to fight the Indians. Custer assigns him to another unit against his protest, Custer's department is defeated by the Sioux and he himself is killed. During the victory celebration, Parrish appears in Sioux camp, where he is received as a traitor by Sitting Bull, but Parrish is able to appease him and warn of an approaching white superiority. The Indians then leave their tipis, where the soldiers only find Parrish.
He is sentenced to death for high treason and demonstratively demoted. Shortly before the planned execution, the summoned Sitting Bull appears in the fort and asks the president, who has now arrived, for Parrish's life. Ultimately, he will be spared as a peace hero, which the president had recently considered impossible under the constraint of the separation of powers, and the two great leaders parted in peace.
A subplot is Parrish's fiancée, Kathy Howell, daughter of the fort commander General Howell, who initially turns away from him because he is too morally at the expense of his career. After turning on another fiancé, a successful war correspondent, she eventually speaks out for Parrish and returns to him.
At the beginning, Sitting Bull introduces the events as a background narrator.
Reviews
"Crazy horse opera"
"Crazy Horse Opera"
"Historically not really accurate Western that is dedicated to the circumstances of the legendary Battle of Little Big Horn."
"Historically inconsistent Western, which at least tries to provide an objective picture of the Indians."
Others
- The film was released on DVD .
- In the 1965 film Decision on the Big Horn (originally The Great Sioux Massacre ), base material from the film was reused.
- Initially, Boris Karloff was intended for the role of Sitting Bull, but then, as previously in Duel in der Manege (in the original Annie Get Your Gun ), J. Carrol Naish played.
- Costume designer and technical consultant Iron Eyes Cody also played the Crazy Horse.
- Some Sioux were annoyed that, despite producer WR Frank's affection for them, the film was not made on their reservation near the location, but in the cheaper production location Mexico.
- After filming, Dale Robertson and Mary Murphy were married.
Web links
- The Stand in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ The New York Times. November 26, 1954.
- ↑ Kino.de
- ↑ The last stand. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed July 28, 2016 .