The lonely one from the west
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The lonely one from the west |
| Original title | Sledge |
| Country of production | Italy |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1970 |
| length | 93 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Vic Morrow |
| script |
Massimo D'Avack Frank Kowalski Vic Morrow |
| production |
Dino De Laurentiis Harry Bloom |
| music | Gianni Ferrio |
| camera | Luigi Kuveiller |
| cut | Renzo Lucidi |
| occupation | |
| |
A Man Called Sledge (Original title: Sledge) is a 1970 incurred spaghetti westerns , the American actor Vic Morrow with James Garner staged in the title role. The German-language premiere took place on November 29, 1970.
action
Luther Sledge has already had a tough time and is wanted in a wanted list when he and his bandit horde plan to steal a cargo of gold that is on the way to a fort. After a few attempts, due to the extremely good security, he discards the plan to do this himself during the transport. Instead, he lets one of his people, Erwin Ward, who pretends to be the law enforcement officer, take him as a prisoner to the warehouse where the valuable cargo is stored overnight. From the cell he can gain control of the fort and thus bring the gold into the gang's possession.
Some of his people gamble for their share and become destitute again; Fights and shootings among the bandits are becoming commonplace. They get so violent that Sledge's wife, Ria, is killed in an argument. Sledge turns now by all means against his former comrades-in-arms and can take out one after the other. But he also loses the gold in the end.
Reviews
A film magazine wrote in 1970: “A film like this one that literally takes its subject matter seriously and reveals such a lack of distance with finished set pieces has become absolutely impossible.” The lexicon of international film came to a similar conclusion: “With above-average Expenditure of filmed cliché westerns. ”The critic of the New York Times judged that a certain abstractness of the topic and sobriety of the presentation could lead to a lackluster film even with imaginative staging and fateful dialogues. Even the evangelical film observer does not think very much of the film: “From a spiritual point of view, an indisputable dozen items, not to mention artistic endeavors, but also materially already so poor and stingy that not the slightest attraction remains. Unpleasant."
Remarks
- Stefan Grossman sings the film song “Other Men's Gold” .
- In Italian sources Giorgio Gentili is listed as a director; Specifying a local as the main director was mostly for tax reasons.
- Several scenes were filmed in Polopos in the Almería region .
Web links
- A Man Called Sledge in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The film at comingsoon
Individual evidence
- ↑ The lonely one from the west. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ^ Review by Roger Greenspun
- ↑ Evangelical Press Association Munich, Review No. 505/1970
- ↑ http://www.western-locations-spain.com/andalucia/almeria/polopos/index.htm