The border wolf
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The border wolf |
| Original title | Borderline |
| Country of production | USA , Mexico |
| original language | English , Spanish |
| Publishing year | 1980 |
| length | 99 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jerrold Freedman |
| script | Jerrold Freedman, Steve Kline |
| production | James M. Falkinburg |
| music | Gil Mellé |
| camera | Tak Fujimoto |
| cut | John F. Link |
| occupation | |
The border wolf (original title Borderline ; alternative title Borderline (Die Grenzlinie) ) is an American - Mexican feature film by the director Jerrold Freedman . Charles Bronson can be seen in the leading role .
action
Jeb Maynard works in California on the Mexican border with the United States Border Patrol . One night, his colleague Scooter Jackson was shot dead by the smuggler Hotchkiss while he was inspecting a truck in which illegal immigrants were being smuggled. The Mexican boy Benito, who wanted to see his mother Elena, who works in La Jolla , is also killed. The FBI believes that the murders involved drug smuggling and ends the investigation after the truck with the dead driver is found.
Maynard, however, continues to investigate and can persuade Elena to go with him to Mexico in order to illegally cross the border with a smuggler group from there. He hopes to track down the murderer. However, his plan does not work because the group is attacked and the leader abandons them. Later, his colleague Jimmy Fante tracked down the smugglers and Maynard found out that the gang wanted to smuggle a total of 2,000 Mexicans into the country over the Christmas holidays , divided into several groups. Together with his colleagues, he storms the farm that the smugglers use as their headquarters , and during the course of the night they receive the individual groups and arrest the smugglers. Hotchkiss, who led the last group, escapes arrest and escapes in his car, pursued by Maynard. When his car gets stuck, he continues to flee on foot. Maynard catches him, and when Hotchkiss shoots him, he shoots back, killing Hotchkiss in self-defense .
background
The Grenzwolf was filmed in California in East Los Angeles , San Diego , Ventura and the San Ysidro Mountains and in Mexico in Mexicali . The film arrived in the United States on 31 October 1980 in the cinemas . In the GDR it was published on June 4, 1982 under the title Borderline (Die Grenzlinie) , in the Federal Republic on May 31, 1985.
Cast and dubbing
The GDR synchronization was created in the DEFA studio for synchronization under the dialogue direction by Gerhard Paul based on a dialogue book by Eva Weise .
| actor | Spokesman for GDR synchronization |
Speaker BRD synchronization |
role |
|---|---|---|---|
| Charles Bronson | Dietmar Richter-Reinick | Michael Chevalier | Jeb Maynard |
| Carmine Murcelo | Katharina Lind | Barbara Ratthey | Elena Morales |
| Bruno Kirby | Tobias Master | Jimmy Fante | |
| Bert Remsen | Hermann Ebeling | Carl J. Richards | |
| Michael Lerner | Helmut Krauss | Henry Rydell | |
| Kenneth McMillan | Jochen Schröder | Malcolm Wallace | |
| Ed Harris | Wolfgang Condrus | Hotchkiss | |
| Enrique Castillo | Jürgen Kluckert | Arturo | |
| Wilford Brimley | Gerd Duwner | Scooter Jackson | |
| Norman Alden | Heinz Theo branding | Willie Lambert | |
| James Victor | Andreas Mannkopff | Mirandez | |
| John Ashton | Hans Nitschke | Charlie Monroe | |
| Lawrence P. Casey | Knut Reschke | Andy Davis | |
| Charles Cyphers | Manfred Petersen | ski | |
| Luis Contreras | Hans-Jürgen Wolf | bandit | |
| Murray MacLeod | Detlef Bierstedt | FBI agent | |
| Eduardo Ricard | Friedrich Georg Beckhaus | Mexican policeman | |
| Rodger LaRue | Manfred Petersen | reporter |
Reviews
"An unoriginal, simplistic variant of the much more successful genre film ' Grenzpatrouille ' by Tony Richardson , which does not meet the political and human dimensions of the subject."
“[...] although attempts are being made to seriously deal with the problem of illegal immigration to the USA, 'Der Grenzwolf' silts up on average - especially in comparison with the similarly designed 'Border Patrol' (with Jack Nicholson ). "
Web links
- Borderline in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The border wolf in the online film database
- Borderline at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b The Grenzwolf. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 31, 2016 .
- ↑ a b Borderline (The Borderline). In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous file , accessed on March 31, 2016 .
- ↑ The Grenzwolf. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous file , accessed on March 31, 2016 .
- ↑ The Grenzwolf on kino.de