The man from Laramie

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Movie
German title The man from Laramie
Original title The Man from Laramie
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1955
length 101 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Anthony Mann
script Philip Yordan ,
Frank Burt
production William Goetz
music George Duning
camera Charles Lang
cut William A. Lyon
occupation
synchronization

The Man from Laramie is an American western written by Anthony Mann in 1955. It is based on the short story The Man from Laramie by Thomas T. Flynn, which was published in the Saturday Evening Post in 1954 and which was also published in book form a year later .

action

Will Lockhart, Army Captain on leave from Laramie , wants to avenge his murdered brother. Criminal profit hunters had sold smuggled modern bolt-action rifles to the Indians, and the wicked trade cost his brother his life. Lockhart wants to finish off the criminals and at the same time expose the people behind them. When Lockhart discovers the victims of a slaughter in New Mexico in which the Apaches killed an entire cavalry patrol, he knows that he has come closer to the criminals.

Lockhart arrives in Coronado, where he meets the beautiful owner Barbara in a shop. There is serious tension in the area between two farms, the barbar ranch owned by old, powerful Alec Waggoman, who owns the whole area and who runs Coronado, and the crescent ranch owned by Kate, a gray-haired old woman. The tension is both competitive and an old personal discord.

When Lockhart tries to load salt outside of town, Vic Hansboro, the foreman of the Barb Ranch, and Dave, old Alec's son, and his people stop him. In an unequal battle, Lockhart loses his cart, mules, and his own horse. Lockhart returns to Coronado in anger and beats up Vic and Dave at the next opportunity. When a murder is to be blamed on him, he ends up in prison, from which he can only be released again with the help of old Kate. Lockhart started working for Kate. While driving a cattle he is attacked again by Dave and defends himself, where he shoots Dave in the right palm. When Dave's people arrive, they overpower Will, and Dave shoots the defenseless man in the right hand in revenge.

When Dave tries to get help from the Indians, with whom he does business, he is shot dead in self-defense by Vic Hansboro. He is involved in the arms business himself and sees his business in danger through Dave's behavior. Dave's father, Alec, knows nothing of these entanglements. In the meantime Lockhart suspects that he can only decipher the puzzles at the Barb Ranch.

The increasingly blind Alec is shaken by the death of his son and suspects Will Lockhart to be the murderer. He rides up to Kate to kill Lockhart. This fails and Alec slowly realizes that his own son was involved in the arms trade with the Indians. He's now looking in the mountains for a car loaded with repeating rifles. On the way he is pushed down a steep slope by Vic, his foreman, who tries to prevent him from doing so. Alec is accidentally found by Will, who is also looking for the truckload of weapons in the mountains, survives seriously injured and can now clarify the truth to his rescuer. Now it is Lockhart's turn to pursue the fleeing foreman. He rides after Vic into the mountains and can just park him near the hidden car. When Vic was already calling the Indians to collect the weapons with a smoke signal, a fight broke out in the hiding place of the car, in the course of which the car with the rifles fell down the steep slope and the ammunition exploded in front of the Indians just approaching on the plain .

Lockhart doesn't have the heart to avenge his brother and kill the now defenseless Vic, and lets him ride away. On the run, Vic rides into the midst of the horde of angry Indians - they had already paid for the now destroyed arms delivery - and is killed by them on the spot. Lockhart returns safely to the Barb Ranch, where Alec is now being looked after by helpful Kate. Will has nothing more to do in Coronado and is returning to Laramie, but not without inviting beautiful Barbara, who has clearly taken a liking to him, to an early visit.

background

Director Anthony Mann made a film for the first time in CinemaScope . It was James Stewart's and Anthony Mann's fifth and final collaboration on a western. As with their previous collaborations, the psychological element plays an important role in this film - sometimes referred to as the western version of King Lear . Later in 1955, Mann and Stewart's final collaboration took place on the war drama In A Secret Command Matter.

The theme song The Man from Laramie , written by Lester Lee and Ned Washington , was sung by a choir in the opening credits. The singers Al Martino and Jimmy Young also interpreted the film song. Young's version was particularly successful, and in October 1955 it was number 1 in the British charts for four weeks.

synchronization

The German dubbed version was created for the cinema premiere.

role actor German Dubbing voice
Will Lockhart, man from Laramie James Stewart Siegmar Schneider
Vic Hansboro Arthur Kennedy Curt Ackermann
Alec Waggoman Donald Crisp Eduard Wandrey
Barbara Waggoman Cathy O'Donnell Margot Leonard
Kate Canaday Aline MacMahon Eva Eras
Dave Waggoman Alex Nicol Horst Niendorf
Charley O'Leary Wallace Ford Werner Lieven
Chris Boldt Jack Elam Friedrich Joloff
Sheriff Tom Quigby James Millican Hans Wiegner
Frank, Indian shop clerk Was Eagle John Peter Elsholtz
Father Frank De Kova Siegfried Niemann
Doctor Selden Eddy Waller Robert Klupp
Fritz Gregg Barton Franz Nicklisch
Spud Oxton Boyd Stockman Manfred Meurer

criticism

“Mann's westerns are like his main actor: slow, almost phlegmatic. You have a lot of time to look around and a lot of space. "

- Frieda Grafe in the Süddeutsche Zeitung

"Exciting western, carefully staged and well played."

“A Wild West film of a higher level than usual, remarkable in terms of presentation and direction. An entertainment film that can also be viewed by young people aged 14 and over. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The man from Laramie in the German dubbing index
  2. The Man from Laramie. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed October 27, 2019 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. Ev. Munich Press Association, Review No. 864/1955