The Marshal

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Movie
German title The Marshal
Original title True grit
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1969
length 128 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Henry Hathaway
script Marguerite Roberts
production Hal B. Wallis
music Elmer Bernstein
camera Lucien Ballard
cut Warren Low
occupation

The Marshal (German DVD title Der Marshall ) is an American western starring John Wayne in the title role and directed by Henry Hathaway . It was shot in 1968 and premiered on June 11, 1969. The plot is based on the book The Brave Mattie by Charles Portis . The original English title True Grit literally means real cutting .

action

The action begins in Dardanelle, Yell County, Arkansas , around 1880 ; where the horse breeder Frank Ross says goodbye to his family. A little later, Frank Ross is shot dead on the street in Fort Smith by his assistant Tom Chaney for no reason. Chaney can flee the city. Ross' daughter, the teenage Mattie Ross, now desperately wants to pursue and catch her father's killer. Mattie originally only came to Fort Smith to identify her father's body, but now she desperately wants justice. She turns to the one-eyed and alcoholic Marshal Rooster (German roughly Hahn , Gockel ). Cogburn is a rough leg whose life has lost all meaning, but who knows his way around the Indian territory to which Chaney has fled and is also an excellent tracker. Since the authorities are tied in the search for her father's murderer, she hires Rooster Cogburn for 100 dollars, although she has been warned about the old drunk from many quarters.

The young Texas ranger La Boeuf also joins them, as Chaney had previously shot a senator in Texas . The three are in constant quarrel with each other on their ride. La Boeuf, trying to earn a bounty on Chaney in Texas , is a braggart. Old Cogburn is soon annoyed with his constant showing off. On the other hand, Cogburn feels sympathy with Mattie, who, despite her youth, proves to be tough and clever. Chaney is said to have joined the gang of the bandit Ned Pepper, with whom Cogburn still has an account to be taken.

Eventually the three pursuers encounter the killer Chaney in the company of Pepper's gang. Mattie can wound Chaney with her revolver, but when it no longer works for a second shot, the gang kidnaps the girl. During the liberation, the marshal shoots the culprits with the Winchester in one hand and the Colt in the other. La Boeuf saves his life twice before La Boeuf dies from the consequences of an injury. Now it is still a matter of getting Mattie, who has been bitten by a snake, to the medic Boots Finch as quickly as possible. The hero who has found his way back to himself succeeds in doing this too. In the final scene, Mattie Rooster offers to be buried in the Ross family's cemetery after his death, which he only refuses; but he accepts her offer.

background

The court scenes were filmed in this 1888 courthouse in the small town of Ouray , Colorado

The American western had its heyday in the 1940s and 1950s; by the time the film was made, the importance of the genre was already fading. Accordingly, the heroes often appeared tired and broken. So in this film, in which John Wayne plays an aged warrior, as in most of his later westerns. During this time, the spaghetti westerns that had emerged from the early 1960s had already overtaken their models from the USA. In addition, they were even more uncompromising in their portrayal of the broken heroes.

Reviews

  • Lexicon of international film : A broad-based western that tells its story with humor and is above average in terms of presentation and camera work.
  • Joe Hembus Western Lexicon: The glorious monument of Hollywood's Western tradition, an enormously young, fresh, all-encompassing work.
  • Prisma Online: In 1968, director Henry Hathaway staged this above-average late-wester as usual. John Wayne shines here above all with a strong pinch of self-irony.
  • Evangelischer Film-Beobachter, Review No. 403/1969: An altogether splendid old-style Western, which deserves praise from the script to the direction, camera work and music to the cast. As a pleasant contrast to the European exaggerations of the genre, it can be recommended to all friends aged 14 and over.
  • True Grit 'was a good western with great characters and a very authentic atmosphere, but suffered from the somewhat poor story, a pale Glenn Campbell and a Kim Darby who seemed too precocious, chatty and cheeky in the first scenes of the film. ( Thomas Jeier )

Awards

Twenty years after his first Oscar nomination for the war film You Were Our Comrade (1949), John Wayne received the trophy for Best Actor from last year's winner Barbra Streisand for the title role in The Marshal . Wayne's acting performance also earned him the Golden Globe for Best Actor - Drama and the Laurel Award .

continuation

In 1975 the film With Dynamite and Pious Sayings ( Rooster Cogburn and the Lady ) was a kind of sequel with a self-contained plot. John Wayne played the one-eyed marshal again, this time alongside Katharine Hepburn . It should be his penultimate film.

Remake

In 2010, the book was remade by the Coen brothers under the same title with Jeff Bridges , Matt Damon and Hailee Steinfeld in the lead roles. The Berlinale opened on February 10, 2011 with this film .

Soundtrack release

literature

  • Peter Osteried: The Great John Wayne Book ; MPW, Hille 2010, ISBN 978-3-931608-99-6 ; Ss. 536-541
  • Charles Portis : The Marshal and the Brave Mattie. Roman (OT: True Grit ). Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1984, ISBN 3-499-15387-4 (previously published by Rowohlt under the title Die courageous Mattie )
  • Mark Ricci, Joe Hembus (Ed.): John Wayne and his films (OT: The Films of John Wayne ). Citadel Movie Books. Goldmann, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-442-10202-2

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Marshal. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. ↑ Thomas Jeier: The Western Film. - Orig. - Munich: Heyne, 1987 (Heyne Filmbibliothek; 32/102) - ISBN 3-453-86104-3 , p. 164f