It's the seventh's turn
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | It's the seventh's turn |
| Original title | Seven Men from Now |
| Country of production | United States |
| Publishing year | 1956 |
| length | 78 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Budd Boetticher |
| script | Burt Kennedy |
| production |
Andrew V. McLaglen Robert E. Morrison John Wayne |
| music | Henry Vars |
| camera | William H. Clothier |
| cut | Everett Sutherland |
| occupation | |
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It's the turn of the seventh (original title: Seven Men from Now ) is a 1956 American western film by director Budd Boetticher and starring Randolph Scott .
action
Seven bandits raid a Wells Fargo stagecoach station and kill the wife of ex- sheriff Ben Stride. Stride goes on a campaign of revenge in which he shoots two of his wife's seven murderers. Together with the settler couple Greer, he continues the search for the rest of the gang. Two men named Masters and Clete join them.
Stride and Masters save the life of a young man who turns out to be one of the murderers. He is shot by Masters. After Masters and Clete have separated from the small group, they come across the four remaining perpetrators with their leader Bodeen in Flora Vista. Bodeen tells Masters that the unsuspecting Greer is the carrier of the gold that was looted in the attack. When the bandits learn that Stride is riding with Greer, two of them attempt to ambush Stride. Stride shoots her and learns that Greer is transporting the gold in his wagon. Greer, out of repentance and reparation, decides to go to Flora Vista to confront Bodeen. Greer is killed by Bodeen when he tries to inform the sheriff.
Bodeen and his last crony ride to Stride, Masters and Clete to get the loot back, but are shot by them. Masters kills Clete to get hold of the gold. Only Stride still stands in the way of this goal. Masters wants to kill him, but Stride pulls faster.
Awards
In 2005 the film was nominated for the Satellite Award in the Outstanding Classic DVD category.
Reviews
- “ My admiration for Budd Boetticher does not lead me to believe that Budd Boetticher is the greatest western director - although I do not want to rule that out as a possibility - but simply to state that this film is arguably the best western I've been in saw the war. (…) What we should first admire about “Seven Men from Now” is the script that manages the 'tour de force' to constantly surprise us despite its rigorously classic plot. No symbols, no philosophical implications, not a shadow of psychology, nothing but ultra-conventional characters, embroiled in extremely familiar processes, but put in place in an extraordinarily ingenious way, with a mobilization of details that make every scene interesting. "(From the film review by André Bazin )
- “ Seven Men from Now does tabula rasa and cleans away everything that the last few decades in jewelry and make-up of a genre that is perhaps at its most beautiful in its nudity has served up. "( Joe Hembus )
- The lexicon of international films judges the film to be "an uncompromisingly tough, but dramaturgically and visually imaginative film, which after originally reserved criticism was later chosen to be the epitome of the pure, ideology-free Western."
literature
- Fritz Göttler in Film Genres - Western / Ed. By Thomas Koebner . Reclam junior, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-15-018402-9 ; Ss. 209-214
- Gregor Hauser: Muzzle flashes: The 50 best B-Westerns of the 50s and their stars . Verlag Reinhard Marheinecke 2015, ISBN 978-3-932053-85-6 . Pp. 121-124.
- Joe Hembus : Western Lexicon. 1324 films from 1894–1978 . Approved, revised paperback edition, Heyne, Munich 1978, ISBN 3-453-00767-0
Web links
- Seven Men from Now in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Bazin's criticism appeared in the August / September 1956 issue of the French film magazine Cahiers du Cinéma (quoted here from Joe Hembus: Western-Lexikon. Gen., revised Tbausg., Heyne, Munich 1978, ISBN 3-453-00767- 0 , p. 562f)
- ^ Joe Hembus: Western Lexicon. 1324 films from 1894–1978 . Approved, revised paperback edition, Heyne, Munich 1978, ISBN 3-453-00767-0 , p. 562
- ↑ It's the seventh's turn. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .