Towards the Sun (1956)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Towards the sun |
| Original title | Run for the Sun |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1956 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Roy Boulting |
| script |
Dudley Nichols Roy Boulting Richard Connell (novel) |
| production |
Harry Tatelman Robert Waterfield Jane Russell |
| music | Fred Steiner |
| camera | Joseph LaShelle |
| cut | Frederic Knudtson |
| occupation | |
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Towards the sun (original title: Run for the Sun ) is an American adventure film directed by Roy Boulting for the production company Russ-Field Corporation from 1956 with Richard Widmark , Trevor Howard , Jane Greer and Peter van Eyck in the leading roles. The film was shot based on a novel by Richard Connell . (Alternative title: Hunt for Mike L.)
action
The journalist Katie Connors is on behalf of a New York newspaper to track down and interview bestselling author Mike Latimer after his disappearance. In a small Mexican village she finally finds the writer who has apparently completely lost his self-confidence after his last novel failure and, close to the existence of a drinker, lives withdrawn from the public.
After separating from his wife, who left him because of another man, Mike fled from Africa to Mexico , into both external and internal exile. When Katie finds Michael Latimer in this desolate state, she decides out of pity - as she adores and admires him for his real talent as a writer - not to write the story and to leave again. But Mike has already fallen in love with Katie and can finally persuade her to take her to Mexico with his little sports plane, as the roads to the Mexican capital are difficult and dangerous.
When they are in the air the next morning, Katie makes the mistake of putting her purse, which contains her magnetic notepad, next to the flight compass. The machine goes off course unnoticed and gets lost in the Mexican wilderness. Where only trees are in sight far and wide, Mike can make an emergency landing on a bumpy piece of meadow in the literal last second, just as the fuel runs out.
However, only a makeshift crash landing succeeds, which damages the plane and inflicts a head wound on Mike that temporarily robs him of consciousness. When Katie climbs out of the machine dazed, some men have already rushed to help, who have noticed the machine's demise. A man introduces himself as Mr. Browne and guides the two involuntarily stranded air passengers to his domicile, a kind of hacienda that is closely guarded by dogs and is well protected and hidden inland. After Browne and his colleague Dr. Van Anders introduced himself, the guests are quartered.
Katie and Mike soon realize they are "better" prisoners and Mike, who has suspicions about Browne, whom he thinks he knows, finally confronts him. In fact, it turns out that Browne is a wanted war criminal who, before the Second World War, sided with the Germans as a renegade British diplomat and carried out radio propaganda against his own compatriots. He married the sister of a Wehrmacht captain, who died in an air raid by the British during the war.
Dr. Van Anders, who hates the British and all allied allies, urges that the unwanted confidants of the long-kept secret be swiftly eliminated. Katie and Mike finally manage to escape at a favorable moment. The two flee into the Mexican jungle. Browne, Van Anders and the pilot Jan are hot on their heels with a pack of several fighting dogs. Katie and Mike, who become a couple on the run from death, succeed in decimating their pursuers and luring them onto the wrong track. With the last of their strength, they can finally save themselves in an old missionary church, which they barricade from the inside. Van Anders, who wants to get reinforcements from the locals to break open the door, leaves Browne alone in front of the door as a guard, but he is put out of action by a ruse by Mike. The two hunted then manage to flee to the reserve plane, which they can set in motion before Van Anders notices the renewed escape and shows up with his rifle. He shoots the aircraft taking off, but does not hit. A jam prevents him from taking another shot.
Before he can bring the rifle back into position, he is caught and killed by the propeller of the machine racing towards him. Mike and Katie are able to escape hell behind them by plane.
Reviews
“After an emergency landing in the Mexican jungle, a writer and a reporter fall into the hands of insane European (Nazi) criminals. Exciting and well constructed, albeit completely unrealistic adventure film with crime and horror elements. An updated remake of The most dangerous game ", USA 1932, directed by Ernest B. Schoedsack, Irving Pichel. (Alternative title:" Hunt for Mike L. ")" "
Production notes
The scenes are from Alfred Ybarra. James H. Garlock was responsible for the costumes, and Harry Maret was in charge of the mask . The film was set in Mexico .
Web links
- Towards the sun in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Towards the sun in: Cinema
Individual evidence
- ↑ Towards the sun. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .