The Tank
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The Tank |
| Original title | tank |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1984 |
| length | 110 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Marvin J. Chomsky |
| script | Dan Gordon |
| production | Irwin Yablans |
| music | Lalo Schifrin |
| camera | Donald Birnkrant |
| cut | Donald R. Rode |
| occupation | |
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The Tank is an American action comedy starring James Garner .
action
The soon to be retired Command Sergeant Major of the US Army Zack Carey gets his last posts allocated. He meets the Deputy Euclid Baker. Carey stops this corrupt cop from abusing prostitute Sarah, who was arrested for vagrancy by the corrupt Sheriff Cyrus Buelton and then forced into prostitution. However, the city is under the control of the sheriff. He regards Carey as a troublemaker and demands money from Carey; But Carey lets Buelton appear several times.
Buelton wants revenge and tries by all means to make life difficult for Carey. When he finally arrested Carey's son for an alleged drug offense and refuses to give in despite a lavish bribe, Zack Carey decides to take the law into his own hands: with his self-assembled Sherman tank and the help of Sarah, he now goes against the sheriff and frees his son and all other prisoners from a sheriff's education camp. After the successful escape, the sheriff asks Carey's superiors for military help in the pursuit. He refuses, because Carey submitted his military resignation shortly before the flight and is therefore only subject to civil jurisdiction, and the army has no legal authority to interfere in civil affairs. In addition, the spectacular liberation of his son Carey and his companions has given him the status of folk hero; the majority of the public openly supports her, so that Buelton finds little support in his attempts to mobilize them to support him.
Carey tries to get to neighboring Tennessee with his son to get a fair hearing there. Under public pressure, led by Carey's wife, the governor of Tennessee is now seeking a political solution and promising Carey a fair hearing.
In sight of the border, Buelton and his men finally manage to make the tank unfit to drive with a German Panzerschreck . However, a motorcycle gang manages to pull the tank and its crew across the border to Tennessee with a steel cable. All the spectators, the governor and Carey's former supervisor help out, and in the end it succeeds in moving the tank across the border and leaving Sheriff Buelton in the end as a loser.
Awards
The film was nominated for Best Family Film Drama for the Young Artist Award in 1985.
Reviews
The film magazine Cinema attested the plot “a lot of tanks and little brains”. The lexicon of international films found the film "[briefly] entertaining, but too emotionally arousing and militant in its plot."
Web links
- The tank in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- The tank at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The tank. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed July 13, 2017 .