Death rode on Tuesdays
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Death rode on Tuesdays |
| Original title | I giorni dell'ira |
| Country of production | Italy , FRG |
| original language | Italian |
| Publishing year | 1967 |
| length | 114 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Tonino Valerii |
| script |
Ernesto Gastaldi Renzo Genta Tonino Valerii based on the novel by Rolf O. Becker (Ron Barker) |
| production |
Henryk Chrosicki Alfonso Sansone |
| music | Riz Ortolani |
| camera | Enzo Serafin |
| cut | Franco Fraticelli |
| occupation | |
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Day of Anger (Original title: I giorni dell'ira) is a spaghetti western of the Italian director Tonino Valerii from 1967, from the novel by Ron Barker (Rolf O. Becker).
action
Scott is the orphaned son of a prostitute who is responsible for almost all menial tasks in his town. The residents of the city tolerate him, but he is treated more like an animal than a person. When the well-known gunslinger Frank Talby comes to town, Scott is full of admiration for the seemingly invincible and aloof Talby. The two start talking when Scott brings the horse into the stable for Talby and Talby invites him to the saloon for a drink. There Scott gets to feel that he is not wanted as a guest. But for the first time someone (Talby) stands in front of him and he takes the first drink of his life. Talby shoots a man who protests Scott's presence and draws his gun.
Fascinated by Talby and because after the incident in the saloon, now without Talby's protection, hard times would break for him, Scott rides after Talby as he leaves town and asks him to stay with him. Talby initially does not agree. But after Scott saves his life in the next town, he is allowed to stay with him. Talby teaches him how to shoot and the basic rules for surviving a gunslinger. He also equips him with new clothes and a revolver.
The two companions are now returning to Scott's hometown. Now Scott can no longer be pushed around and humiliated. With blackmail, threats and murder, Talby and Scott gradually take control of the city. Talby decides to stay in this town and wants to build a new saloon. To do this, he simply sets a fire in the existing one. Afterwards there is no longer even shrinking from killing the sheriff. Anyone who gets in their way will be shot.
The only person who didn't treat Scott like a second class person at the beginning of the film tries to convince Scott on his way to becoming an unrepentant and cold-blooded person. He warns him that Talby would soon try to get Scott out of the way too, because he would be too strong and too fast with the gun for him. Scott can't believe him.
This old friend is now going to be the sheriff. He tries to enforce a gun ban in the city. When he tries to disarm Talby, he is shot by him. It's too much even for Scott. He is now against his teacher and role model, and Talby puts his other men on Scott. However, this brings them all down.
In the final duel, Talby is shot by Scott.
Reviews
"A formally appealing spaghetti western with a gripping representation in the two main roles, but at the same time with some drastic severity."
- Joe Hembus considers the film to be " an educational novel dominated by cumbersome pedagogy, which today seems like a primitive preliminary study for Valerii's Nobody " .
- Georg Alexander wrote in film : “The apprenticeship and wandering years of a young hero along with confirmation of his theatrical mission. Psychological development and final purification (a social act is better than material success) included. "
backgrounds
Valerii was the assistant director on Sergio Leone's classic genres For A Fistful Of Dollars And For A Few Dollars More . The influences of Sergio Leone can be clearly felt in this film.
It was the only time that the two spaghetti western stars Giuliano Gemma and Lee Van Cleef stood together in front of the camera.
The film is available internationally in different versions and lengths.
Web links
- Day of Anger in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of release for Death Rode Tuesdays . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , January 2011 (PDF; test number: 38 396 V).
- ↑ Death rode on Tuesdays. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ^ Hembus, Das Western-Lexikon, 1995, p. 651
- ^ Friedrich Verlag, 1968
- ↑ schnittberichte.com, accessed on December 15, 2015