The Texas Rover
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The Texas Rover |
| Original title | Along Came Jones |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1945 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Stuart Heisler |
| script | Nunnally Johnson |
| production |
Gary Cooper William Goetz Walter Thompson |
| music |
Hugo Friedhofer Charles Maxwell Arthur Lange |
| camera | Milton R. Krasner |
| cut | Thomas Neff |
| occupation | |
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The Vagabond of Texas is an American western comedy film directed by Stuart Heisler and starring Gary Cooper and Loretta Young . Nunnally Johnson's screenplay is based on the novel Useless Cowboy by Alan Le May .
action
Melody Jones is a harmless cowboy who strays through life. When he and his friend George Fury come to the small town of Payne Ville, his life changes. The locals mistake him for the dangerous stagecoach robber and gunslinger Monte Jarrad and are afraid of Melody. The fearful man enjoys his new role as a person of respect. When he meets Cherry de Longpre, who is a childhood friend of Monte Jarrad and on whose farm the injured Jarrad is hiding, he falls in love with the attractive woman. Jarrad is now also a competitor for a woman and Melody Jones really has to muster up courage to win the heart of the beloved woman.
Reviews
"A rough comic western with some parodic approaches, which, however, are not continued by the prominent main actors."
"Wild west adventures designed for rough comedy [...]."
"[...] Parody of the Texas romance, slowed down by Cooper's lethargic, yet moving parody."
background
Gary Cooper was both producer and lead actor. It was his first western in five years and at the same time an attempt to parody his heroic status in western films. He worked again with director Stuart Heisler after My husband, the cowboy .
The RKO film made it to German cinemas in 1954. In this synchronized version, which is still in use today, Gary Cooper got the voice of Ernst von Klipstein .
literature
- Alan Le May: Useless Cowboy . Farrar & Rinehart, New York and Toronto 1943, 247 pp. (No German translation yet)
- Joe Hembus : The Western Lexicon - Extended new edition by Benjamin Hembus - 1567 films from 1894 to today . Heyne Film Library No. 32/207, Wilhelm Heyne Verlag Munich, original edition 1995, ISBN 3-453-08121-8 .
Web links
- The tramp of Texas in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- Jump up ↑ The Texas Drift. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ 6000 films. Critical notes from the cinema years 1945 to 1958 . Handbook V of the Catholic film criticism, 3rd edition, Verlag Haus Altenberg, Düsseldorf 1963, p. 456
- ^ Adolf Heinzlmeier , Berndt Schulz : Lexicon "Films on Television" (extended new edition). Rasch and Röhring, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-89136-392-3 , p. 868