The wolf chases the pack

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Movie
German title The wolf chases the pack
Original title Tightrope
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1984
length 115 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Richard Tuggle
script Richard Tuggle
production Clint Eastwood ,
Fritz Manes
music Lennie Niehaus
camera Bruce Surtees
cut Joel Cox
occupation

The wolf chases the pack (original title: Tightrope ) is a thriller by Richard Tuggle , which was produced in the USA in 1984 . The leading roles are cast with Clint Eastwood and Geneviève Bujold .

action

Police investigator Wes Block works in New Orleans . He has two daughters whom he is raising alone. The divorced man spends a lot of time with prostitutes who engage in sadomasochistic practices.

Block is looking for a serial killer who kills prostitutes. The killer leaves no usable traces. One of the women is killed shortly after Block's visit. Some evidence even suggests that Block was the culprit.

The investigator gets to know the feminist and policewoman from the moral department Beryl Thibodeaux, who teaches the women in a women's center how to defend themselves against attacks. She promises Block to stand up for him with the mayor, whom she knows personally, which leads to the expectation of faster investigations.

Block and Thibodeaux's acquaintance turns into friendship, then into relationship. Meanwhile, the broken glass block leads to one of the crime scenes in a brewery. Leander Rolfe is employed there, a former police officer who Block arrested for rape 11 years earlier.

Rolfe raids Block's house, kills the housekeeper and ties up his daughter Amanda. Block can scare away the killer in time. He blames himself for not being able to foresee the killer's move in time. Thibodeaux comforts him.

Block and his colleague Molinari are guarding Rolfe's apartment. In Block's house, Thibodeaux and a uniformed policeman are watching out for the girls; two more policemen are waiting outside. When one of them is killed and can no longer be reached by radio, Block becomes suspicious. He rushes to his house while Rolfe kills two more police officers. The murderer attacks Thibodeaux, Block comes to her aid in good time. Rolfe flees, Block follows him to a marshalling yard. There it comes to close combat, in which Rolfe is run over by a train and killed.

criticism

Roger Ebert compared the thriller in the Chicago Sun-Times with the "big police films" of the 1940s. However, like the other contemporary police thrillers, the film contains violence, simplified psychology and stereotypical characters. The scenes in which Block speaks to the women are particularly successful; especially the scenes with Eastwood and Bujold.

"Eastwood was courageous enough to play at full risk with this ambivalent character after being the brutal ' Dirty Harry ' - with success! Conclusion: Visually fascinating, gripping, disturbing. "

- Cinema.de

“Action cinema trimmed for tension, which lives primarily from the presence of its main actor; towards the end, however, the film relies too much on played out brutalities. "

- Lexicon of international film

“Richard Tuggle made a gripping, extremely sinister and self-deprecating Eastwood film with pornographic dialogues in the style of the 'Dirty Harry' films. Especially good: Genevieve Bujold as the representative of the local women's self-defense center. "

- Prisma.de

Award

Alison Eastwood was nominated for the Young Artist Award in 1985.

Economic success

The action thriller, which was filmed on locations in New Orleans until March 1984 , was shown on August 16, 1984 at the Montreal World Film Festival . It brought the producers $ 48.1 million at the box office. Another $ 22.5 million was made in the US video business.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Roger Ebert : Tightrope Critique in the Chicago Sun-Times (English)
  2. ↑ The wolf chases the pack on cinema.de
  3. ↑ The wolf chases the pack. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed July 11, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  4. ↑ The wolf chases the pack on prisma.de
  5. ↑ Awards for The Wolf Chases the Pack on the IMDb
  6. ↑ Filming Locations for The Wolf Chases the Pack on the IMDb
  7. ↑ Box office / business for The wolf chases the pack on the IMDb