The fiery arrow of vengeance
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The fiery arrow of vengeance |
| Original title | L'arciere di fuoco |
| Country of production | Spain |
| original language | Italian |
| Publishing year | 1971 |
| length | 107 minutes, German version: 82 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Giorgio Ferroni |
| script |
Ennio De Concini Manuel Torres Larreda Giorgio Stegani André Tranché |
| production | Ernest Boetan |
| music | Gianni Ferrio |
| camera | Giuseppe Pinori |
| cut | Antonietta Zita |
| occupation | |
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The fiery arrow of vengeance (original title: L'arciere di fuoco ) is an adventure film produced by Giorgio Ferroni exclusively in Spain from 1971, filming locations were Castell de Cardona , Catalonia and Barcelona . Another version of the well-known Robin Hood films is shown. The main actors are the Italian actor Giuliano Gemma , one of the most famous actors in the genre of the Spaghetti Western , as Robin (Sir Henry), Silvia Dionisio as Lady Marian and Mario Adorf as Brother Tuck. The German premiere of the film was on September 7, 1971.
action
1195: Sir Henry of Nottingham returns with the German knight von Wattenberg, an envoy of Emperor Henry VI. , returned to England from the Crusades. Together with the envoy, he brings the king's brother, Prince John, the news that Richard the Lionheart has been captured in Austria and will only be released for a large ransom. Both notice that John's joy at the news that his brother the Lionheart is still alive and do not really believe his ransom promises, so they leave the viceroy with mixed feelings and polite phrases. Henry decides to take care of the matter himself, which he assures von Wattenberg.
On the way, they are already expected by the bailiffs Sir Roberts who are supposed to murder them. He rides with the German knight into a hiding place and explains a safe way back to him. Henry wants to return to Nottingham, where his father, the rightful Sheriff of Nottingham, has been ousted by Sir Robert. He stops at an inn, where he is about to take a bath, but then he hears the clang of weapons in the guest room and someone declaring his loyalty to Richard the Lionheart. He quickly pulls on a shirt and then helps one of the Anglo-Saxons, who are under pressure from several Norman warriors. After the wild brawl, Henry recognizes him as his childhood friend Allen Adaile, the greeting and the joy of reunion are accordingly warm, but when Henry has changed into chain mail and gear, Allen has already disappeared. Henry follows his trail into the forest, where he is robbed in his sleep. He follows the thieves and comes to a hut, where he finds his things again and meets several outlaws, whom he defeats and ties up one after the other. But when Little John, the leader of the small group, arrives, Henry first gets a beating with John's club and a cool bath when he falls from a small bridge into the water in the midst of the crowd. Now Henry is tied up and sits sneezing in the hut while Little John's cronies, especially Brother Tuck, make fun of him. But now Allen Adaile comes in through the door and explains to the others that Henry is a friend and Anglo-Saxon who only recently saved him, and vouches for him. Henry then decides to join the outlaws. Since he is only wearing chain mail, the miller's son, Muck, gives him the things of his brother Robin, who was murdered by the men of Sir Robert. Since Henry doesn't want to admit who he really is, he takes his name and calls himself Robin Hood from now on .
Together with his newly won companions, he rounds up the oppressed Anglo-Saxons, and from now on they rob the rich Normans to get the ransom for King Richard. But then Muck is caught poaching, just as he is running to a hunted fallow deer. It says the death penalty. When the beautiful Saxon noblewoman Marian comes to his aid, she declares that she shot the stag herself, as the old heiress of the Anglo-Saxon nobility and thus her right. The unscrupulous, self-proclaimed Sheriff of Nottingham, Sir Robert, also lets them be captured without further ado, but of course he thinks of somehow winning the beautiful woman. Muck, who is to be hanged with other Anglo-Saxons, is rescued from the gallows by Robin, Brother Tuck and their companions from the Sherwood in a bold and cunning operation. To stop Robin the trade, the sheriff organized an archery tournament and promised Robin Hood impunity. Robin comes - unrecognized - to Nottingham and gets to know Lady Marian, who also shoots, but loses to Robin. Robin falls in love with her, does not reveal to her that he is Henry of Nottingham, to whom she was engaged to be many years ago. When he has also defeated the sheriff in the shooting and has to flee with his band because the sheriff has broken his word, he takes Marian with him, who is happy to have escaped the hated Sir Robert. She stays with Sherwood's outlaws, but keeps repelling Robin's advances without knowing who he is. But Robin decides to win her love and only then to reveal herself.
The king's ransom has now been collected in England, but Prince John would rather collect it himself and never see his brother King Richard again. Robin and his companions break into Nottingham Castle at night and steal the money, but are discovered. So that the faithful can escape with the ransom, Robin can be captured, he is tortured in Sir Roberts' dungeon. The next day, Marian makes the sheriff an offer to marry him if he lets Robin go. He agrees with great pleasure, but his lover, Matilde, wants to get rid of the rival and wants to help Marian and Robin to escape. The three are discovered, Matilde is killed by an arrow, Robin is imprisoned again and the sheriff's wedding preparations are accelerated. In the Sherwood Forest, unknown knights arrive at the outlaws, after a rough duel with Little John, the winner lifts his helmet, it is none other than the rightful king, Richard the Lionheart. Robin, real name Sir Henry of Nottingham, used to be his arms bearer, so he wants to help him, then settle accounts with Prince John and his sheriff. At the wedding ceremony, Lady Marian refuses to say yes to the sheriff after she recognizes an animal call sign of the outlaw, who in anger immediately lets his archers shoot a volley at the robin who is tied to a pole. At the last moment, King Richard the Lionheart stepped out from behind the wall and intercepted the arrows that were pattering ineffectively down his large shield. At the same time, Robin's followers storm into the courtyard, defeat and disarm the warriors Prince Johns and Sir Roberts.
Robin now challenges the sheriff to a duel, which he refuses because he only fights other nobles because of his knighthood.
But now it is King Richard who announces in a clear, loud voice to the sheriff and a stunned-looking Marian who is standing before them, namely none other than Sir Henry of Nottingham, his first arms bearer. In the final duel, Henry defeats the sheriff, but lets him die so that King Lionheart can judge him and the other traitors to Prince John. Marian, meanwhile, is all the happier that she can now marry her beloved Robin, who is none other than Sir Henry of Nottingham, her fiancé who was married in her early youth and, after all these years, unknown.
criticism
The lexicon of international film looked "undemanding and equipment rich, not always tasteful entertainment." "The awareness of history is compensated by a number of successful characterizations, and the sequence of humor and acrobatics reveals the spirit of successful entertainment," wrote AGCM Cinematografiche 1,971th
Web links
- The Scalawag Bunch in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Cinema
- The film at cinemedievo
Individual evidence
- ↑ The film at comingsoon.it
- ↑ The fiery arrow of vengeance. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ quoted from Roberto Poppi, Mario Pecorari: Dizionario del Cinema Italiano. I film dal 1970 al 1979. Vol. 2, tomo 4, AL. Gremese 1996, p. 72