The last bandit
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The last bandit |
| Original title | Billy the Kid |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1941 |
| length | 94 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | David Miller |
| script | Gene Fowler |
| production | Irving Asher |
| music | David Snell |
| camera |
William V. Skall Leonard Smith |
| cut | Robert Kern |
| occupation | |
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The Last Bandit is a 1941 American western based on the novel The Saga of Billy the Kid by Walter Noble Burns .
action
Bill Bonney is a gunslinger known in the Wild West as Billy the Kid . In 1880 he came to Lincoln , New Mexico Territory , to free his friend Pedro Gonzales from prison. During this action he met the cattle baron Dan Hickey, who hired the gunslinger for his purposes. Hickey and his men want to unlawfully unite other ranchers' herds with theirs. Billy meets his childhood friend Jim Sherwood, who supports the other ranchers. He realizes that Hickey is a criminal and now takes the side of his friend Jim and the rancher Eric Keating.
Billy likes Keating's ranch and also takes a liking to Keating's young sister, Edith. But when Bill's friend Pedro is shot from behind, Billy seeks revenge. When her brother Eric is murdered on Edith's birthday, the barrel overflows. While Jim tries to bring the killers to justice, Billy distrusts the law. Jim seeks peace with Hickey and puts Billy in jail. Billy escapes, however, and sets off for the mountains to bring the murderers from Hickey's gang to justice. He hunted down one by one and waited for Hickey and Jim Sherwood to arrive. Jim begs him not to kill Hickey because he would have to bring his friend to justice himself. Still, Billy shoots Hickey. During the subsequent arrest, Billy provokes that Jim has to shoot him.
background
The film was based on the novel The Saga of Billy the Kid by Walter Noble Burns . Leading actor Robert Taylor played Billy the Kid left-handed, even though he was right-handed himself. Filming began in December 1940, directed by Frank Borzage . However, Borzage was pulled from MGM to direct a film with Joan Crawford . The direction was then taken over by David Miller.
The film was released in the USA in May 1941, but in Germany and Austria only in March 1951 due to the war.
synchronization
The German dubbing was created in 1951 in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer dubbing studios. Carl Raddatz spoke for Robert Taylor and Wilhelm Borchert for Brian Donlevy . Siegfried Schürenberg lent his voice to Ian Hunter , and Walter Werner took over the part from Henry O'Neill .
Reviews
"The historically very questionable western romanticizes the figure of the bandit and is not very convincing despite the complex action scenes and good landscape shots."
"Wild West in Technicolor."
Awards
Cinematographers William V. Skall and Leonard Smith were nominated for an Oscar for their color film camera work , but received nothing at the 1942 Academy Awards .
literature
- Walter Noble Burns : The Saga of Billy the Kid. Quality Press, London 1938.
Web links
- The last bandit in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thomas Bräutigam : Stars and their German voices. Lexicon of voice actors . Schüren, Marburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-89472-627-0 , CD-ROM.
- ↑ The last bandit. 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. 257.