The last ride to Santa Cruz
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The last ride to Santa Cruz |
| Country of production | Austria , Federal Republic of Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1963 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Rolf Olsen |
| script | Herbert Reinecker |
| production |
Wiener Stadthalle magnet film |
| music |
Erwin Halletz , Charly Niessen |
| camera | Karl Loeb |
| cut | Karl Aulitzky |
| occupation | |
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The last ride to Santa Cruz is a western by Rolf Olsen from 1963.
action
The bandit Pedro Ortiz is released from prison and sets off with the two unscrupulous henchmen José and Fernando to the Santa Cruz silver mine, where he has hidden the booty of his last raid. But first he wants to get revenge on Rex Kelly, who once put him behind bars. Kelly is no longer a sheriff and runs a bank. Ortiz kidnaps Rex's wife and their son Steve and extorts a handsome ransom . Kelly goes in pursuit of the gang to free his family. On the mountain there is a showdown between Kelly and Ortiz.
background
The film was made parallel to the most successful German Karl May westerns . Main actor Mario Adorf played a leading role in Winnetou I , Klaus Kinski in Winnetou II . The film was shot in late autumn 1963 on the island of Gran Canaria, which at that time was not very much influenced by tourism . Since, contrary to expectations, there were no horses there, 26 Belgian pedigree horses had to be delivered from Brussels by ship at short notice. Despite the top-class cast, the film was a failure at the time and received poor reviews.
From a film-historical point of view, the production is a pioneer of the Spaghetti Western . The unusual brutality in the film and the not unsympathetic portrayal of the "villain" became stylistic elements of the new genre. Marianne Koch and Sieghardt Rupp starred in Sergio Leone's genre-defining classic For a Fistful of Dollars , which appeared a year later. Klaus Kinski, for whom The Last Ride to Santa Cruz was the first western of his film career, became a star of the Spaghetti Western, among other things through his roles in For a Few Dollars More (1965), Kill Amigo (1966) and Corpses Pave His Way ( 1968).
Reviews
“In the wake of the great international success of Karl May films such as Der Schatz im Silbersee or Winnetou , comedy director Rolf Olsen also tried his hand at the western genre - but without great success. Based on the book by Herbert Reinecker, who wrote the template under the pseudonym Alex Berg (he must have known why!), A jittery and uninspired work was created that arouses interest solely through the cast. "
"Allrovi" notes that "this 'whirlpool western' relies more on bloody brawls and outright shootings than the American models that it otherwise follows." The lexicon of international films found the "Western attempt" to be "extremely poor "And" unnecessarily brutal ".
Web links
- The Last Ride to Santa Cruz in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The last ride to Santa Cruz at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Roman Schliesser: The super nose. Karl Spiehs and his films , Verlag Carl Ueberreuter, Vienna 2006, p. 23
- ↑ The last ride to Santa Cruz. In: Prism online. Retrieved May 25, 2017 .
- ↑ http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/126934/Die-Letzt-Ritt-nach-Santa-Cruz/overview
- ↑ The last ride to Santa Cruz. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed May 25, 2017 .