The last train to Durango

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Movie
German title The last train to Durango
Original title Un treno per Durango
Country of production Italy , Spain
original language Italian
Publishing year 1967
length 96 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Mario Caiano
script Mario Caiano
José Gutiérrez Maesso
Duccio Tessari
production Bianco Manini
music Carlo Rustichelli
camera Enzo Barboni
cut Renato Cinquini
occupation

The last train to Durango (original title: Un treno per Durango ) is a spaghetti western - Comedy directed by Mario Caiano from the year 1967. The main roles are Anthony Steffen , Enrico Maria Salerno and Mark Damon to see.

action

The two adventurers Gringo and Lucas take the train to Durango at the time of the Mexican Revolution . Both are broke and hope to make the business of their lives in Durango. Also on the train are journalist Helen and two arms dealers who recently had a big deal with the Diaz government and are now moving their money in a safe to the United States. However, the train was attacked by bandits posing as revolutionaries. The bandits kill numerous passengers, steal the safe and kidnap Helen. Gringo and Lucas survive the attack and discover the keys to the safe in the pockets of the killed arms dealers. Therefore they decide to offer the bandits to open the safe for appropriate payment.

However, they try to use force to find out the storage location of the keys, which both have already swallowed at this point in time. However, they are rescued by Brown, a mysterious man who prefers the car as a means of transport. In the further course, Brown helps the protagonists, who now try to sneak into the environment of Lobos, the leader of the bandits, again and again in dangerous situations, after which he always disappears immediately.

With the help of Helen it finally succeeds in playing Heraclio, also a leader of the bandits, against Lobo. During the ensuing battle, Gringo and Lucas manage to open the safe, steal the gold coins and flee with Helen. However, they soon meet Brown, who pretends to be a secret agent in charge of recovering the stolen money from the Colt company, takes the money from the three of them in return for a bonus and finally drives away in his car. Only when the three encounter a unit of Mexican soldiers do they learn from their commanders that Brown is a con man and a fraud. The soldiers succeed in catching up with Brown, who has fled, but shortly afterwards the unit deserted for fear of the revolutionaries. Only the commanding officer stays with Brown as he intends to take the money to the United States. However, he is shot by Gringo, who has overtaken the car with Lucas and Helen.

Gringo and Brown now engage in a shootout, in the course of which they both use all of their ammunition. But since nobody knows whether the other still has ammunition, they both decide to bluff. So Gringo, his empty weapon at the ready, runs towards Brown and his car, while Brown threatens to shoot him, which finally results in the classic duel scene, at the climax of which both of them throw their weapons away at the same time for fear that the other might shoot.

Since nobody seems to have an advantage anymore, they all decide to share the gold fairly and drive to the next village together, whereupon Gringo and Lucas stow their share in the car and get in. Since the car refuses to start, Brown asks the two of them to push in order to start the car. When the car finally starts, Brown does not wait for her, but drives away with her share and Helen, whose collaboration with Brown is only now becoming apparent.

Reviews

Björn Becher judged positively: “In contrast to most of the Spencer / Hill works, a lot of people die here, but bloodlessly and with a good pinch of black humor. Even apart from the shootings, the action is relaxed and lively - not always exciting and generally quite harmless, but entertaining. 'The last train to Durango' is definitely not a big spaghetti western, but at least a decent representative of the genre. ”The lexicon of international films was slightly less impressed :“ Parodistic spaghetti westerns, which formally get stuck in good approaches. "

Remarks

The box office in Italy was a below-average Lire 90 million .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ [1] , Björn Becher, filmstarts.de
  2. ↑ The last train to Durango. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ^ Roberto Poppi, Mario Pecorari: Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film Vol. 3, dal 1960 al 1969. Gremese, Rome, 1992, p. 557