The white son of the Sioux
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The white son of the Sioux |
| Original title | The Savage |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1952 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | George Marshall |
| script | Sydney Boehm |
| production | Mel Epstein |
| music |
Lucien Cailliet Paul Sawtell |
| camera | John F. Seitz |
| cut | Arthur P. Schmidt |
| occupation | |
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The White Son of the Sioux is an American western from 1952. Charlton Heston starred in the literary film adaptation produced by Paramount Pictures , which is based on the novel The Renegade by LL Foreman .
action
A wagon train is attacked by Crow Indians. After they were routed by Sioux Indians, the Sioux took the only survivor, the 10-year-old Jim Aherne, into their tribe. Chief Gelber Adler adopts Aherne and gives him the name Wolfssohn.
Years later, when Aherne alias Wolfssohn is an adult and a respected warrior of his tribe, the Sioux are considering a campaign against the whites - Aherne warns against rash action - and send Aherne ahead as a scout, as he speaks the language of the whites. He meets white troops who are currently being attacked by the Crows and comes to the aid of the whites, since he cannot forget the murder of his father for the Crows. He accompanies them to the fort, where he comes into contact with white civilization for the first time in a long time. But soon he is pushed back to his red comrades. On the way there he meets warriors of his tribe and learns that the daughter of his adoptive father, his "sister" Luta, was captured by the Crows. Immediately he goes out with his friends to free them. While he and two comrades sneak into the enemy camp and get Luta out, the two warriors, who remained behind to cover the retreat, flee. On the way to their camp, the four encounter white troops whom, since Aherne is known to them, they approach unsuspectingly, but who open fire in which Luta dies. When he arrived at the camp, Aherne reproached himself for having trusted the whites too quickly. Now his decision to go against the whites is made. Before that, however, he settles accounts with the two faithless comrades who have let him down with the Crows. You will be killed.
He returns to the whites and, as a scout, leads troops against the Crows, whose village is damaged by cannon fire. Later, in the role of a boy scout, he is said to lure a trek of settlers into an ambush, where his Sioux allies want to raid the trek as revenge for Luta. During this task he became more and more concerned, especially since he was treated well by civilians, including children, and he remembers his own trek earlier. Shortly before the ambush, he warns the soldiers accompanying the trek and prevents the attack from being successful. He is injured and later cared for in the fort. He feels the need to explain himself to the Sioux and leaves the fort unrecognized to go to them, where he is received as a traitor and challenged to a duel by his adoptive father. He refuses to fight and is seriously injured. The chief has done his duty. He is actually relieved that Aherne - Wolfssohn - is still alive. Finally, there is reconciliation between the Sioux and the whites.
Reviews
Cinema magazine ruled: "In the title role, Charlton Heston delivers a serious Indian portrait, but the western by veteran director George Marshall looks like an illustrated thesis paper for a long time: political correct."
The lexicon of international films said: An entertaining Western with routine and exciting staged fight and chase scenes. Despite its essentially peaceful message, an Indian film in the style of the Hollywood cinema of those years, which has more to do with a Karl May story than with ethnic and historical proximity to reality.
Joe Hembus explains that the material is unusual for George Marshall because "a serious story with tragic undertones" was uncharted territory for the director. The life of the Sioux is "carefully portrayed" , Heston is "very serious about the problems of his figure". Phil Hardy calls Heston's portrayal “quite good” , but the “puffy language of the script” gives “only a few characters some depth”.
Adolf Heinzlmeier and Berndt Schulz rate the flick in their lexicon “Films on TV” with 2½ stars as above average and write: “ Dynamically played by Heston, credible directing by Marshall that almost avoids clichés, tragic storyline. "
literature
- LL Foreman: The Renegade . EP Dutton & Co., New York 1942, 285 pp.
Web links
- The white son of the Sioux in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cinema magazine
- ↑ The white son of the Sioux. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Joe Hembus: Western Lexicon - 1272 films from 1894-1975. 2nd Edition. Carl Hanser, Munich / Vienna 1977, ISBN 3-446-12189-7 , p. 682.
- ^ Phil Hardy: The Encyclopedia of Western Movies. Woodbury Press, Minneapolis 1984, ISBN 0-8300-0405-X , p. 219.
- ^ Adolf Heinzlmeier, Berndt Schulz: Lexicon "Films on Television" (extended new edition). Rasch and Röhring, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-89136-392-3 , p. 910