Desert Fury - love wins
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Desert Fury - love wins |
| Original title | Desert Fury |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1947 |
| length | 96 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Lewis Allen |
| script | Robert Rossen |
| production | Hal B. Wallis |
| music | Miklós Rózsa |
| camera |
Charles Lang Edward Cronjager |
| cut | Warren Low |
| occupation | |
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Desert Fury - Love wins (Original title: Desert Fury ) is an American film directed by Lewis Allen from 1947. The script was based on the novel Desert Town by Ramona Stewart .
action
In the sleepy desert town of Chuckawalla, Nevada, the hard-nosed Fritzi Haller runs a casino and pulls the strings in the city. The only thing she's not in control is her rebellious nineteen-year-old daughter Paula, who has just been thrown out of school for the fifth time. At the same time as Paula's return from boarding school, the professional player Eddie Bentix arrives in town, whose wife once died under mysterious circumstances on a bridge outside town. When the passionate Paula falls in love with Eddie, her mother, who used to have an affair with Eddie, and the deputy sheriff Tom Hanson, who himself has his eye on the attractive blonde, try to dissuade her from the crook. Eddie's partner Johnny Ryan also does everything in his power to destroy the looming relationship in order not to endanger the mutual business of the two gangsters. When Eddie and Paula finally want to leave Chuckawalla in order to start a new life together, Johnny clarifies Paula about the circumstances surrounding the death of Eddie's ex-wife. When this Eddie wanted to leave because of his criminal machinations, he pushed her off the bridge with his car. Eddie then shoots Johnny in a rage. Paula escapes with her car, followed by Eddie. On the accident bridge Eddie finally loses control of his car and falls into the depths. In the last shot, Paula and Tom Hanson, who has joined them, walk together towards the sunrise.
background
The film opened in US cinemas on August 15, 1947. It did not come to cinemas in Germany and was first shown on television on June 11, 1985.
Although Desert Fury was filmed in Technicolor , it is considered to be the only color film of the 1940s next to Mortal Sin (1945) that can still be classified as classic film noir .
criticism
“Melodrama about suppressed feelings, emotional injuries and longing for security; characterized by a gloomy climate, the film doesn’t get beyond mediocrity in terms of staging or acting. "
"A harmonious noir in a splendid technicolor, set under the glaring Nevada sun."
"In a truly subversive way, the film discards the criminal activities of the protagonists in order to focus on two homosexual couples: the masculine mother who treats her daughter like a lover, and the gangster and his affectionate possessive companion."
“ Desert Fury is the gayest movie ever made in Hollywood's golden era. The film is saturated with wonderfully opulent colors, overheated dialogues dripping with allusions, ambiguities, dark secrets, outraged slaps and overloaded Miklos Rosza violins. How could this film evade revival or cult status? This is Hollywood in its most glorious madness. "
Web links
- Desert Fury - Love wins in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Internet Movie Database
- ↑ a b Desert Fury - Love wins in the dictionary of international films
- ↑ der-film-noir.de
- ↑ mordlust.de ( Memento of the original from September 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ "In a truly subversive move the film jettisons the characters' criminal activities to concentrate on two homosexual couples: the mannish mother who treats her daughter like a lover, and the gangster and his devoted possessive sidekick." Foster Hirsch: The Dark Side of the Screen: Film Noir . Da Capo Press, New York 2008, ISBN 978-0-306-81772-4 ; P. 224.
- ↑ “ Desert Fury is the gayest movie ever produced in Hollywood's golden era. The film is saturated with incredibly lush color, fast and furious dialogue dripping with innuendo, double entendres, dark secrets, outraged face-slappings, overwrought Miklos Rosza violins. How has this film escaped revival or cult status? It's Hollywood at its most gloriously berserk. " Eddie Muller: Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir . St. Martin's, New York 1998, ISBN 978-0-312-18076-8 , p. 183.
