The buccaneer

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Movie
German title The buccaneer
Original title The spoilers
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1942
length 87 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Ray Enright
script Lawrence Hazard
Tom Reed
novel based on Rex Beach
production Charles K. Feldman
music Hans J. Salter
Charles Previn
camera Milton R. Krasner
cut Clarence Monastery
occupation
synchronization

The Buccaneer (English original title: The Spoilers ) is an American western comedy from 1942 directed by Ray Enright . In this love triangle, Marlene Dietrich plays a woman who stands between two men at the time of the great gold rush in 1900. Both the sincere Captain Roy Glennister, played by John Wayne , and the seedy gold commissioner Alexander McNamara, played by Randolph Scott , vie for their favor. Especially the saloon fight at the end of the film went down in western history.

It is the fourth of five film adaptations so far of the novel The Spoilers by Rex Beach .

action

Nome in Alaska in 1900: Flapjack Sims appears at Cherry Malotte's Northern Saloon with his friend Banty and announces that he wants to get a gun to chase away the men who drove him off his claim . Cherry appears on the scene and asks him to reconsider that one day she would not like to see him hanging with dangling feet under a tree. She tells her confidante Bronco Kid Farrow that it looks like these guys are jumping from one claim to another. Obviously, an affidavit is enough to deprive someone of their claim. Cherry first investigates the ownership of the Sims claim. She learns that the claim has been rewritten to a Mr. Clark and a Mr. Bennett. Just as Cherry is about to “borrow” the list and store it in her stocking, the gold commissioner Alexander McNamara appears and takes it from her. He says it is a serious offense to steal government documents, to which Cherry smugly replies, “As serious as claim theft?” She explains to him that it is about the claim from Flapjack Sims, in which she is involved and she knows precisely that the affidavit from Clark and Bennett could not be correct. That's why she needs the entry as evidence. It is also mentioned that she is interested in the large, high-yielding Midas Mine, one of the owners is her friend Roy Glennister. McNamara says that he doesn't know much about Glennister, but when he looks at Cherry he has to certify that he has a damn good taste. Cherry lets him know that Roy Glennister shouldn't be pissed off because he's not someone to be pushed around. McNamara flirts violently with Cherry. As a farewell, he gives Cherry the claim paper back. Shortly afterwards she told Bronco that either McNamara was a very honest man or that the city was in a tight spot.

When a ship arrives, there is great excitement in the saloon, and everyone rushes to the quay . Cherry Malotte is also excited, she expects Roy Glennister back. She is disappointed to see that Roy leaves the ship with a young lady with whom he seems very familiar. Shortly thereafter, she introduces herself as Helen Chester, niece of Judge Stillman, who was transferred to Nome. To Cherry's hidden displeasure, Roy first wants to find a place to stay for Helen. Once there, the young woman openly advances him and the two of them kiss. Later, Roy's fatherly partner, Al Dextry, asks him that he doesn't want anything to come between him and Cherry. Roy assures him that won't happen either. But when he appears in the saloon, Cherry treats him rather coolly, which McNamara, who joins them, sees with delight. Meanwhile, Helen tries to win Roy over. When he receives an invitation from Cherry, he hopes that everything will be all right again, but is taught otherwise. All Cherry wants to talk to him about is Dextry's assumption that McNamara and Stillman are cheaters. Roy only says that the boyfriend mistrusts almost everyone. But if Dextry is right, what about his Helen Chester, Cherry wants to know. There is a violent exchange between the two, at the end of which there is a slap in the face and a separation. When Cherry's confidante Bronco confesses his feelings to her shortly afterwards, she lets him know that he has no chance. When he leaves, tears run down her cheeks.

A dispute breaks out in the Midas Mine area when McNamara approaches Judge Stillman and his men. Unlike his partner Dextry, Roy wants to hear what the judge and McNamara have to say. Roy asks what would happen if he and Dextry cooperated. The answer is that a trustee would then manage the mine until the negotiation. Stillman had previously explained to the men that there was nothing more certain than a court order to clarify the ownership structure. The yields from the mine would be secured until clarification. Stillman promises that he will be the first to try the two men on Monday. Roy still wants to know what happens to her gold in the safe. Stillman announced that it would remain on the premises under guard and the safe would be sealed. Glennister is convinced, especially since he is certain that Dextrys and his claim to ownership of the gold mine would stand in front of every court in the world and hands the claim into the hands of the judge. Dextry then ends his friendship with Roy and leaves, disappointed. Stillman says Roy did the right thing. He warns him not to make a mistake now. Dextry expresses his displeasure with Cherry about Roy's behavior. However, both agree that their feelings for Roy will never end. When Dextry learns that “his” safe has been put in the bank, Cherry has to stop him from going straight away with the rifle. Both go to the lawyer Wheaton, where they meet Roy Glennister. When they then want to leave the office again, the lawyer mediates and says that one should first wait and see what the trial will reveal.

In fact, the judge returns his claim to Flapjack Sims, which makes a good mood for him. The session around the Midas Mine opens. For flimsy reasons, Judge Stillman postpones the trial for 90 days. Even the general commotion did not dissuade him from his decision. He threatens to call for reinforcements. After the trial, McNamara, the judge, and Jonathan Struve consider how much more gold they can get out of the mine. The plan with the delay is on McNamara's account. Helen Chester arrives and McNamara asks her if she would like to join the party. She points out that Glennister could appeal to the next higher court in Seattle . McNamara says only coldly that they have taken precautions, whoever wants to appeal to a higher court , needs money, and Glennister's account is blocked. In addition, Roy's attorney Wheaton would not be allowed on board if he wanted to go to Seattle. Glennister makes an agreement with the captain of the departing ship about how Wheaton can get on board. In a robbery on the bank, Glennister and Dextry manage to get the safe out. At the very end there is a shooting in which the Marshall is killed. Shortly afterwards, McNamara and his people appear in the Northern Saloon to look for Glennister. Cherry gives him an alibi, which Malotte's colored girl Idabelle destroys with a thoughtless remark. Glennister is arrested. When Stillman learns that Wheaton got aboard the ship, he insults Struve in the worst possible way. Helen says maybe now is the right time to leave, because if Wheaton told his story and the files were studied, 47 Marshalls would turn up and he would spend the rest of his life in prison. Just as Stillmann is wondering whether it would actually be better to disappear, McNamara appears and announces that Glennister is in jail and that they have enough time to exploit the mine. Until Wheaton got back, that would take time. Helen is clearly plagued by remorse, she quarrels with what she is doing. McNamara lets it be known that if his plan were jeopardized, he would not shrink from murdering Glennister either. Helen packs her things in horror. Suddenly Cherry stands in her room and tells her on the head what she thinks of her. She gets Helen to confess what McNamara and his aides have planned. They want to give Glennister the feeling that they can escape that same evening and shoot him trying to escape. Cherry makes it clear to Bronco that he has to help her, because what he feels for her, she feels for Glennister. There will never be another for her.

With the help of her friends, Cherry manages to inform Roy in good time so that he does not fall into the trap. Cherry goes to McNamara and pretends that his plan has worked. The men want to get the mine back under Glennister and Dextry's direction. They approach with a whole train and break through the gate that has been erected. Then there is a wild shooting. You are retaking the mine. Bronco loses his life in the process. Roy and friends prevent the judge and Helen from sneaking away. He also learns from Helen where McNamara is. Shortly thereafter, Glennister appears in the saloon and there is a heated fight between him and McNamara, from which Roy emerges as the winner. Everything broke down in Cherry's saloon, but she doesn't care. She and Roy are back together, that's all that matters.

Production and Background

The film was shot from January to February 1942 in the western sets of Universal Studios in Los Angeles County . Further exterior shots were taken at Lake Arrowhed in Southern California .

The film premiered in the United States on May 8, 1942. It ran in the Federal Republic of Germany on January 31, 1950, in Austria in 1949 and was revived there in August 1963.

The first film adaptation of Beach's novel ran in 1914. Kathlyn Williams appeared in it as Cherry, while rivals Glennister and McNamara were played by William Farnum and Thomas Santschi . William Farnum plays the role of attorney Wheaton in this 1942 film adaptation, after he starred as Roy Glennister in the first film adaptation of the material. In the adaptation of the material from 1923 Anna Q. Nilsson (Cherry), Milton Sills (Glennister) and Noah Beery (McNamara) were entrusted with the main roles. In 1930 there was a film adaptation with Betty Compson as Cherry, Gary Cooper as Glennister and William Boyd as McNamara. William Farnum and Thomas Santschi were hired as combat advisors for the final brawl. In 1955 there was a film adaptation in color, in which Anne Baxter played the female lead. Jeff Chandler played the role of Glennister and Rory Calhoun that of McNamara.

The producer Charles K. Feldman used the Dietrich, Wayne and Scott again in his next film Pittsburgh . In this film too, Marlene Dietrich embodied a rough woman who is not too bad to go down into a mine underground.

In the film, the poet Robert W. Service gave a poet who recited in a scene from his most famous work "The Shooting of Dan McGrew". For the former silent film star Richard Barthelmess it was his penultimate appearance in a film.

The film owes its impressive black and white images to the cameraman Milton Krasner, who was nominated for an Oscar seven times. In 1955 he got it for his work in the film Three Coins in the Well . In addition to Wayne and Scott, more than 30 stuntmen and acrobats took part in the approximately six-minute mass brawl at the end of the film. The scene itself took ten days of shooting.

Together with his stunt double Yakima Canutt , who was also his long-time friend, John Wayne is considered to be the inventor of a new and modern form of fist duel for the screen. In this respect, they took on a pioneering role that inspired many filmmakers to create action-packed scenes in films. They figured out a way to stand in a certain axis to the camera and hit just past the face. The camera, however, reproduced the blow as if it had been hit.

In the Federal Republic of Germany the film was also shown under the title Stahlharte Fäuste (mainly as a DVD release). In Austria the film ran under the titles Gold Rush in Alaska and A Woman Without Morals .

DVD

Under the title The Buccaneer , the film was released on August 14, 2003 by Universal Pictures on DVD. Koch Media GmbH published it on October 1, 2010 under the title Stahlharte Fäuste . DeAgostini brought the film out under the title Stahlharte Fäuste as No. 13 in its John Wayne DVD Collection. Each DVD comes with a 14-page booklet with lots of information about the work.

synchronization

The film was dubbed by the dubbing company Ultra Film Synchron GmbH, Berlin, dialogue book: Bertha Gunderloh, dialogue director Alfred Vohrer .

role actor Voice actor
Cherry Malotte Marlene Dietrich Gisela Breiderhoff
Alexander McNamara Randolph Scott Wolfgang Eichberger
Roy Glennister John Wayne Peter Pasetti

criticism

The film magazine Cinema ruled that “the climax of the film […] was the excitingly staged fight in which the saloon was dismantled. Conclusion: an adventure-brilliant number with a legendary brawl. " Joe Hembus wrote in his Western Lexicon about The Buccaneer :" The fifth [sic] film adaptation of the Rex Beach novel with the fifth and best version of the most famous saloon brawl in all of Western history. Apart from this famous showpiece, the delicious flair of the film is determined by the camaraderie of the friend-foe trio Wayne-Scott-Dietrich. ”The lexicon of international films found:“ The most exciting and entertaining film adaptation of the classic western novel by Rex Beach , with a brilliantly filmed fight as a comedic action climax. (Alternative title: 'Stahlharte Fäuste'). " Kino.de judged:" An exciting and highly entertaining film adaptation of the classic western novel by Rex Beach, directed in 1942 by Ray Enright with Marlene Dietrich, Randolph Scott and John Wayne and with an excellent in In issue 13 of the John Wayne DVD Collection, the criticism of the film reads: “When this fourth adaptation of the Reed story was released in theaters in May 1942, the reviews were divided. But the audience loved the film, which turned out to be great business for Universal. The western made so much money that Feldman was able to tackle a second Dietrich Scott Wayne production in the same year: Pittsburgh . In addition, Stahlharte Fäuste received an Oscar nomination for the best production design. ”It goes on to say that the film is“ a real classic with dialogues full of subtle wit, protagonists who are so sparkling in front of Esprit and strong appearances by supporting actors like Harry Carey and Richard Barthelmess. [...] When the story approaches its action-packed end with a lot of shootout, gripping robberies and a legendary man-to-man fight, you understand why this film is one of the great classics. "

Awards

The film was nominated at the Academy Awards in 1943 in the category “Best Set Design in a Black and White Film ” . The nominees for this award were Russell A. Gausman , Edward R. Robinson, and John B. Goodman . The Oscar went to Richard Day , Joseph C. Wright and Thomas Little and the film This Above All .

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ a b c d e f g The great John Wayne DVD Collection No. 13 Fists as hard as steel by DeAgostini Deutschland GmbH, Hamburg, editorial team Ariane Ossowski, Holger Neuhaus, Joachim Seidel, pp. 3, 6, 7, 10
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  5. ↑ Fists as hard as steel at dvd-forum. Retrieved January 13, 2013.
  6. ↑ The Spoilers - synchronous files. Retrieved January 13, 2013.
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