The whip of the pampas

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Movie
German title The whip of the pampas
Original title Under the Pampas Moon
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1935
length 78 minutes
Rod
Director James Tinling
script Ernest Pascal ,
Bradley King
production Buddy G. DeSylva
music Arthur Lange
camera Chester A. Lyons
cut Alfred DeGaetano
occupation

The Whip of the Pampas (original title: Under the Pampas Moon ) is an American western with Warner Baxter from 1935. It was based on a story by Gordon Morris .

action

A plane flying over the Argentine pampas has to make an emergency landing due to a sudden engine failure. Among the passengers are the French singer Yvonne LaMarr and her manager Graham Scott. After landing successfully, they meet the gaucho Cesar Campo, who has a weakness for beautiful women and fast horses. He has won numerous horse races with his horse Chico Lindo. After Graham was able to convince himself of Chico Lindo's qualities in a race, he is determined to make a lot of money with the stallion. But Cesar doesn't want to sell Chico. Graham therefore hires a gaucho named Bazan to steal Chico Lindo for him.

While Cesar gets closer to Yvonne one evening, Bazan and Chico get up and away. When Cesar notices the loss of his beloved horse the next day and Yvonne travels on with her repaired plane, he immediately goes in search of Chico. His search remained in vain for several days until he finally found Chico on a racecourse in Buenos Aires . However, the authorities refuse to believe that he is the rightful owner of Chico. When he causes a commotion, he is taken away by the local police. Then Cesar meets Yvonne again and they fall in love. But when he learns that her manager is behind Chico's robbery, he is firmly convinced that Yvonne also has her hands in the game. The latter tries to convince him otherwise, and is only successful after Cesar, with the help of his friend Tito and a number of other gauchos, has managed to get Chico back. Together they return to the pampas.

background

After Warner Baxter had received an Oscar for Best Actor in 1930 for the film In Old Arizona as the Cisco Kid and thus became one of the biggest stars of Fox , he had to play variations of his Cisco Kid again and again, provided his studio did not give him other roles Could provide. This was also the case with The Whip of the Pampas . The plot was moved from Arizona to Argentina and renamed the Cisco Kid Cesar Campo.

In The Whip of the Pampas , the young Rita Hayworth , who in 1935 still called herself Rita Cansino, can be seen as an Argentine dancer in a dance number, the “Zamba”. It was her first film in which she was allowed to speak a few lines of dialogue. She had previously appeared as a dancer in Satan's Ship (1935) alongside Spencer Tracy . However, this film was only released after The Whip of the Pampas .

The film was shown in New York's renowned Radio City Music Hall , but was not very popular with both critics and audiences, which was partly due to the inauthentic Spanish accent of the actors. Hayworth said years later, "I remember someone asking the dialog leader what kind of accent we should simulate for our characters, and he said, 'Standard Hollywood Mexican - no one will notice a difference!'"

Reviews

According to Weekly Variety , the film offers "a new setting for the same old glorious western character that Warner Baxter created years ago." Baxter is therefore "still a Cisco Kid". According to Andre Sennwald of the New York Times , The Whip of the Pampas is "so bad that after a while you stop being angry about it and instead start enjoying yourself with the old-fashioned comedy." Also, everyone in this film speaks “a false Spanish accent”. Warner Baxter is "very funny" and steals the show, so that the "charming" Ketti Gallian hardly has the opportunity to "show anything interesting".

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ “I remember somebody asked the dialogue director what kind of accent we were supposed to simulate for our characters and he said, 'Standard Hollywood-Mexican - nobody will know the difference!'” Rita Hayworth quoted. after Gene Ringgold: The Films of Rita Hayworth . Citadel Press, Secaucus 1974, p. 60.
  2. ↑ “ Pampas Moon is a new background for the same old glorified Western character Warner Baxter created years ago. […] He's still the Cisco Kid. " , Gene Ringgold: The Films of Rita Hayworth . Citadel Press, Secaucus 1974, p. 60.
  3. ↑ “ Under the Pampas Moon is so bad that after a while you stop resenting it and begin to be mildly amused by its antique humors. […] Every one in the picture assumes a phony Spanish accent […]. Mr. Baxter himself is terribly quaint and […] is the whole show, and the consequence is that the fetching Miss Gallian has almost nothing of any interest to do. " Andre Sennwald : 'Under the Pampas Moon,' the New Entry at the Music Hall . In: The New York Times , May 31, 1935.