The red coats
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The red coats |
| Original title | Giubbe rosse |
| Country of production | Italy |
| original language | Italian |
| Publishing year | 1975 |
| length | 100 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Aristide Massaccesi (as Joe D'Amato ) |
| script |
Claudio Bernabei Aristide Massaccesi Luigi Montefiori (as George Eastman ) |
| production | Alfonso Donati |
| music | Carlo Rustichelli |
| camera | Aristide Massaccesi |
| cut | Bruno Micheli |
| occupation | |
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The red skirts (original title: Giubbe rosse ) is an adventure film shot in 1974 in the area of the Mounties in Canada, which Aristide Massaccesi staged in the style of the spaghetti westerns. The alternative title on video is The Merciless Pack . The German-language premiere took place on May 17, 1977 on television .
action
Caribou's friend Elizabeth is a sought-after singer, and he uses her fees to pay off his not inconsiderable debts from playing poker and drinking. Mountie Bill Cormack saves him from an angry pack that chases him out of the saloon. Caribou takes the life of an outlaw and steals his delivery from a gold courier with like-minded people. With the booty he goes to Elizabeth to emigrate with her to the States. However, she decides against it; she wants to stay close to Bill, although he doesn't seem to share her affection. Hatred arises between men; Bill makes it his business to put Caribou down.
Years later, Elizabeth and Bill married and have a son, Jimmy. Meanwhile, Caribou flees again and again from the prison, in which he has served many times. When he tracks down Bill, Elizabeth has passed away and Jimmy is in his sole care. Caribou kidnaps Jimmy to the north, where he has hidden the then stolen gold. With a delegation of redcoats, Bill follows his lead; Even his buddies at the time, led by Wolf, are after him. When Jimmy falls ill on the way, he is operated on by a doctor; this is how Bill learns the whereabouts of Caribous. There is a clash in which Bill Caribou spares despite the possibility of killing him: It is his brother. Together they fight the gangsters to save Jimmy; Caribou is killed in successful battles.
criticism
"Conventional adventure cinema on a very modest level", so the lexicon of international film . Christian Keßler writes that the film is good to watch, even if he tells its story in a somewhat cumbersome manner and assumes that the film was produced with an eye on the children's market.
On the occasion of a television broadcast on May 17, 1977, Der Spiegel judged : "Sentimental Italo-Western (...), one of those Italian junk films that ZDF has recently been adding to its programs".
The Italian CR wrote more positively that the film knows how to present its eventful plot through editing and appropriate tone with detailed figure drawings.
Remarks
Lynne Frederick sings the movie song Day After Day .
For this film, director and cameraman Massaccesi used his regular pseudonym Joe D'Amato for the first time .
Web links
- The redcoats in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The film at comingsoon
Individual evidence
- ↑ The red coats. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Keßler: Welcome to Hell . 2000, pp. 110/111
- ↑ On TV this week . Der Spiegel 21/1977, May 16, 1977
- ^ Review of the film in Il Giorno , August 24, 1975