The Canyon City Deadmines
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The Canyon City Deadmines |
| Original title | ¡Que viva Carrancho! |
| Country of production | Spain , Italy |
| original language | Spanish |
| Publishing year | 1965 |
| length | 91 (German v. 82) minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Alfonso Balcázar |
| script | Adriano Bolzoni |
| production | Alfonso Balcázar Paolo Moffa (as Paul Mough ) |
| music | Angelo Francesco Lavagnino |
| camera | Alfio Contini |
| cut | Teresa Alcocer |
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Man from Canyon City (original title: ! ¡Que viva Carrancho ) is a spaghetti western in the Spanish-Italian co-production. The film, directed by Alfonso Balcázar , premiered in an abridged version in German-speaking countries on October 19, 1967; Alternative titles are No Mercy For Traitors and Two on a Chain .
action
Two prisoners are escorted through the desert; they are tied together. They are the Mexican Carrancho and a gringo who calls himself Red. You can escape to Mexico. On their way, they witness a stagecoach robbery by bandits in which a money bag with $ 70,000 is involved. They follow the carriage, freed from their shackles by a train, in order to come into possession of the money themselves. The money goes into the possession of the mine owner Morgan (in the German language version his name is Barton), who lives in a border town. Carrancho and Red let themselves be hired to steal the money at the first opportunity. Carrancho is employed in the kitchen, Red - who has demonstrated his shooting skills - becomes part of the cowboys surrounding the mine owner.
Both quickly notice that Morgan treats and exploits his workers in the mine like slaves; any resistance is stifled with brutal violence, often instant death. After Carrancho tried unsuccessfully to draw the Mexican authorities' attention to the inhumane circumstances, he organized an uprising by the peons. Red takes advantage of his position to support him to the best of his ability; Viviane, the wife of the tyrannical Morgan, who has fallen in love with Red, also helps. Red is captured and seriously tortured by some of his colleagues who are loyal to Morgan. After his recovery, however, he can take out Morgan's people and thus help Carrancho to win. Carrancho stays with the peons; Red pulls away.
criticism
The lexicon of international film saw the work "swinging between stark realism and trying funny parody without style." The Protestant film observer comes to the conclusion that the extremely brutal scenes are not softened by the interspersed comic elements, but played down.
Remarks
In Italy the film was shown under the title L'uomo che viene da Canyon City . It was released on DVD in 2012.
José Antonio de la Loma wrote the dialogues based on a material by Attilio Riccio , which he wrote under the pseudonym "Henry Vaughan".
Many of the actors and persons on the technical staff were given imaginative English pseudonyms. Thus, Renato Terra Caizzi to "Ryan Earth Pick" and Osvaldo Genazzani to "Jean Oswald".
Web links
- Man from Canyon City in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The film at comingsoon.it
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Canyon City Deadmines. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Evangelical Press Association Munich, Review No. 478/2015
- ^ R. Poppi, M. Pecorari: Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film Vol. 3 . Gremese, 1992, p. 575