The five feared
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The five feared |
| Original title | Un esercito di cinque uomini |
| Country of production | Italy |
| original language | Italian |
| Publishing year | 1969 |
| length | 105 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Don Taylor Italo Zingarelli |
| script |
Marc Richards Dario Argento |
| production | Italo Zingarelli |
| music | Ennio Morricone |
| camera | Enzo Barboni |
| cut | Sergio Montanari |
| occupation | |
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The five feared (original title: Un esercito di 5 uomini ) is a spaghetti western from 1969, which takes place in the time of the Mexican revolution . Directed by Don Taylor and Italo Zingarelli , the film music was composed by Ennio Morricone and the film camera by Enzo Barboni .
action
The war veteran Dutchman is hired by Mexican revolutionaries to steal half a million US dollars worth of gold from a train destined for Victoriano Huerta . He then gathers four of his former colleagues around him, each of whom he promises $ 1,000. These are the strong but simple-minded Mesito, the acrobatics Luis Dominguez, the explosives specialist Nicolas Augustus and a Japanese swordsman known only as the samurai .
At the beginning of the plot, they save the leader of the rebels from execution. On their escape, they were caught by the military and locked up in an army base, but were able to flee again. The soldiers chasing them are stopped by rebels, so this time they escape.
Dutchman now explains the plan to his men. The train is secured by machine guns and a cannon as well as by dozens of soldiers. His idea is to decouple the car with the gold load while driving and let it roll over a switch into a hiding place. To this end, all but Mesito sneak into the train in uniforms of the government troops. Mesito is meanwhile responsible for the construction of the switch.
After the robbery is successful, it almost comes to a showdown between Dutchman and his cronies, as they initially do not want to hand over the stolen gold to the revolutionaries. After they can fend off an attack by government troops together, the revolutionaries appear and celebrate the men as heroes.
synchronization
Peter Graves: Michael Chevalier
James Daly: Wolfgang Amerbacher
Nino Castelnuovo: Christian Brückner
Bud Spencer: Alexander Welbat
criticism
"Exciting, but inconsistent western, whose comedic nuances are covered by brutally bloody passages."
"The eyes and ears never rest for a moment and the otherwise dreaded lengths in the middle of such productions are not there. (...) The story seems simple and poor; (...) a western of the better kind."
"The film is a well-crafted and elaborately produced example of the type of film, in which many excellent ingredients ultimately result in a much less noticeable whole."
“Well done and exciting, albeit enriched with the now almost usual number of brutalities. Therefore with restrictions. "
background
After it had been assumed for a long time that Don Taylor was producer Zingarelli, this film was actually directed by the former actor (and Zingarelli only a few scenes), the result of which fitted seamlessly into the series of well-staged spaghetti westerns.
The film song Muerte donde vas is sung by the I Cantori Moderni choir under the direction of Alessandro Alessandroni .
Remarks
Like today me ... tomorrow you! also worked here with Dario Argento on the script; again it is about a selected group of different characters who have to fulfill a mission. As with most of these so-called caper movies (all from the late 1960s and early 1970s), the composition of the group is described first, then the meticulous execution of the plan.
German alternative titles of the film are The Steam Hammer , The Five Feared and a Hallelujah and Dicker, let the scraps fly . In the US, the film was titled Five Men Army .
publication
The Five Feared had its Italian premiere on October 16, 1969. The film was released on March 26, 1970 in the Federal Republic of Germany . On September 8, 1990 it ran for the first time on German television on Das Erste .
Web links
- The five dreaded in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The five feared in the online film database
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b The Five Feared. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed August 25, 2018 .
- ↑ Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 151/1970.
- ↑ Ulrich P. Bruckner: For a few more corpses, Munich 2006, p. 301/2.
- ↑ Christian Keßler: Welcome to Hell. 2002, pp. 99/100.
- ↑ The Five Feared. In: Zelluloid.de. Archived from the original on February 20, 2017 ; accessed on August 25, 2018 .