The five outlaws
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The five outlaws |
| Original title | Firecreek |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1968 |
| length | 104 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Vincent McEveety |
| script | Calvin Clemens |
| production |
Philip Leacock , John Mantley |
| music | Alfred Newman |
| camera | William H. Clothier |
| cut | William H. Ziegler |
| occupation | |
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The five free birds (original title: Firecreek ) is an American western by Vincent McEveety from 1968.
action
A gang of criminals, led by the cold-blooded Bob Larkin, spread fear and terror in a small American town. The farmer Johnny Cobb, who so far only carried out the sheriff's office pro forma, initially shies away from confrontation with the psychopathic gangsters. When a member of the gang abuses the Indian girl Meli, the criminal is accidentally killed by the stable boy Arthur, who rushes to help. Cobb locks the boy up and promises him a fair trial. In his absence, however, the gang break into the prison and kill Arthur. Now Cobb decides to take action against Larkin and his men. There is a showdown . Cobb overwhelms the gang except for their leader Larkin, who is shot in self-defense by his landlady and intermittent playmate.
background
The two Hollywood and western stars James Stewart and Henry Fonda , who were close friends in private, stood in front of the camera for the second time in this film, based on the western epic That Was the Wild West (1961).
The plot is reminiscent of the western classic 12 noon : There Gary Cooper plays a sheriff who has to fight a gang of criminals without the residents of his town helping him.
William Robert Cox processed Calvin Clemens' script into a western novel, which was also published in German in 1968.
Reviews
“Westerns that begin slowly, then increase in action, attempting a psychological deepening,” said the lexicon of international films . Joe Hembus said in his Western Lexicon that you can see from the film that the director McEveety comes from television; his work is "good". Henry Fonda practiced "the villain role, which he succeeded a year later in play me a song of death much better". Phil Hardy called the film in The Encyclopedia of Western Movies "at best routine", the "melodramatic direction" counteracts the interesting ideas of the script.
The Protestant film observer came to a similar assessment: “Subject as often. The two main actors play cold and talk too much. Not quite a successful attempt at a psychological western. Only for friends of this genre. "
literature
- William R. Cox : The five outlaws. Western novel (original title: Firecreek ). German by Walter Brumm . Heyne, Munich 1968, 157 pp.
Web links
- Firecreek in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ See prisma.de
- ↑ The five outlaws. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed September 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Joe Hembus: Western Lexicon - 1272 films from 1894-1975. Carl Hanser Verlag, 2nd edition, Munich, Vienna 1977, ISBN 3-446-12189-7 , p. 200.
- ^ Phil Hardy: The Encyclopedia of Western Movies. Woodbury Press, Minneapolis 1984, ISBN 0-8300-0405-X , p. 307.
- ↑ Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 154/1968.