The red squad
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The red squad |
| Original title | The Canadians |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1961 |
| length | 85 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Burt Kennedy |
| script | Burt Kennedy |
| production | Herman E. Webber |
| music | Douglas Gamley |
| camera | Arthur Ibbetson |
| cut | Douglas Robertson |
| occupation | |
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The red squadron (original title: The Canadians ) is a western that Burt Kennedy shot as his directorial debut in 1961 . German premiere was on April 28, 1961.
action
After the Battle of Little Big Horn , the 6,000 Indians of the Sioux tribe flee to Canada under their chief Four Horns , where they are quickly visited in their camp by Inspector William Gannon, who belongs to the Northwest Mounted , after crossing the border . His offer: The Indians are allowed to stay in Canada if they submit to the laws of the country to which they consent. When the rancher Frank Boone from Montana and three of his employees in search of stolen horses come across one of the related Indian villages, they massacre the residents as horse thieves and kidnap a white woman who does not speak to them.
The Mounties fear an uprising by the Indians and take Boone and his men into custody; they claim they only wanted to save the woman; the Indians want the four Americans; Gannon insists on compliance with the law. On the way to court, he learns from the woman that she was kidnapped by Indians as a child. Your half-blood child was killed in the attack. The Americans manage to escape, again with the woman hostage. When a gunfight breaks out while the Mounties are in pursuit, she is shot, saving Gannon's life. At the top of the cliffs, the bandits meet the Sioux, who trigger a stampede and thus drive Boone and his men over the cliffs to their death. No shot was fired on the side of the Sioux, who thus kept the law. The Mounties return to their headquarters.
criticism
“Burt Kennedy was widely recognized as one of the top western screenwriters of the 1950s; his admirers would have wished him a happier directorial debut. (...) With his next films, Kennedy did a brilliant rehabilitation. "
"Western adventure with lots of landscape shots, melancholy Indian songs and gruff soldier humor."
- Paul V. Beckley in the New York Herald Tribune : “Burt Kennedy's script is unimaginative and uneventful and doesn't even offer enough cliché to cover up what's not happening. Ryan, actually a powerful actor, sometimes seems to be unable to hide the fact that he knows exactly how excruciatingly colorless what he is playing is. "
background
- "After criticizing his directorial debut, screenwriter Burt Kennedy went to television for three years to learn the craft of filmmaking."
- For legal reasons, the film was officially a British film.
Web links
- The Canadians in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Red Squadron. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ New York Herald Tribune, June 1, 1961
- ↑ http://www.cinema.de/kino/filmarchiv/film/die-rote-schwadron,1341129,ApplicationMovie.html
- ↑ Franklin Jarlett: Robert Ryan, 1997, p 241