Doc (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Doc |
| Original title | "Doc" |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1971 |
| length | 96 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Frank Perry |
| script | Pete Hamill |
| production | Frank Perry |
| music | Jimmy Webb |
| camera | Gerald Hirschfeld |
| cut | Alan Heim |
| occupation | |
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Doc is an American late-west directed and produced by Frank Perry . The film, shot in 1971, was released in German cinemas on October 17, 1972. He is considered one of the exemplary representatives of the demystification of the old western heroes.
action
Doc Holliday , who is known as a sharpshooter and professional gamer, has won the whore Kate Elder at a card game from one of the Clantons and is coming to Tombstone with her. Holliday's old acquaintance and friend, US Marshal Wyatt Earp , is about to take action against his enemies in the city and asks him for help. Holliday refuses; tired of the long unsteady years, suffering from tuberculosis and severely bored, he wants to settle down outside of town with Katie.
One day Earp gets into great trouble with the Clanton brothers, who are supported by gunslinger Johnny Ringo ; Holliday steps in and helps him drive them away, but then turns away again as Earp cannibalizes the matter to gain recognition and offer himself up for other profitable endeavors. Against the advice and wishes of Katie, he helps him nonetheless and again when the OK Corral is about to have the last big argument with the Clantons. Eight people died in the shooting that took place there (in reality only three); the last shot is fired by Doc Holliday and kills Kid Clanton, the youngest of the brothers, with whom he was benevolently linked and who had his gun back in its holster. Disaffected and sad, he rides away.
criticism
“In his first western, too, he (= director Perry) is mainly interested in what destroyed the heroes of Tombstone and how it could have happened that Wyatt Earp became an unpleasant opportunist. Doc Holliday, on the other hand, is a dropout who only really feels comfortable in opium dens. (...) Ultimately, he only fails because of a script whose intellectual claim is expressed in chatty dialogues. "
"A remarkable contribution to the demythologization of the genre, carefully drawn in character and milieu."
The New York Times thinks the film has failed and regrets it because of its potential and talent.
Remarks
The film for the most part in the through filmed Italowestern known regions of Tabernas .
Web links
- Doc in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ quoted from Joe Hembus : Das Western-Lexikon, Munich 1996, p. 140
- ↑ Doc. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9A0CEED81238EF34BC4152DFBE66838A669EDE