Dirty dogs

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Movie
German title Dirty dogs
Original title Who'll stop the rain
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Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1978
length 126 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Karel Reisz
script Judith Rascoe ,
Robert Stone
production Herb Jaffe ,
Gabriel Katzka
music Laurence Rosenthal
camera Richard H. Kline
cut John Bloom
occupation

Dirty Dogs (Original title: Who'll Stop the Rain ) is an American action drama from 1978 . Directed by Karel Reisz , the script was written by Judith Rascoe and Robert Stone based on Stone's novel Unter Teufeln ( Dog Soldiers ). The leading roles are cast with Nick Nolte , Tuesday Weld and Michael Moriarty .

The film opened in German cinemas on September 8, 1978.

action

Ray Hicks and John Converse both served in the Marines and have been friends ever since. While Converse then worked as a war correspondent in Vietnam , Hicks fought there as a marine infantryman.

Shortly before their return from Saigon to the USA, Converse persuades his friend to smuggle a package containing two kilograms of heroin into the States for him . He offers him $ 2,000 for it, he pays 1,000 immediately, and Hicks should get the other half if he delivers the drug to Converses wife Marge. Hicks is reluctant to respond to John's request, but then has little trouble smuggling in the carefully hidden heroin. When he shows up at Marge's late one evening to hand over the drugs, she doesn't have the promised money in the house. She doesn't seem to have been initiated into the heroin smuggling by her husband either and reacts reasonably headless. Ray, who has felt observed for some time, goes back to his car under a pretext and sees his suspicions confirmed. The first man to break into the house is defeated and arrested by Ray in a fight, the second is no better. Ray forces Marge, who wants to call the police, to catch her little daughter Janey, to leave nothing behind that could raise suspicion of her or her husband, and to flee with him. At this point in time, he was unaware of Marge's drug addiction.

Converse finds his house devastated on his return from Vietnam, a question from his father-in-law reveals that the FBI already knew about the heroin smuggling, that Marge was on the run and that his young daughter had been housed with her uncle in Canada for safety. Converse can no longer follow his father-in-law's advice to get to safety, as Danskin and Smitty, the two men who were after the drug, take him under their control. To get information, they brutally torture Converse. Shortly afterwards, a dubious man posing as FBI agent Antheil appears. With this together, Danskin and Smitty take on the pursuit of Hicks and Marge.

Meanwhile, Ray tries to turn heroin into cash with the help of his old friend Eddie Peace, who lives in New Mexico . He introduces him and Marge to the couple Gerald and Jody. Gerald is a writer who is writing a drug-related novel and whose wife is immeasurably rich. Eddie's plan to steal a large sum of money from the couple fails, however. Ray now has the idea to ask his friend Galindez, who lives on a mountain on the edge of the Chihuahua Desert in southern New Mexico, for help. If anyone can sell the substance, it can be him, he explains to Marge. When they get to the house on the summit, however, nobody is there.

In the meantime, the pursuers have also reached the bottom of the mountain, but get lost before they accidentally discover the house on the summit. However, a deep ravine between them and the object makes further approach impossible. This is how you communicate by shouting. By order of Antheil, who conducts Danskin and Smitty from the valley, Marge and her husband are now played off against each other. Marge is completely overreacting, but Ray, together with Galindez, who made sure that the pursuers took the wrong path, develops a plan that also works. Since lavish laser shows regularly took place in the mountainous area during the time of the hippie movement, Galindez sets the show going from the house, while Ray in the valley ensures that Marge and John can escape during the surprising lightning storm and noise. He will arrange a meeting point with them beforehand. As he continued fighting, he was hit by a bullet. The friends can remove these and put on an emergency bandage. The other day Ray, who is bleeding heavily, shows up at the agreed meeting point. When Marge and John arrive there in the car, he is dead. After John has buried him, he lets the hotly contested heroin trickle into the sand of the desert.

Production and publication

The bookstore scene was filmed at Cody's Books on Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley ; further recordings were made in San Diego in California and in Mexico . The production company was United Artists .

Nick Nolte wore a back support for much of the filming to better represent the posture of a mariners. With the final scenes on the tracks, the author of the story Robert Stone wanted to refer to the beatnik Neal Cassady , whose way of speaking Jack Kerouac had put his character Dean Moriarty in his work On the Road in his mouth and the one in the film as a model for the Figure of Ray Hicks served. Stone traveled with Cassady, Ken Kesey, and other members of the Merry Pranksters artist group for a while.

In the United States, the film ran on August 2, 1978 in Los Angeles. It has also been shown in Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Japan, Norway, Belgium, Ireland, Colombia, the Philippines and Turkey. Other countries in which he was seen are Spain, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia and the Soviet Union.

Dirty Dogs was released on DVD on February 17, 2011 by the EuroVideo Medien GmbH studio (playing time 121 min.).

Music in the film

Music advisor: Tom Nolan

Reviews

Scott Weinberg wrote in the Apollo Movie Guide that the film doesn't have the strength of the movies like Midnight Express , but it's entertaining. Weinberg praised the "outstanding" play by Nick Nolte and the supporting actors Anthony Zerbe, Richard Masur and Ray Sharkey as well as Tuesday Weld, who played a difficult role, and Michael Moriarty, who brought in his own "quirky" style.

Film Noir stated that an American critic described Nick Nolte's performance in Dirty Dogs as “uncompromising”, “and that is exactly what the whole film is. Uprooted characters try to make big money and free themselves from the social and political ties of everyday reality made in the USA. ”[…] It was also said:“ Karl Reisz directs with a sure hand and cameraman Richard H. Kline takes care of the imagery that are more film noir than the usual poster photos suggest. In the main role, the then 37 year old Nick Nolte is terrific in places. "

The lexicon of international films found that dirty dogs is a "action-packed, suspense, psychologically in-depth anti-war film".

Cinema drew the conclusion: "Sobering and excitingly told"

Awards

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for dirty dogs . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , January 2011 (PDF; test number: 50 091 V).
  2. ↑ Filming locations for “Who'll Stop the Rain” on IMDb, accessed on February 20, 2008.
  3. ↑ Box office results for “Who'll Stop the Rain” in the IMDb, accessed on February 20, 2008.
  4. ↑ Who'll Stop the Rain Trivia at TCM (English)
  5. ↑ Dirty Dogs DVD (cover picture: from left to right Michael Moriarty, Tuesday Weld, Nick Nolte)
  6. ↑ Scott Weinberg: Who'll Stop the Rain. In: apolloguide.com. Archived from the original on November 12, 2005 ; accessed on September 25, 2017 (English).
  7. ↑ Dirty Dogs at film-noir.de, accessed on 30 August 2016th
  8. ↑ Dirty dogs. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed September 25, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  9. ↑ Dirty Dogs - Nick Nolte in an action drama based on the novel 'Dog Soldiers' by Robert Stone at cinema.de (with 18 pictures of the film), accessed on August 30, 2016.