Dirty gold

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Movie
German title Dirty gold
Original title The Train Robbers
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1973
length 92 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Burt Kennedy
script Burt Kennedy
production Michael Wayne
music Dominic Frontiere
camera William H. Clothier
cut Frank Santillo
occupation

Dirty Gold (Original title: The Train Robbers ) is an American western from 1973 with John Wayne in the lead role. The film was shot from March 23 to June 1972 in the Mexican state of Durango and opened in early February 1973 with Warner Bros. distributors in US cinemas. The American Batjac Productions was responsible for the production . In the Federal Republic of Germany, the film was released on February 15, 1973 by Warner-Columbia Filmverleih.

action

The booty from a railroad robbery is stored in a wrecked train in the desert. The widow of the robber leader who was killed in the robbery, Mrs. Lowe, hires Lane and five of his friends to secure the stolen gold. She claims she wants to return the gold to the Rio Grande Railroad so that her son can keep a fond memory of his father. She promises Lane and his friends the $ 50,000 reward from the railroad company. The adventurers meet the surviving members of the robber gang and a Pinkerton detective , who dispute them for gold. When they finally handed the loot to Mrs. Lowe in Liberty, Texas, Lane and his friends generously forego their money so that Mrs. Lowe's son could get a proper education. As the train is about to leave, the detective explains to her from the platform of the last car that the woman is not the widow of the robber, but a cheater named Lilli who is after the pot of gold. She was a prostitute in the brothel where Lowe was shot from behind. Lane's squad rides after the train to get the gold again.

criticism

The New York Times noted predictable and unimportant twists and turns in the story, yet the film was characterized by "insight, camaraderie and reconciliation" and permeated with a "good feeling". The cast is great; John Wayne cautious, Ben Johnson and Rod Taylor would deliver beautiful, restrained presentations. The Times ruled that director Burt Kennedy "usually tells a lot funnier and more cutting" than in this "lengthy story". The Motion Picture Guide also lacked “substance” and “style”.

The film-dienst wrote of a "considerable self-staging by John Wayne" and that Dirty Gold "is nothing more than the expression of belief that only the 'strong individual' is called to lead and deal with critical situations." Wayne works in many close-ups "In lazy obesity as a parody of himself" and involuntarily cause distance and ridicule. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reacted similarly, describing the main actor as a “walking fossil” and identifying pithy pathos instead of “the sentimentality and melancholy of the late Western”. The Süddeutsche Zeitung pointed to the less intrusive design: "After the lurid escapades of recent years, a descriptive, sober western beginning".

The lexicon of international films judged that the film was a western “quite traditionally made” . It is "no own handwriting" recognizable. The Playboy wrote the film stand " Disneyland closer than Dodge City" , but benefit from the interaction of Ann-Margret with Western icons Wayne, Taylor, Johnson, Montalban and Vinton. Phil Hardy described the film as "inferior Wayne Western" , which still reverberation of Kennedy scripts for Budd Boetticher Western On your own , and one does not give up show, but neither meets the needs of the main actors the vitality of Kennedy Western comedies'll still too a sheriff needs help and Latigo has.

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  1. ↑ cf. Dirty gold. In: The large TV feature film film lexicon (CD-ROM). Directmedia Publ., 2006, ISBN 978-3-89853-036-1 .
  2. ↑ cf. Release dates in the Internet Movie Database (accessed November 26, 2010)
  3. ↑ cf. company credits in the Internet Movie Database (accessed November 26, 2010)
  4. ^ Greenspun, Roger: Screen: 'Train Robbers': Burt Kennedy Western Keeps It Traditional The Casts. In: The New York Times, February 8, 1973 (accessed via movies.nytimes.com)
  5. ^ David Robinson: The Train Robbers. In: The Times, April 13, 1973, No. 58757, p. 11.
  6. ↑ a b quoted from Dreckiges Gold. In: The large TV feature film film lexicon (CD-ROM). Directmedia Publ., 2006, ISBN 978-3-89853-036-1 .
  7. ↑ Günther Bastian in film-dienst 05/1973 (accessed via Munzinger Online )
  8. ↑ Dirty gold. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, February 16, 1973, p. 52.
  9. ↑ Dirty gold. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  10. ↑ quoted in: Joe Hembus : Western-Lexikon - 1272 films from 1894-1975. Carl Hanser Verlag Munich Vienna 2nd edition 1977, ISBN 3-446-12189-7 , p. 137.
  11. ^ Phil Hardy: The Encyclopedia of Western Movies. Woodbury Press Minneapolis 1984, ISBN 0-8300-0405-X , p. 344.