Duel at the Apache Pass
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Duel at the Apache Pass |
| Original title | Thunder Over Arizona |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1956 |
| length | 71 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Joseph Kane |
| script | Sloan Nibley |
| music | R. Dale Butts |
| camera | Bud Thackery |
| cut | Tony Martinelli |
| occupation | |
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Duel am Apache Pass is a 1956 western filmed in color . It was directed by Joseph Kane and starring Kristine Miller as Fay Warren, Skip Homeier as Tim Mallory, George Macready as Mayor Plummer and Wallace Ford as Hal Stiles. German premiere was on September 6, 1957.
action
A 19th-century Arizona city was ruled by a ruthless mayor ruled by greed for power and wealth, named Plummer, and his corrupt minions, including the sheriff and his deputies. A family in the area has a silver mine. They want to take Plummer and his people for themselves, by any means, including murder. Tim Mallory, who happened to also travel to town, is mistaken for the art shooter they hired as a killer and thus drawn into the matter. Realizing who he's dealing with, he tries to help Fay Warren and her brothers, so he rides to their mine as fast as he can, but they too think he's the hired killer ...
criticism
- The critics described the western as "harmless-mediocre" ( lexicon of international film ) or "undemanding", but also as "B-Western by assembly line filmmaker Joseph Kane with remarkable natural panoramas." (Cinema.de)
Remarks
Duel am Apache Pass was the second film to be shot using the "Naturama" method developed by the Republic Pictures production company and which was short lived.
Web links
- Thunder Over Arizona in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The film at cinema.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Duel at the Apache Pass. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ^ Leonard Maltin , TV movies and video guide, 1986, p. 996
- ↑ Hal Erickson, quoted in The New York Times