Duel on the Missouri
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Duel on the Missouri |
| Original title | The Missouri Breaks |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1976 |
| length | 121 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Arthur Penn |
| script | Thomas McGuane |
| production |
Elliott Kastner Robert M. Sherman |
| music | John Williams |
| camera | Michael Butler |
| cut |
Gerald B. Greenberg Stephen A. Rotter Dede Allen |
| occupation | |
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Duel on the Missouri is a 1976 Late Western directed by Arthur Penn and starring Jack Nicholson and Marlon Brando .
One of the advertising slogans read: “ One steals to live, the other lives to kill. "
action
Wealthy horse breeder David Braxton has Sandy, a member of Tom Logan's gang of horse thieves, hanged after he was caught red-handed.
Logan and his comrades decide to gradually ruin Braxton. Pretending to be a harmless farmer, he buys a piece of land from him to build a ranch. While he was negotiating the purchase with old Braxton, Logan's gang hung his foreman in revenge on the same tree that her boyfriend died on.
The consequences are not long in coming. Braxton hires eccentric regulator Robert E. Lee Clayton. The self-proclaimed law enforcement officer should finally solve the problem with the cattle thieves.
While Logan's cronies are systematically ruining Braxton, Tom Logan and Braxton's idiosyncratic daughter Jane grow closer. She also keeps silent, although she has already seen through his facade of an innocent farmer and knows the truth. But Robert Clayton also distrusts Logan and tries to provoke him in order to lure him out of his reserve. When the latter refuses to agree, Clayton, behind whose eccentric demeanor hides a sadistic killer, begins to kill Logan's friends one after the other.
Ultimately, Logan can no longer hold back. After the last of his comrades was killed with Cal, who was a kind of father figure to him, he ambushes Clayton and cuts his throat while he sleeps. Then he kills old Braxton, who was responsible for everything, during a shootout. Then grabs Logan his belongings to try a new start somewhere. He and Jane Braxton split up, but despite everything fall apart in friendship.
Reviews
- Lexicon of the international film : “ Idiosyncratic, psychologically differentiated, sometimes exaggerated and intrusive Western that always becomes exciting when the pace of the external action slows down. "
- Cinema : “ Even Marlon Brando and Jack Nicholson couldn't save the brutal western. The epic is considered one of the worst 'great' films of all time. "
- Mark Stohr judged in the film magazine cut the film as " porous psychodrama " in place of a Heldenepos. That makes the film - which is a typical child of the 70s - seem " strange, but by no means less worth seeing ".
- Phil Hardy notes that the film is dedicated to the "uniqueness of the characters" . He calls the result “breathtaking” . Brandos Lee Clayton is "probably the strangest character in the 1970s western." The box office failure of the film contributed to the decline of the western genre in the late 1970s.
- “ ... an idiosyncratic western that makes the tense and changing relationships between an autocratic farmer, the leader of a gang of cattle thieves and an eccentric 'regulator' who is supposed to bring down the cattle thieves, the subject of his drama. The film shows a personal signature, both in the drawing of people and in the invention of comical scenes that turn pathos into ridiculousness. "
Others
- The film is originally called "Missouri Breaks". The Missouri Breaks are sandstone and slate cliffs of the Missouri River.
- The film can be assigned to the so-called New Hollywood , a movement that consciously defends itself against the established narrative structures. The gangster who stands up against the establishment is the good one, while the establishment is represented by brutality and sadism . That the outlaw wins in the end is also a break with the existing Western conventions.
- The film is on the American Humane Association's "Unacceptable Films List" because a horse drowned during filming. Another was crippled and several other horses were injured during a crowd scene.
- During filming, which took place in Montana in the summer of 1975 , it became a problem that the script was still full of inconsistencies. Striving to improve the script, Brando was ultimately so exasperated by the lack of control Director Penn had over the production that he began to quarrel on the set - as in previous, similar cases - and the role of Clayton as an eccentric played, spoke with an Irish accent and stole the show from the other performers with little gags that were actually unrelated to the film.
- There were occasional tensions between Jack Nicholson and Marlon Brando, who wanted Nicholson's role to be rewritten as a worn-out Indian, but this was prevented. Brando also enjoyed telling himself that he had a tête-à-tête with Nicholson during the filming , which Nicholson vigorously denied.
- Jack Nicholson didn't like Marlon Brando working with cue boards. During their scenes together, Nicholson's concentration was disturbed every time Brando glanced sideways at the board behind the cameraman.
- Marlon Brando received a salary of $ 1 million for five weeks of work and an 11.25% share of the gross profit. Jack Nicholson received a salary of $ 1.25 million and a 10% profit share for ten weeks.
- Duel am Missouri , which premiered in May 1976, was an artistic and commercial failure, but is considered to be the film in which Brando showed a remnant of originality and brilliance for the last time.
Web links
- The Missouri Breaks in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Duel on the Missouri. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from August 24, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Phil Hardy: The Encyclopedia of Western Movies. Woodbury Press Minneapolis 1984. ISBN 0-8300-0405-X . P. 349f
- ^ Ulrich Gregor , History of the Film from 1960. Bertelsmann, Munich 1978, ISBN 3-570-00816-9 , p. 473.
- ↑ Trivia IMDB (Eng.)
- ^ Peter Manso: Brando. The biography. Hyperion, New York 1994, ISBN 0-7868-6063-4 , pp. 806, 810-814
