A man goes his way
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | A man goes his way |
| Original title | The Naked Edge |
| Country of production | UK , USA |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1961 |
| length | 97 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Michael Anderson |
| script | Joseph Stefano |
| production |
Marlon Brando Sr. George Glass Walter Seltzer |
| music | William Alwyn |
| camera | Erwin Hillier |
| cut | Gordon Pilkington |
| occupation | |
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A Man Goes His Way is a 1961 British - American thriller directed by Michael Anderson and starring Gary Cooper and Deborah Kerr .
action
Donald Heath, an employee of an English freight forwarding company, is sentenced to life imprisonment on the basis of the testimony of the American managing director George Radcliffe for murder and robbery. The defendant continued to plead his innocence and the stolen £ 60,000 was not found.
When Radcliffe leaves the courthouse with his wife Martha, he is approached by a certain Jeremy Clay (in the original: Gray), who asks him how it feels to have someone behind bars.
Six years later, Radcliffe received a letter from a mailbag that was stolen five years ago and has only now been found again. Martha opens the letter, reads it and is startled. It is from Jeremy Clay, and it is accused of having committed the murder himself out of greed.
Martha now remembers various strange reactions from her husband at the time, and she begins to doubt George. An old friend and a former childhood friend do not contribute to relaxation either. They claim to have seen George in London while Martha thought he was in Paris on a business trip.
Radcliffe hasn't taken the letter too seriously so far. But when he sees his wife getting further and further away from him, he goes to see Jeremy, the writer of the letter. Martha, for her part, tries to find out the truth on her own, she rummages through old newspaper archives and visits the convict's wife. Of course, Mrs. Heath is also convinced of the innocence of her husband Donald, which increases Martha's doubts about her husband.
On her search Martha finally meets the real murderer; it is Clay who betrays himself with a thoughtless remark and sees no other way out than to kill her and accuse her husband of murder. But at the last minute Radcliffe intervenes as a savior and overpowers Clay.
Reviews
"The crime game, which is remarkably high-quality and suspenseful except for the lurid conclusion, shows Gary Cooper in his last role."
background
Joseph Stefano's script was based on Max Ehrlicher's novel First Train to Babylon .
Leading actor Gary Cooper , who was also a co-producer with his Baroda Productions, worked with director Michael Anderson for the second time after Die Not Afraid of Death . Despite his weakened health, he survived filming, which was completed in England in December 1960. It was to be his last film as he succumbed to cancer the following year.
The United Artists brought the film to German cinemas in 1961, after the death of Gary Cooper . In this dubbed version, which is still in use today, Gary Cooper got the voice of Paul Klinger .
literature
- Max Ehrlich: Robbery on the early train . Detective novel (Original title: First Train to Babylon ). German by Max von Alvensleben. Humanitas Verlag, Konstanz 1957, 203 pp.
- Illustrated film stage . Munich, No. 5855, ZDB -ID 136470-4 .
- Homer Dickens: Gary Cooper and His Films . Wilhelm Goldmann Verlag, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-442-10218-9 (Citadel film books = pocket books 10218 = Goldmann magnum book 10218).
Web links
- A man goes his way in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ A man goes his way. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .