A man becomes a beast

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Movie
German title A man becomes a beast
Original title Death Hunt
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1981
length 97 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Peter R. Hunt
script Michael Grais
Mark Victor
production Murray Shostak
music Jerrold Immel
camera James Devis
cut John F. Burnett
Allan Jacobs
occupation

A man becomes a beast (in the original Death Hunt ; in German also Yukon ) is an American film released in 1981 with Charles Bronson , Lee Marvin and Angie Dickinson . Directed by Peter R. Hunt . The film describes in a fictionalized form the actual hunt of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police on a Canadian trapper named Albert Johnson .

action

The film is set in the Yukon Territory in 1931 . Trapper Albert Johnson witnessed a dog fight. One of the dogs, a Berger Blanc Suisse , is seriously injured in the fight. Johnson buys the dog for $ 200 after a violent argument with the owner  .

Enraged by his defeat in the altercation, Hazel claims the dog was stolen from him and heads off to Johnson's cabin with friends. While two of these friends distract Johnson, the others try to shoot him. Johnson kills the trapper who previously shot the German Shepherd, who was groomed to health.

Johnson had bought 700 rounds of ammunition at the local trading post and paid for it in 100 dollar bills, leading the men to believe that he was the mythical, legendary "mad trapper" who is believed to have killed trappers in the wild for their gold teeth.

After the old trapper Bill Luce Johnson warned that the Mounties would intervene , he converted his log cabin into a fortress with loopholes and a deeper ground.

Sergeant Edgar Millen, Commander of the Local Mounties, escorts a group of Mounties and trappers to Johnson's cabin. The Mounty wants to try with Johnson's help to resolve the dispute. But one of the trappers opens fire before Johnson has a chance to retaliate. Many trappers are killed in the ensuing battle. The group blows up Johnson's hut with dynamite , but he escapes and shoots a Mounty while trying to escape.

Two other men in the group then go into pursuit with dogs. Because of the $ 1,000 reward offered for Johnson's capture, more trappers join the search, as well as Hank Tucker, a Royal Canadian Air Force pilot who was assigned to the search by the Canadian government. Tucker told the persecutors, Johnson was in the First World War, a member of a reconnaissance unit of the United States Army was.

Johnson uses a variety of concealment techniques on his escape to avoid Millen's group and the rest of the pursuers. As the chase progresses, Millen begins to admire Johnson's extraordinary abilities and expresses his displeasure with the growing number of actually uninvolved pursuers.

Bill Luce meets two trappers whom he kills to rob them of their gold teeth. It seems like he's the real "mad trapper".

The pursuers catch up with Johnson. Tucker kills a member of Millen's group by carelessly using the machine gun on his aircraft , whereupon he himself is shot at. Tucker flies into a mountain and is killed. Johnson shoots another man and escapes again.

Luce meets Johnson and tries to kill him, presumably to get the reward. Johnson, however, outsmarted him and forced him at gunpoint to put on his clothes and to flee. Millen discovers Luce, who is fleeing, but confuses him with Johnson because of his clothes and shoots him. The bullet shreds his face so that the corpse cannot be identified. After the fatal shot, both Millen and Adams discover the real Johnson, who is fleeing over a high mountain pass.

The Mounties let Johnson escape to the Yukon . They understand that his actions were acts of self-defense. One of the trappers finds a bag full of gold on the corpse and they conclude that the "mad trapper" has finally been stopped.

criticism

“Moderately exciting adventure film that is tailored entirely to its stars. In the sentimental homage to an outdated ideal of masculinity, highly out of date. "

- Lexicon of international film

“The action is sweeping - but unfortunately there is too little of it. The film is based on a case from 1931. Conclusion: A bit slow for a hunt. "

- Cinema

“Director Peter Hunt (...) staged a prominently cast but not very original action cracker who proclaimed a questionable ideal of men. Hunt shot the adventure film, which supposedly is based on a true story, in Alberta, Canada. Fascinating: the wonderful natural backdrop. "

- prism

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A man becomes a beast. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. ↑ A man becomes a beast on cinema.de
  3. ↑ A man becomes a beast on prisma.de