Ticket to the afterlife
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Ticket to the afterlife |
| Original title | Decision at Sundown |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1957 |
| length | 77 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Budd Boetticher |
| script | Charles Lang |
| production | Harry Joe Brown |
| music | Heinz Roemheld |
| camera | Burnett Guffey |
| cut | Al Clark |
| occupation | |
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Ticket to the Hereafter is an American western directed by Budd Boetticher from 1957.
action
Bart Allison was a farmer before he was called to the American Civil War . He comes back after the war and finds that his wife has committed suicide. He blames the windy Tate Kimbrough for having an affair with Bart's wife while he was away. Bart Allison and his friend Sam set out to track down Tate Kimbrough and seek revenge. Kimbrough now lives in the small town of Sundown , where he has taken economic power in the city through skill and violence. Bart Allison bursts into the middle of the wedding ceremony of Kimbrough and Lucy Summerton, a respected daughter of the town. The wedding is interrupted by the incident. Bart threatens Kimbrough, but does not shoot him right away in the church, but retires to a warehouse. There he holed up and was put under pressure by Kimbrough's people. For Bart and Sam, the situation looks hopeless. Sam tries to persuade the friend to give up and leave town. He also confronts Bart with the fact that his wife was not as innocent as he idealized - she had more affairs in his absence. Bart doesn't want to believe this, but lets Sam go away. When he was shot unarmed, Dr. John Storrow, who is in love with Lucy Summerton, took the initiative. He finally demands from the citizens of the city resistance against the gangster Kimbrough. The citizens allow themselves to be persuaded and disarm the men of Kimbrouhg, so that a fair duel between the sheriff, who belongs to Kimbrough, and Bart Allison can now take place. It quickly becomes apparent that Allison is superior. After the sheriff is dead, Kimbrough wants to face the fight with Allison. His lover Ruby, who fears for his life, shoots him in the shoulder when the showdown with Allison comes to make a fight impossible. Then she leaves the city with him, as does Allison, who can now live in peace again.
background
Ticket to the Hereafter is one of a series of westerns that Budd Boetticher staged inexpensively with Randolph Scott as a hero at the end of the 1950s and shows Scott at the end of his career as an aged western hero.
Reviews
- WDR : Budd Boetticher, as a western director, gave this genre a very special touch. "Ticket to the Hereafter" is one of his best films. The main actor here, as in most Boetticher westerns, is Randolph Scott. In working with the director, he repeatedly came up with differentiated characters who left the cliché of the Western hero far behind.
- Lexicon of international films : A cowboy pursues a villain who seduces his wife and is responsible for her suicide, while at the same time liberating a small town from its oppressor. Psychologically overloaded, but original and exciting B-Western by Boetticher / Scott.
- Joe Hembus judges that the film will "after a promising beginning (...) the ground pulled from under your feet." The hero stumbled around as a "ridiculous figure" .
- Phil Hardy notes that the film has a “darker vibe” than any of the other Western Boettichers. In his obsession, Scott recalled the characters played by James Stewart in Anthony Mann's westerns.
- Evangelical film observer : Average western in which a man wants to take revenge on the seducer of his wife and has to learn that he was wrong about his wife. Possible for adults.
Web links
- Decision at Sundown at the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ticket to the afterlife. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ^ Joe Hembus: Western Lexicon . 1272 films from 1894-1975. 2nd Edition. Hanser , Munich / Vienna 1977, ISBN 3-446-12189-7 , pp. 177 .
- ^ Phil Hardy: The Encyclopedia of Western Movies . Woodbury Press, Minneapolis 1984, ISBN 0-8300-0405-X , pp. 253 (English).
- ↑ Ev. Munich Press Association, Review No. 569/1958