Enmity (film)

Movie
German title	enmity
Original title	The Painted Desert
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	1931
length	79 minutes
Rod
Director	Howard Higgin
script	Tom Buckingham Howard Higgin
production	EB Derr
music	Francis Gromon
camera	Edward Snyder
occupation
William "Bill" Boyd : Bill Holbrook Helen Twelvetrees : Mary Ellen Cameron William Farnum : Bill "Cash" Holbrook J. Farrell MacDonald : Jeff Cameron Clark Gable : Rance Brett Charles Sellon : Tonopah Hugh Adams : "Dynamite" Wade Boteler : Bob Carson Will Walling : Kirby Edmund Breese : Judge Matthews Edward Hearn : Tex William Le Maire : Denver Richard Cramer : Provney

Enmity (OT The Painted Desert ) is a 1931 American film starring William Boyd and Helen Twelvetrees . The western produced by RKO Pictures represents the beginning of Clark Gable's career in talkies .

action

Friends Cash and Jeff find an infant in an abandoned settlement camp and get into an argument about who should look after him. Ultimately, Cash takes care of the boy and raises him like his own son. Although they own neighboring farms , even after years there is still a bitter feud between the two former friends.

When Bill has matured into a young man, he finally wants to end the feud and hands Jeff, who now has a daughter, an olive branch as a symbol of peace. After the apparent reconciliation, bitterness breaks through again and the situation escalates; Suddenly Bill finds himself between the front lines and faces his own adoptive father. In the end he succeeds in settling the dispute over water rights between the farmers. Bill marries Jeff's daughter Mary Ellen.

background

Enmity , which premiered on March 7, 1931 and was shot in the Painted Desert in Arizona , shows Boyd before his career in the American western series Hopalong Cassidy and the early Helen Twelvetrees - a starlet of the then fledgling talkie.

Clark Gable's role as Rance Brett - an unshaven former criminal who shows no remorse for the acts committed - made him a sought-after supporting actor overnight. In the same year MGM signed him and Gable became one of the most famous male Hollywood stars of his time.

Twelve years later Robert Mitchum started his career, also at the side of William Boydin, in a similar role.

Enmity was also shown as part of the 155 episode Western series Western von Yesterday , which was broadcast on ZDF from May 1978 to July 1986 . The series consists of westerns from the 1930s and 1940s, in which the films were divided into episodes of 25 minutes each.

criticism

Phil Hardy noted in The Encyclopedia of Western Movies that the film was an "outstanding production," mainly due to Snyder's camera work; his landscape shots of the desert give the film a "highly praised bitter beauty" that saves it from the "sentimental dialogues" and the "melodramatic story".

Web links

• Hostility in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Hostility in the OFDB

Individual evidence

1. ^ Phil Hardy: The Encyclopedia of Western Movies . Woodbury Press, Minneapolis 1984. ISBN 0-8300-0405-X . P. 31