Miss Winnetou

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Movie
German title Miss Winnetou
Original title Susannah of the Mounties
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1939
length 90 minutes
Rod
Director William A. Seiter
Walter Lang
script Robert Ellis
Helen Logan
production Darryl F. Zanuck
music David Buttolph
Charles Maxwell
R. H. Bassett
camera Arthur C. Miller
cut Robert Bischoff
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Miss Winnetou is a 1939 American western drama directed by William A. Seiter and Walter Lang starring Shirley Temple and Randolph Scott , her partner from Shirley on Wave 303 . The story is based on the novel " Susannah, A Little Girl of the Mounties " (1936) by Muriel Denison .

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The Wild West of Canada in the 1880s. The construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway to the west repeatedly leads to clashes with the indigenous people living there, the "Indians", who do not want to accept the land grab of the "white man" without resistance. One day, as a result of an attack, there is a massacre among travelers and new settlers, which only little Susannah (in the German dubbed version from 1939 “Susanne”) “Su” Sheldon survives. Susannah is discovered by a mounted Mountie patrol led by Inspector Angus "Monty" Montague and brought to safety. The girl is brought back to the fort, where Monty and his friend Pat O'Hannegan adopt Susanne. The little one recovers quickly, but soon there is a threat of renewed unrest in the camp. Because the very pretty Vicky Standing, daughter of the influential Superintendent Standing, arrives here from Toronto to visit her father. Soon Monty's heart is aflame and rivalries arise with Susannah and Harlan Chambers, the manager of the railroad warehouse.

When a gang of renegade Indians steals horses from Chambers' camp, it is the compensatory chief Big Eagle who promises to arrest the renegade horse thief and hand them over to the "white man". As a gesture of goodwill, the chief leaves his son Little Chief at the Mountie outpost. The Indian boy quickly makes friends with Susanne and teaches her everything you need to know about Indian life. Susanne is now "Miss Winnetou". One day, while the youngsters are riding out, they experience how the Indian horse thief Wolf Pelt tries to sell Chambers the steeds he has stolen, which leads Chambers to threaten the Indians with extermination. Pelt uses Chambers' threat to make it clear to his tribe that the “white man” only understands the language of war.

The following night, he raids Mountie Fort to get Little Chief's son out and kidnap Monty. When the Indians demand that the railway line disappear or that Monty will die, the mounted Susannah sets out in search of Monty and is captured by the Indians in the process. That night, as the tribe is preparing to burn Monty at a stake, Susannah escapes the wigwam and charges Wolf Pelt with inciting Chambers to theft. When Wolf Pelt denies the allegations, the great chief calls on people to find out the truth according to the Indian rite by means of a falling stick. He falls in the direction of Wolf Pelt and thus proves that he lied. The Indian chief sets Monty free and smokes the peace pipe with Su and Monty .

Production notes

Miss Winnetou was written in Hollywood from January 23, 1939 (with post-recordings from March 30, 1939) and was premiered on June 23, 1939. The German premiere took place on November 28, 1939 in Kiel, the Berlin premiere was on January 9, 1940. This made Miss Winnetou the last Shirley Temple film to be shown in German cinemas during the Third Reich.

Production manager Darryl F. Zanuck was also unnamed production manager, Kenneth Macgowan production manager. Richard Day designed the film structures carried out by Albert Hogsett , Thomas Little took care of the equipment. Gwen Wakeling was responsible for the costumes. Louis Silvers was musical director.

useful information

Many of the Native American contributors were actually Native Americans and were part of the Blackfoot tribe who lived on a reservation in Montana.

The Englishwoman Margaret Lockwood had achieved her big breakthrough the year before with the Hitchcock crime thriller A Lady Disappears and was subsequently committed to Hollywood at short notice, with rather mixed results.

Dubbing (1939)

role actor Voice actor
Susanne, called Su Shirley Temple Carmen Lahrmann
Angus "Monty" Montague Randolph Scott Herbert Gernot
Pat O'Hannegan J. Farrell MacDonald CW castle
Harlan Cambers Lester Matthews Hanns Eggerth
Indian chief Chief John Big Tree Hans Meyer-Hanno

Reinhard W. Noack directed the dialogue.

Dubbing (1976, ZDF)

role actor Voice actor
Susanne, called Su Shirley Temple Madeleine proud
Angus "Monty" Montague Randolph Scott Peter Kirchberger
Vicky Standing Margaret Lockwood Katrin Schaake

Reviews

“ Exclusively for the young target audience. (...) Illogical situations do not make more of it than a humble fairy tale . "

- Variety , 1939

The Movie & Video Guide found: " ... predictable but entertaining temple vehicle ".

Halliwell's Film Guide commented, “ Appropriate star-action romance. Shirley's last real success. "

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Halliwell's Film Guide names Bert Glennon
  2. ↑ In the original Susannah Sheldon
  3. ↑ This distribution title was deliberately chosen for Karl May -affine Germany, because it was hoped for an even better box-office success than usual with Shirley Temple productions.
  4. ↑ The Berlin premiere date is wrongly mentioned several times as the German premiere date. From around 1938, however, many US productions were no longer started in Berlin, but in the German provinces. After the UFA was nationalized, the premiere cinemas were reserved for the German films. Although some US films still had their German premieres in capital city cinemas such as the traditional Marble House , these American productions were often previously shown in smaller cities in the Reich and only weeks or even months later in Berlin.
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  7. ^ Leonard Maltin : Movie & Video Guide, 1996 edition, p. 1276
  8. ^ Leslie Halliwell : Halliwell's Film Guide, Seventh Edition, New York 1989, p. 981

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