Companions of horror
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Companions of horror |
| Original title | The Wild North |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1952 |
| length | 97 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Andrew Marton |
| script | Frank Fenton |
| production | Stephen Ames |
| music | Bronislau caper |
| camera | Robert Surtees |
| cut | John Dunning |
| occupation | |
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Companions of horror (original title: The Wild North ) is an American western filmed in 1951 and premiered the following year . It was first shown in German-speaking countries on January 23, 1953.
action
Trapper Jule Vincent comes to a small North American town. In the local saloon there is an argument with a brawler named Brody who is harassing a young Indian woman. The Indian asks Jule to take her to her tribe by canoe the next day. Surprisingly, Brody comes along, who wants to come along. Jule ultimately decides to take him with her. He delivers the Indian to their tribe, meanwhile the dead Brody is washed up on the river bank. Sheriff Pedley takes up the chase. In the wintry wilderness he finds Vincent, who allows himself to be arrested without a fight. On the way back, both fight a war of nerves in which Vincent Pedley leads deeper and deeper into the snowy expanses of the Canadian forests. Ultimately, Vincent can clarify that he is innocent of the murder attached to him.
reception
The film grossed $ 2 million at the box office on the first weekend in North America.
Reviews
"With this western full of impressive landscape and animal shots, Andrew Marton made a gripping film that shows how enemies at first become friends"
“The film entertains in different ways: as a Stewart-Granger vehicle - Jules is one of those disproportionately self-confident, loud and at the same time melancholic warhorse with depth, which Granger embodies better than anyone else; as an action-packed nature survival drama [...]; as a road movie […]; as a human drama - the classic dilemma as to whether a subjectively innocent person should surrender himself to the law and thus risk his conviction; as westerns with authentic Indian scenes, mounties, saloon fights, friendship, love and humor. "
Web links
- The Wild North in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Companions of horror in the lexicon of international film
- Companions of horror / In the wild north on br.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Top Box-Office Hits of 1952 . In: Variety , Jan. 7, 1953.
- ↑ Companions of Horror. In: prisma.de. prisma-Verlag , accessed on August 31, 2017 .
- ^ Gregor Hauser, Peter L. Stadlbaur: Prairie bandits: The gripping world of B-Westerns . Verlag Reinhard Marheinecke 2018, ISBN 978-3-932053-98-6 . P. 42.