Danger in the valley of the tigers
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Danger in the valley of the tigers |
| Original title | Maya |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1966 |
| length | 91 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | John Berry |
| script | John Fante |
| production |
Frank King , Maurice King |
| music | Riz Ortolani |
| camera | Günther Senftleben |
| cut | Richard V. Heermance |
| occupation | |
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Danger in the Valley of the Tigers is an adventure and family film made by John Berry in India in 1965 in the form of "a child-friendly, postcard-perfect elephant story". B-Western star Clint Walker plays an American former big game hunter who lives in India, is visited by his teenage son and falls out with him as soon as he arrives. The German cameraman Günther Senftleben created amazing animal and landscape shots from the subcontinent.
action
After the death of his mother, Terry Bowen travels to India from Wyoming, USA , where his unknown father, Hugh Bowen, lives. He worked as a big game hunter in the past, but has now become a bitter hermit. The tall American met his filius from the beginning quite dismissive and gruff and doesn't know what to do with Terry. Terry is fascinated by the flora and fauna of the country and therefore reacts all the more horrified when one day father Hugh shoots a roaming cheetah that Terry had just become friends with. The boy is so horrified that he runs away from his father, who is completely new to him, and doesn't want to have anything to do with him anymore. Terry wants to go home to the United States immediately, so he takes the next train.
However, the 13-year-old jumps off while driving and runs into the adjacent jungle. In his inexperience, Terry soon puts himself in danger. He falls into a river and threatens to drown in the rapids. At the last moment Raji saves him. The Indian boy, who is almost the same age, is currently on a kind of pilgrimage to a temple with the white elephant Primo, which the Indians regard as "sacred", and his mother Maya. With this symbolic act Raji wants to fulfill a vow and complete the pilgrimage started by his deceased father. Terry becomes friends with Raji and accompanies him on an adventure trip through impassable, rural India. On their odyssey, the boys have not unproblematic encounters with some dangerous animals but also with human cutthroats. In one village, they are copied from the white elephant. In a daring rescue operation, however, Raji and Terry free Primo. A ragged man, called the “one-eyed”, then clings to the boys' heels, because he is hoping for a fat catch premium for Primo.
Their escape from the rascal leads Terry and Raji to the notorious Valley of the Tigers, where the mother elephant Maya is embroiled in a life and death fight with two big cats. One tiger is thrown through the air, the other is trampled by the gray giant. In the meantime, Hugh Bowen has become aware of his responsibility for his son and, entirely the old big game hunter, has stuck to his trail. Soon he catches up with Terry and his friend Raji and can intervene to protect them when more trouble threatens the two. Now it is also important for Hugh Bowen to show his true colors and face an old trauma that finally drove him to give up his job: Hugh was once attacked and seriously injured by a man-eating tiger. The moment of truth comes.
Production notes
Danger in the Valley of the Tigers was premiered on May 26, 1966 in Germany. It was not until four weeks later, on June 22, 1966, that the adventure film was also shown in the USA, the country of production. The first broadcast on German television took place on a Sunday afternoon, April 27, 1975, on ZDF.
The producing brothers Frank and Maurice King headed their own company, the King Brothers Productions . Danger in the Valley of the Tigers was one of her last films. Ted Haworth designed the few film structures. The German Rüdiger von Sperl ( Der Kommissar , Derrick , Das Boot ) took care of the makeup.
useful information
After the success of the film, Maya went into (TV) series in 1967 (18 episodes). Walker's film son Jay North and Sajid Khan as his Indian companion took up their roles in the movie again.
Jalal Din and Lois Roth adapted the film to a comic book story (published in December 1966).
Reviews
The Movie & Video Guide saw the flick as a “silly, youthful jungle story”.
Halliwell's Film Guide found that Maya was "a pretty, but otherwise uninteresting animal drama".
"Largely captivating, child-friendly adventure entertainment with beautiful landscape shots."
Cinema located an "exciting story for children"
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kay Less : The large personal dictionary of films , Volume 1, p. 367. Berlin 2001
- ↑ The ARD program information writes: "John Berry's adventure film impresses with its exotic landscape shots and exciting animal scenes."
- ↑ This scene was removed from some versions, probably for reasons of youth protection, in order to get permission for six year olds.
- ^ Leonard Maltin : Movie & Video Guide, 1996 edition, p. 840
- ^ Leslie Halliwell : Halliwell's Film Guide, Seventh Edition, New York 1989, p. 664
- ↑ Danger in the Valley of the Tigers. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed July 18, 2018 .
- ↑ Danger in the Valley of the Tigers on cinema.de, accessed on July 18, 2018.
Web links
- Danger in the Valley of the Tiger in the Internet Movie Database (English)