Gold in New Frisco
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Gold in New Frisco |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1939 |
| length | 97 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Paul Verhoeven |
| script |
Axel Eggebrecht Ernst Hasselbach |
| production |
Curt Prickler for Bavaria Filmkunst |
| music | Norbert Schultze |
| camera |
Carl Hoffmann (Head) Otto Baecker |
| occupation | |
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Gold in New Frisco is a German adventure film with many western elements from 1939. Directed by Paul Verhoeven , Hans Söhnker , Alexander Golling and Otto Wernicke played the leading roles .
action
In the small town of New Frisco in Alberta , Canada , a stranger named Norton arrives, stays in the most expensive hotel room and pays court to the saleswoman Doris. Without revealing any details to the residents, he goes to work on a piece of land outside the city, which arouses enormous interest in himself. Inspector de Lacy is also very concerned with Norton, although there is no evidence of a wrongdoing.
Some citizens eavesdrop on Norton and conclude that gold is on the lot. They want to buy it from him, but he is asking a horrific price. After Norton continued to fuel the gold rumors, the town's banker, Pepper, offered him $ 80,000 for the property. Norton agrees and insists on a cash payment. In fact, the piece of land is hardly worth anything and the gold only exists in the imagination of Pepper and the people. Immediately thereafter, Norton draws the attention of some citizens to the fact that Pepper had speculated on the depositors' money. The bank storms, Pepper cannot pay his customers the money and his reputation is ruined. Shortly before the crowd wants to hang Pepper, Norton reveals his true identity: He is the son of a former sawmill owner whom Pepper ruined on business. Norton's actions were for the vengeance he has achieved. He lets Doris persuade him to stay in town.
Production notes
The film was shot from May 22nd to early July 1939 in the Bavaria studio in Munich-Geiselgasteig. The outdoor photos were taken in the Lechtal near Reutte . The premiere took place on October 3, 1939 in Frankfurt am Main. The performance in the Atrium Berlin followed on October 20, 1939.
Reviews
The film is being discussed primarily with regard to the underlying National Socialist ideology . That is what the film service called him in 1952 as mediocre, a “fable of retributive justice” in which the angry masses of the people want to lynch a “sucker”. The creators had calculated the "masking" and said the message "in American" so that it would arrive more easily. On the occasion of a screening in 2011, the Federal Archives of the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation wrote that the film guaranteed “amusement and excitement”, but that it was “lured and manipulated” under cover.
Web links
- Gold in New Frisco in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Gold in New Frisco in the Lexicon of International Films
- Gold in New Frisco at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ CineGraph - Lexicon for German-Language Films - Carl Hoffmann
- ↑ film-dienst , No. 10/1952, drawn by "Ma"
- ↑ Program 5–6 / 2011 ( Memento of the original from April 19, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file; 637 kB) of the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation
