Gold Fever (1964)

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Movie
German title Gold fever
Original title Blood on the Arrow
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1964
length 91 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Sidney Salkow
script Mark Hanna ,
Robert E. Kent
production Leon Fromkess ,
Sam Firks
music Richard LaSalle
camera Kenneth Peach
cut William Austin
occupation

Goldfieber (Original title: Blood On The Arrow ) is a western by the director Sidney Salkow from 1964 with Wendell Corey as Clint Mailer, Martha Hyer as Nancy Mailer, Paul Mantee as Segura, Dandy Curran as Tim Mailer and Dale Robertson as Wade Cooper.

action

Wanted gunslinger Wade Cooper is the only survivor of an Apache attack on the cavalry unit that captured him. Nancy Mailer rescues the injured man and takes him to her husband Clint's trading post. Clint, who turns out to be a cowardly curmudgeon, doesn't want Nancy to nurse the injured person back to health, but his wife prevails.

The Apaches raid the trading post and take the Mailer's son hostage. They demand rifles for release. Clint Mailer enlists the help of a band of bandits who are supposed to steal rifles from an army depot for him. But the robbery goes wrong, the bandits are caught and shot.

Cooper is able to save the boy by luring the Apaches into a gold mine and killing them with a booby trap. Nancy has now fallen in love with him. She leaves her husband and starts a new life with Cooper.

criticism

"Fleetingly staged, moderately exciting Western."

- Lexicon of international film

“Well-intentioned, average Westerner, whose superficial questioning will confuse younger film-goers. Therefore only suitable from the age of 16. "

- Protestant film observer (review No. 23/1966)

background

The film premiered in the United States on October 11, 1964. It first appeared in German cinemas on January 14, 1966.

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