Count Bobby, the horror of the Wild West
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| Original title | Count Bobby, the horror of the Wild West |
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| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1966 |
| length | 92 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
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| Director | Paul Martin |
| script | Robert Oxford, Kurt Nachmann |
| production |
Sascha film ( Herbert Gruber ) |
| music | Heinz Gietz |
| camera | Sepp Ketterer |
| cut | Arnd Heyne |
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Graf Bobby, the horror of the Wild West is an Austrian comedy film directed by Paul Martin . The film produced by Sascha-Film was released in German cinemas on January 5, 1966.
These are the sequels to the films The Adventures of Count Bobby (1961) and The Sweet Life of Count Bobby (1962).
action
The impoverished Count Bobby , who lives in Vienna, receives the news that his uncle Johann, known as "The Blue Jo", has died in the USA. Together with his friend Mucki, he travels to the city of Devils Town, Arizona , to take over the inheritance there. The two hope that the legacy will be a gold mine. The villainous attorney Doc Harper, who was tasked with handling the estate, tries to take the inheritance under the nail. It really is a mine.
Jezabel employs them in her saloon : Bobby as the piano player Jack, Mucki as the bartender Jim. In these roles you have the opportunity to spy on the adversaries. Bobby falls in love with Millie, the sheriff's daughter.
Bobby and Mucki can build up a reputation as gunslingers with the suitcase full of trick utensils that they brought with them. Bobby and Millie eventually find out that the mine they inherited does not contain gold, but is home to bootleggers and smugglers.
Since Bobby is only known as Jack, he builds up a hoax with Mucki and Millie: They spread the rumor that Count Bobby is a killer and murders everyone who gets in his way. Doc Harper asks Jack to stop him.
In the end, Bobby can take over the inheritance in time, whereby the distillery is destroyed in an explosion . The explosion also exposed the oil that was hidden in the property. Count Bobby gets rich and changes Devils Town according to his wishes.
History of origin
prehistory
The Peter Alexander films The Adventures of Count Bobby (1961) and The Sweet Life of Count Bobby (1962) had proven to be great hits with audiences. Constantin Filmverleih had already announced another Graf Bobby film for the spring of 1963, entitled Count Bobby's Great Nights , which, however, was never realized.
In the following years Peter Alexander was able to celebrate great successes with comedies like Der Musterknabe (1963) or ... and something like that has to go to bed at 8 (1965). At the height of the popularity of Karl May and other western films , various film producers finally began to make plans to produce an adventure film with Alexander. For example, the dramaturges of Artur Brauner's CCC film in 1964 suggested Peter Alexander for the lead role in the Chinese-based and ultimately unrealized film adaptation of Karl May's novel The bluish red Methuselah .
Independently of this, Wiener Sascha-Film prepared a Peter-Alexander-Western in cooperation with Gloria-Filmverleih, which was also to be the continuation of the successful Graf Bobby films. The initially intended title That only exists in Texas was changed accordingly to Count Bobby, the horror of the Wild West . The director hired Paul Martin , who had already directed several Peter Alexander films and was already familiar with the genre through his western Die Goldsuch von Arkansas (1964).
production
The shooting took place in 1965 in Vienna and near Trebinje in Yugoslavia . The Belvedere Palace in Vienna served as the backdrop for Count Bobby's palace. The fictional location Devils Town was the same Yugoslav western town that was originally built as Golden Hill for the film Old Shatterhand (1964) and was also seen as Moon Valley in Freddy and the Song of the Prairie (1964). The Belgrade company Avala Film had set up a provisional supply base in the houses and stored costumes and props there. Yugoslavia is officially not considered a production country, since Avala Film was only active as a service partner of Sascha-Film.
A train of the former Bosnian narrow-gauge railway , still built by Austria, appears as a western train , which is pulled by a JZ class 185 locomotive. Contrary to the standard gauge used in the Wild West, this is a narrow-gauge railway of 760 mm , the machine was rudimentarily prepared as a "Western locomotive ". In one shot you can even see the Klose engine of this narrow-gauge support tender locomotive built by Krauss in Linz and the Yugoslav series number can also be clearly seen.
The rest of the scene was designed by the film architect Fritz Jüptner-Jonstorff . Barbara Langbein was responsible for the costumes. The cameraman was Sepp Ketterer , assisted by Kurt Junek . Production managers were Karl Schwetter and Mihajlo Rasić.
music
The music for the film was penned by Heinz Gietz , including the three hits sung in the film. The lyrics are from Kurt Nachmann , who also wrote the script. The musical direction took Johannes Fehring . The following vocal numbers can be heard in the film:
- Peter Alexander and Gunther Philipp : Yes, you have to be such a cowboy
- Peter Alexander: Johnny One-Two-Three
- Peter Alexander: Suddenly everything is so simple .
None of the songs was released on record at the time . It was not until 1997 that the film versions appeared on CD . The title Suddenly everything is so simple is also included in a version by Freddy Breck on his album Die Welt ist voll Musik from 1974.
reception
publication
The German theatrical release of the film was on January 5, 1966. However, by this time both the Karl May films and the Schlager film genre had already reached their commercial peak. Accordingly, the third Graf Bobby film did not follow up on the success of the two predecessors.
Reviews
"Completely unsuccessful Wild West comedy, whose parodistic intentions are drowned in the most undemanding slapstick."
“In this film, too, there is little to laugh about, because the gags from the clothes box are too hackneyed, the plot is too unimaginative, and Peter Alexander's routine is too familiar. Conclusion of this Graf Bobby film: Nothing new in the Wild West either. "
“And because nobody in the Wild West knows how stupid (“ but good stupid! ”) The two of them are, they quickly have the reputation of two dangerous European killers. That's enough for the rest. Not even good stupid, just stupid. "
Web links
- Count Bobby, the terror of the Wild West in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Count Bobby, the horror of the wild west at Filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael Petzel: Karl-May-Filmbuch . Karl-May-Verlag, Bamberg 1998, ISBN 3-7802-0153-4 , p. 473-474 .
- ↑ Peter Alexander: Filmtreffer, 4 . Bear Family Records . 1997. Order no. BCD 15995 AH
- ↑ Freddy Breck: The world is full of music on hitparade.ch
- ↑ Count Bobby, the horror of the Wild West. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Manfred Hobsch: love, dance and 1000 hit films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-89602-166-4 , p. 188 .
- ^ Joe Hembus: Western Lexicon . 1272 films from 1894 to the present day. 4th edition. Heyne Verlag, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-453-08121-8 , p. 278 .