The wind blows hot
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The wind blows hot |
| Country of production | Federal Republic of Germany , Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1964 |
| length | 102 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Rolf Olsen |
| script |
Paul Clydeburn Don Sharp |
| production | Berolina, Berlin Wiener Stadthalle , Vienna Kurt Ulrich (overall management) |
| music | Erwin Halletz |
| camera | Hanns Matula |
| cut | Wolfgang Wehrum |
| occupation | |
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Hot blowing the wind is a 1964 incurred, German-Austrian Western , in which Rolf Olsen directed. It premiered on November 24, 1964 and was also shown under the title My Friend Shorty .
action
The Wild West in 1896. Chris Harper, his parents Helen and Patrick and their German Shepherd puppy Shorty are caught in a stagecoach robbery in southern Texas . They were on their way to Silver Rock to start a new life there. Chris' uncle Rufus, an eternally drunk, aging cowboy, had lured her by claiming he had discovered a gold vein. When the criminals, led by the villainous Al Nutting, shoot wildly in the air, the horses go through and tear the carriage into an abyss. Chris Harper's parents are killed in the attack in Midnight Canyon. Chris himself gets away with a hand injury, because the seedy fellow traveler Spike Sunday saved him by throwing Chris out of the carriage immediately beforehand.
Spike takes care of Chris, who has lost his memory, and teaches him to shoot. Sundays ulterior motives are not entirely unselfish. He needs a partner who can handle guns since an angry cowboy smashed his shooting hand. Chris' Shorty, who was seriously injured in the attack, is nursed back to health by farmer Richard Bradley. After the robbery he had taken Harper's travel bag in which the dog was. Bradley himself is behind this attack as the spirit rector . High debts had brought him to this act of desperation, but after this fatal outcome he renounced his share of the loot and turned away from his gangster buddies. Little does he know that the travel bag also contains the plans for Rufus Harper's gold vein.
Three years after the attack, Spike and Chris ride into the western town of Cattle City. Chris has now become an excellent shooter. It doesn't take long before Spike gets into a violent clash with Jack Bradley, the rancher's unstable son, in the saloon . Bradley Ranch foreman, Al Nutting, and some of his cronies want to come to the aid of their boss's son when gunslinger Chris makes use of his learned arts. The two friends flee the city headlong, pursued by Bradley's men and the sheriff. When they reach a river, the two friends get caught in a thunderstorm. The river swells massively and they almost drown when trying to cross it. The two are fished out of the tides by Richard Bradley of all people, who takes them to his ranch. There, awakening from their unconsciousness, Spike and Chris first recognize his son Jack. They want to run away secretly, but Ann Bradley, the rancher's wife, and the pretty Meg, an Indian foundling and adopted daughter of Richard and Ann, ask the two men to stay.
Meg takes a great liking to Chris, especially since she hopes to be able to defend herself against Al Nutting's stalking in this way. After a few days, Farmer Bradley returns from the pastures to his ranch, accompanied by the now full-grown German Shepherd Shorty. When Shorty sees Chris, he immediately begins to whine. Chris recognizes him immediately and calls out 'Shorty'! In no time all memories come back to Chris. The moment of vengeance would have come now, had it not been for Meg Bradley. The situation quickly came to a head. Richard Bradley, in poor health since the attack three years ago, dies. It comes to the settlement between Chris and Spike on the one hand and Nutting and Jack on the other hand. Spike is killed in the process. But Chris now has a new and particularly loyal ally in Shorty ...
background
After The Last Ride to Santa Cruz Was The Wind Blowing Hot, the second western from production manager Karl Spiehs in the wake of the Karl May films, which were very successful at the time . In retrospect, Spiehs himself thought it was less successful than its predecessor. Leading actor Thomas Fritsch was unfortunately a mistake.
The film was shot in Yugoslavia , what is now Slovenia . Among other things, the location was in a green valley near Rijeka . The first scenes of the hot winds were shot in a western town just outside Ljubljana .
Distribution, international title was Legend of a Gunfighter .
The film structures come from Otto Pischinger , Leo Metzenbauer and Willi A. Herrmann . The production line was Karl Spiehs , production management Heinz Pollak .
The film dog was actually called Schalk vom Möllerland and was a shepherd dog born in 1959 . Its owner was the dog trainer Rudi Schuhschenk, who ran a dog school in Berlin from 1954 to 2000. Schalk stood in front of the camera several times. In 1960 he was in Sturm im Wasserglas , in 1963 in Mensch und Beast and the television production The Muzzle, and in 1964 in The Death Rays of Dr. Mabuse was seen.
During a film tussle between Rudolf Schündler and Ron Randell , the latter actor suffered a shoulder strain .
criticism
"An extremely simple Wild West adventure from German production, shot in Berlin studios and the Karl May Mountains" of the former Yugoslavia; quite untrustworthy and sentimental. "Cinema.de calls the work" dummdreist ".
Web links
- Hot wind blowing in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Film pictures at cinema.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Roman Schliesser: The super nose. Karl Spiehs and his films , Verlag Carl Ueberreuter, Vienna 2006, p. 79
- ↑ Dog trainer Rudi Schuhschenk in the International Movie Database
- ↑ The wind blows hot. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ http://www.cinema.de/film/heiss-weht-der-wind,1332446,ApplicationGallery.html