Hot gold from Calador
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Hot gold from Calador |
| Original title | One More Train to Rob |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1971 |
| length | 108 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Andrew V. McLaglen |
| script |
William Roberts Don Tait Dick Nelson |
| production | Robert Arthur |
| music | David Shire |
| camera | Alric Edens |
| cut | Robert L. Simpson |
| occupation | |
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Hot Gold from Calador (original title: One More Train to Rob ) is an American western written by Andrew V. McLaglen for the production company Universal from 1971 with George Peppard , Diana Muldaur and John Vernon in the lead roles. The film is based on a story by William Roberts .
action
Gentleman crook and philanderer Harker Fleet is planning a train robbery with his partner Timothy Xavier Nolan. The robbery goes according to plan, only Fleet did not expect Nolan's underhandedness. To take out Harker Fleet, Nolan started a rumor that Fleet had impregnated a girl. Soon the angry brothers of the girl put Fleet in the brothel and the sheriff appears on the scene. Faced with the choice of getting married or answering for a possible train robbery, Fleet chooses to flee. He rushes out of the hotel window with the sheriff, is able to ride away on a stolen horse for a short time, but is soon caught, shot and taken back to town. There he is forcibly married and given three years in jail for bodily harm because he has done badly to the sheriff and his people. In prison he learns that the girl is not pregnant at all and that Nolan just made up the fraud to get away with Fleet's girlfriend Katy and the money he stole.
After good guidance, Fleet is finally released from prison six months earlier and immediately goes to Calador, where Nolan Katy has meanwhile married and acquired a stately property. Timothy Xavier Nolan is now the most powerful man in town and bought the police there. When Fleet comes across a gold transport shortly before Calador, Nolan's town, which is being accompanied by Chinese from a nearby gold mine, he considers robbing the transport himself, but other bandits get ahead of him. The deputies who accompanied the transport join forces with the bandits. Two Chinese are killed in the attack. Fleet witnesses the attack, arrives at the transport when the bandits have to leave without having achieved anything, because the car has only loaded stones instead of gold. In anger, the bandits take the Chinese leader with them. Harker Fleet now allies itself with the Chinese, takes the two deputies prisoner and brings them to Calador, where they have to be locked up by the sheriff himself, since Fleet, as a white eyewitness, cannot simply be ignored.
When Fleet arrives at Nolan's estate, the greeting is mutually hypothermic politeness. You make a kind of armistice and watch the opponent's next move. When Fleet is alone in the room with Katy, he can beguile her again with his irresistible charm. When Fleet finally realizes that Nolan is holding the Chinese leader prisoner, he frees him and brings their boss back to the Chinese, but they are suspicious of Fleet's motives, as they suspect that he himself wants to get hold of the Chinese gold. Fleet and Nolan plan to get the gold into their own possession with the help of each other. Fleet fetches the young Chinese girl Ah Toy from the brothel to hand her over to the Chinese as a sign of goodwill, who finally let themselves be talked about and now entrust him with the gold.
Fleet is supposed to hand over the gold to Nolan in a car, but is ambushed by Nolan, which he in turn foresees and in turn sets a trap for the bandits. Some of Nolan's men are killed in the process. Nolan and his right hand drive the gold onto the property. Nolan and Katy now know that Fleet is still alive and Katy is sure of her old feelings for Fleet again. She separates from Nolan, who in turn now wants to transport the gold from Calador to San Francisco by train. Train robber Harker Fleet tries to get the gold with the help of the Chinese, he takes control of the train in front of the station. In Calador, Nolan and his gang are waiting for the train, there is a shooting, and most of the men are killed by Nolan. Nolan himself is fatally wounded by Harker Fleet's last bullet, who in turn, while dying, makes his old partner promise to save his indebted property with Katy and to settle down and work there as a rancher. Fleet cannot refuse the dying person his last will. When Nolan died, he outsmarted his former partner a second time.
Reviews
"An action-packed, largely enjoyable mixture of western, gangster film and comedy, in which the lack of logic and psychology is elegantly covered over by the director, but above all the mischievous humor of the main actor."
Production notes
The visual effects were created by Albert Whitlock , Bud Westmore was the makeup artist, Stanley Wilson was the musical director and Grady Hunt provided the costumes. The film was set in the Old Tucson Studios in Tucson , Arizona , USA.
literature
Web links
- Hot gold from Calador in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Hot gold from Calador in: Cinema
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hot gold from Calador. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .