High Noon in Hadley City
High Noon in Hadley City (original title: Les Dalton à la noce , literally: The Daltons at the wedding ) is a comic book from the Lucky Luke series . The volume, which first appeared in 1993, was drawn by Morris and written by Xavier Fauche and Jean Léturgie . The translation is by Michael Richter.
The band pays homage to and a parody of the film Twelve Noon from 1952, the original title of which is High Noon .
action
The Daltons reached the news in prison that Samuel Parker, the Sheriff who has indented they will marry soon. They break out and make their way there.
Meanwhile, Lucky Luke arrives in Hadley City, where the wedding is to take place, to attend his friend Samuel's wedding party. The celebration starts a bit uptight, because it was organized by the gravedigger and therefore the church is decorated like at a funeral. When the news arrives shortly before the actual ceremony begins that the Daltons have broken out, Parker breaks off the wedding to take care of the gangsters. His friends strongly advise against a confrontation because he is no longer the youngest. Instead of supporting him, however, all except Luke run away.
Because Parker thinks he has to take care of the Daltons himself, he even swaps Luke's revolver for a dummy and refuses any help. Meanwhile, his future in-laws in particular are quite upset and oppose the wedding. They want to leave with the bride when the twelve o'clock train, with which the Daltons are expected, arrives. The last minutes before the train arrives pass in tense calm, only the gravedigger is still finishing Parker's coffin.
When the train arrives, Parker rans through it first without hitting anything. The Daltons aren't even sitting on the train, but suddenly appear in Parker's back and want to hang him. Lucky Luke is there, but his revolver is just a toy, so he has to flee at the last moment. At the last moment, Jolly Jumper can prevent Parker from being killed on the gallows. While the Daltons take the in-laws hostage in the saloon, Samuel Luke supposedly returns his revolver, but loaded with blank cartridges.
Luke and Parker go into the saloon, and Luke tries to disarm the Daltons with one of his artificial shots. This is not possible with blank cartridges, so that Joe Dalton finally gets the long-awaited opportunity to shoot Luke. Luke only asks Joe to be shot with his own gun. One shot - and Luke falls over like a board.
Only when the grave digger wants to bury him in front of the city does he get out of the coffin again, to the great surprise of Jolly Jumper. Luke disguises himself as a gravedigger and wants to save Parker from hanging again. He manages to sabotage the execution and overpower the Daltons with a one-shot derringer .
Samuel Parker finally marries and moves out of Hadley City. He demonstratively throws the sheriff's star at the mayor's feet. The daltons will be dented again. And Luke rides into the sunset.
success
As early as 1993, 416,000 copies of the tape were sold in France alone.
literature
- Morris, Fauche and Léturgie: High Noon in Hadley City , Egmont Ehapa Verlag , Berlin 2009.
Web links
- Title information about the album (French)