In a saddle with death

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Movie
German title In a saddle with death
Original title Hannie Caulder
Country of production Great Britain
original language English
Publishing year 1971
length 85 minutes
Age rating FSK 18
Rod
Director Burt Kennedy
script Peter Cooper
Burt Kennedy
(as ZX Jones )
production Patrick Curtis
music Ken Thorne
camera Edward Scaife
cut Jim Connock
occupation

In a saddle with death (original title: Hannie Caulder ) is a British Euro Western from 1971.

action

After an unsuccessful attack on a Mexican bank, the three constantly arguing brothers Emmett, Frank and Rufus Clemens arrive at a horse-changing station in front of the Mexican federales who are chasing them. The station guard Jim Caulder, who wants to find out what the three men want, is shot dead in an ambush by trigger-happy Rufus for no reason. Before they ride on, the three rape Jim's pretty young wife Hannie and set the station on fire.

Some time later, the bounty hunter Thomas Luther Price turns up there , who wants to get fresh water here. Hannie knocks him down to run away with his guns and horses, but gives up when she realizes Price is a bonus hunter. After much back and forth and after learning what happened to her, Price finally agrees to teach Hannie how to use a weapon so she can take revenge on her tormentors. Nevertheless, he continues to try to dissuade Hannie from her plan of revenge.

Price and Hannie now go to the Bailey estate, a gunsmith who lives somewhere on the Mexican coast with his large family. The time during which Bailey is making a handgun for Hannie is used for intensive shooting training under the expert guidance of Price. When Mexican bandits appear on Bailey's property and there is a shooting, Hannie shoots a person for the first time and learns that killing a person is not as easy as she initially thought.

In search of the Clemens brothers, who have committed a few more unsuccessful attacks in the meantime, Hannie and Price go back to the United States and settle in a small town. On the same day, the trio of brothers turns up there. When Price tries to earn the head bonus for Frank Clemens, an incident occurs with his brothers who are coming from the neighboring saloon . Price is fatally wounded by a throwing knife that Emmett hurls at him.

Now Hannie takes merciless revenge on the brothers, who are still quietly in town. First she introduces Frank Clemens, who is in the saloon with a prostitute. As in Mexico, she again hesitates to fire the fatal shot at Frank Clemens, who has already been hit, which gives him the opportunity to injure Hannie with a graze on the shoulder before he dies.

After Frank's death, it is now Hannie who is wanted by the two Clemens brothers who are still alive. When buying perfume she is surprised by Rufus, who, like his brother, pays with his life for underestimating his opponent. The showdown with Emmett then takes place in the old prison outside the city. A mysterious, black-clad stranger, who had already cast a covetous eye on Hannie at Bailey's estate, ensures balancing justice by saving her life and thus forcing a fair duel between her and Emmett. After Hannie has decided this for herself, she rides away in the film's final sequence, accompanied by the stranger dressed in black.

criticism

“The production by Tigon British Film Productions , which has made a name for itself in the horror and exploitation sector with films like The Witches Hunter , brings together a select cast of actors for a… Western in the dirty Italo style. (...) The staging of In a Saddle with Death comes across as jagged and entertaining, delights the genre fan with rustic, no-frills shootouts and doesn't leave the humor out either. But this one seems ... a little out of place (sic!), Because the film is actually very serious and sometimes brutal. The whole film was shot in Almería, Spain ... "

"The film is mainly about Raquel Welch's poncho (when it comes to pulling, she always has to turn it up first), about her physicality (" She'd give something about being a man. "-" She never will create. ") and about the victory of emancipation."

- Joe Hembus : Das Western-Lexikon, Munich 1995, p. 331.

Remarks

The song Life's never peaceful is sung by Bobby Hanna like the theme song.

The Spanish guitarist Paco de Lucía can be seen in a cameo in the film .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.dvd-palace.de , accessed on January 7, 2010.