Junior Bonner
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Junior Bonner |
| Original title | Junior Bonner |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1971 |
| length | 100 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Sam Peckinpah |
| script | Jeb Rosebrook |
| production | Joe Wizan |
| music | Jerry Fielding |
| camera | Lucien Ballard |
| cut | Robert L. Wolfe |
| occupation | |
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Junior Bonner is an American drama with western elements directed by Sam Peckinpah from 1971.
action
Junior Bonner is a rodeo rider who has had his heyday. His last appearance on a stubborn bull resulted in several injuries. Bonner goes home to Arizona to take part in the parade and rodeo for the American Independence Day.
When he got home, he saw that his parents' house had been leveled. This was caused by his younger brother Curly, a property speculator who wants to build new houses on this site. His father Ace, a good-for-nothing and womanizer, and his down-to-earth and ailing mother Elvira have become estranged.
Ace's wish is to emigrate to Australia to work as a sheep shearer or in a gold mine. He's trying to borrow Junior's money. Junior bribes rodeo manager Buck Roan so that he can ride the bull "Sunshine" again. For this Buck should receive half of the prize money. Junior manages to hold out the required eight seconds on the bull. He goes to a travel agency and buys his father a first class one-way ticket to Australia.
background
The film was shot in the US state of Arizona . Ida Lupino worked for the comedy series Mr. Adams and Eve in 1957 and saw Peckinpah who lived in a shack behind her property. She got him work as a screenwriter for the series. The role of mother is Peckinpah's thanks to Lupino.
Reviews
Critics disagreed on this film. For the film-dienst it was "[e] in a psychologically well-defined, culturally pessimistic, staging somewhat dry film full of sadness and melancholy". The conclusion of Cinema was simply: "Melancholic-pessimistic work by Sam Peckinpah."
Nicolai Bühnemann from filmzentrale.com primarily criticized the predictability of the “Rodeo film”. But he also credits him with relativizing black and white painting. With this, director Peckinpah “saved his film from the ever-present danger of drowning in cowboy nostalgia and wild west romance”. The production is therefore "not pure escapism, like the lifestyle of its main characters, but a serious preoccupation with interpersonal conflicts in situations of upheaval and the question of human identity in the consumer society that absorbs, digestes and (filtered) exits again".
Web links
- Junior Bonner in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Junior Bonner at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Junior Bonn. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ See cinema.de
- ↑ See filmzentrale.com