The man with the bullet whip
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The man with the bullet whip |
| Original title | The mio nome è Shanghai Joe |
| Country of production | Italy |
| original language | Italian |
| Publishing year | 1973 |
| length | 100 (German v. 95) minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Mario Caiano |
| script |
Fabrizio Trifone Trecca (as TF Carter ) Mario Caiano |
| production |
Renato Angiolini Roberto Bessi |
| music | Bruno Nicolai |
| camera | Guglielmo Mancori |
| cut | Amedeo Giomini |
| occupation | |
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My Name Is Shanghai Joe (original title: Il mio nome è Shanghai Joe ) is a spaghetti western with elements of Eastern genre, the Mario Caiano staged 1,973th The German-language premiere took place in abbreviated form on January 11, 1974. Alternative titles are Karate Jack , My name is Karate-Jack and Shanghai Joe, the man with the bullet whip . A DVD release was titled Bone Breakers in the Wild West .
action
Shanghai Joe, a Chinese well versed in Far Eastern martial arts, arrives in San Francisco in 1882 and is looking for a job. He confidently applies for a job on a ranch; the workers already employed there let the skinny, apparently weak Joe feel their racism and arrogance while they try to put him in his place. With his karate skills, however, he defeats all opponents and is hired by Kay, the foreman of the rich Spencer, as a cowboy who is to accompany the cattle trek to Mexico. On the journey, Joe soon discovers that the actual goods on the trek are Mexican workers who are supposed to be smuggled across the border. When the sheriff and his people stop the trek, Kay and his people are able to kill the peons and flee.
Spencer now lets Joe, who helped an injured worker escape and protested against the procedure, are now looking for and hounding contract killers of various preferences - u. a. Pedro, the cannibal, Jack, who scalps his victims and the gravedigger Sam - on Joe, whose attacks all fail. After all, the toughest opponent awaits with the Japanese Mikuja, who is also trained by Master Yang (like Joe); but here too Joe wins.
criticism
The lexicon of the international film judged: "Exciting, tough action film, whose few socially critical approaches get lost in the overloaded story." Christian Keßler strongly criticizes, but first of all, the German version for its cuts and the synchronization, which coarsen the already existing humor with clumsy puns and pour the zot sauce over it. He emphasizes that the film is (in the original) extremely brutal, but remains "tolerable due to its bright mood, which is mainly due to the comic strip characterization". The Italian critics found the mixture of westerns and martial arts films to be a success, but criticized the hero's loyalty and moral righteousness being thwarted by the spectacularly violent murders and sadistic scenes.
On August 2, 2013, the film was shown as part of the Tele-5 series The Worst Films of All Time .
Remarks
The film's soundtrack was initially released in Japan on LP (TAM XY 8018).
Two through thick and thin from 1974, issued as a sequel, has little more in common with this film than the name of the main character.
Web links
- My Name Is Shanghai Joe in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The film at comingsoon
Individual evidence
- ↑ The man with the bullet whip. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Christian Keßler : Welcome to Hell . 2002, p. 149
- ↑ Segnalazioni Cinematografiche, Vol. 76, 1974.
- ^ Roberto Chiti, Roberto Poppi, Mario Pecorari: Dizionario del cinema italiano, I film vol. 4. Dal 1970 al 1979. Tomo 2, MZ Rom 1996, pp. 52/53
- ↑ The LP with a track list