run for your life

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Movie
German title run for your life
Original title Corri uomo corri
Country of production Italy , France
original language Italian
Publishing year 1968
length 120 (German version 101) minutes
Age rating FSK 12 (formerly 18)
Rod
Director Sergio Sollima
script Sergio Sollima
Pompeo De Angelis
production Anna Maria Chretien
Alvaro Mancori
Aldo Pomilia
music Bruno Nicolai
camera Guglielmo Mancori
cut Tatiana Casini Morigi
occupation

Run for your life (Original title: Corri uomo corri ) is a spaghetti westerns directed by Sergio Sollima from the year 1968 . The main roles were played by Tomás Milián and Donald O'Brien . It stands out from other films of the genre in particular through its political component, which can also be seen in the other two western Sollimas, The Haunted of the Sierra Madre and Face to Face .

The film is a sequel to Sollima's first western The Haunted Sierra Madre . In this too, the small crook Cuchillo was played by Tomás Milián.

action

The thief and excellent knife thrower Cuchillo ends up in prison in Mexico and meets the poet Ramirez there. The latter asks Cuchillo to help him break out and bring him to Texas . He promises him a hundred dollars for this, although he was pardoned by Porfirio Díaz and is due to be released the next day. It turns out that Ramirez has brought $ 3 million worth of gold owned by the Benito Juarez government overseas, so there are a few people on his tail, including two French bounty hunters in the service of President Díaz, the bandit Riza and Nathaniel Cassidy, a former sheriff who used to fight for the revolution but is now only interested in his own gain. In addition, Cuchillo's hot-headed fiancée Dolores also follows the two fugitives. She's upset because Cuchillo, who recently returned to town, is leaving her again.

Ramirez is fatally wounded in a shootout with Riza and his people. Before he dies, he gives Cuchillo a clipping from an old newspaper that he printed in exile in Texas and tells him to bring it to Burton City to get the gold that he is supposed to use for the Mexican people . While the pursuers fight each other, Cuchillo escapes.

He meets a young woman named Penny Bannington who is a member of the Salvation Army and how his goal is Burton City. He joins her as her new assistant. To look for water, he separates from her briefly and is captured, interrogated and tortured by Jean-Paul and Michel, the two French. Finally, Cassidy shows up, which Cuchillo tries to use to escape. He is then captured by Cassidy. Penny shows up too. Cassidy's naivete gets hold of the newspaper clipping, and from him she learns about the gold hidden in Burton City.

Then Dolores appears, who has since been bribed by the French. She asks Cuchillo about the gold and, after receiving all the information, runs away that night.

In the next town, Cuchillo is arrested again, but is freed by rebels who take him to their leader, General Santillana. This is an old friend of Ramirez and also interested in the gold. He asks Cuchillo to hand over the gold to him and gives him one of his men to accompany him, who is soon killed by Riza's bandits.

Arriving in Burton City, both Cassidy and Cuchillo are arrested. It is a precautionary measure because Penny's father, the mayor, learned about the gold from her. Riza's people try to kidnap Cuchillo from prison, which, thanks to the help of Cassidy, fails. The bandits then ask the townspeople to leave the town. Penny, who wants the gold for herself, offers Cuchillo to save him. However, he refuses because he and Cassidy have now made a plan. They load the gold onto a cart leaving Burton City for Mexico and, as the bandits requested, stay back in the city. The bandits have now captured Dolores. A shooting breaks out in town, after which Cuchillo escapes with Dolores.

In the meantime, the French took possession of the gold. They meet Cuchillo and try to kill him. That fails, however, because Cassidy suddenly appears. Riza's bandits also appear. While they chase Cassidy and Cuchillo, Dolores is able to drive to Mexico.

reception

Run for your life was mostly well received by the critics . The lexicon of international film, for example, speaks of an above-average spaghetti western. The critic Doug Pratt , who writes for Rolling Stone magazine, among others , describes the film as a good example of an entertaining spaghetti western. Cinema magazine praised the film for being excellently staged. In particular, the film's humor and the uneducated but rascal protagonist Cuchillo are highlighted in the reviews. Even the Protestant film observer is not stingy with praise: “The colored widescreen western cleverly transforms the classic clichés of good heroes and bad bandits and sometimes offers a successful parody. Exciting entertainment. Not suitable for young people because of the uncritically presented mass battle scenes. "

Remarks

The song "Espanto en el corazon" heard in the film is sung by Peter Boom . Main actor Milián sings the title song himself.

The filming locations were the area around Almería and El Argamazon .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ofdb.de March 25, 2009: Run for your life , accessed on September 7, 2012
  2. ^ Christopher Frayling: Spaghetti westerns: Cowboys and Europeans from Karl May to Sergio Leone . IBTauris, London 2006
  3. ↑ Run for your life. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  4. ↑ Douglas Pratt: Doug Pratt's DVD: Movies, Television, Music, Art, Adult, and More! Volume 2: L – Z. UNET 2 Corporation, New York 2005
  5. ↑ Run for your life on the Cinema website
  6. ^ John Wallis: The Spaghetti Western Collection . Review on dvdtalk.com
  7. ↑ Evangelical Press Association Munich, Review No. 417/1969
  8. ↑ Ulrich P. Bruckner: For a few more corpses. Munich 2006, p. 576