A man loves dangerous
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | A man loves dangerous |
| Original title | Many rivers to cross |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1955 |
| length | 94 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Roy Rowland |
| script |
Harry Brown , Guy Trosper |
| production | Jack Cummings |
| music | Cyril J. Mockridge |
| camera | John F. Seitz |
| cut | Ben Lewis |
| occupation | |
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A man loves dangerous (Original title: Many Rivers to Cross ) is an American western comedy with Robert Taylor and Eleanor Parker from 1955.
action
At the end of the 18th century, trapper Bushrod "buffalo skin" gentry was attacked by Shawnee Indians while hunting in Kentucky . A woman named Mary Stuart Cherne saves his life and takes him home to her parents and four brothers to treat his wounds. When she lures him into a small cave at night and tells him that she wants to marry him, the die-hard bachelor decides to sneak away at dawn. Bushrod does not get far, however. Mary, who was chasing him, brings him back at gunpoint and locks him in a shed.
Mary tells her suitor, the sturdy Luke Radford, that Bushrod has insulted her, whereupon Luke calls on his rival to fight. In front of Mary and the cheering residents of the settlement, Luke and Bushrod engage in a bitter fistfight. Although Bushrod emerges victorious, Mary's father Cadmus would rather Luke as his future son-in-law. Mary is now brooding over how she should manage to marry Bushrod after all. When Preacher Ellis was in town the next day to perform a series of weddings, Bushrod tried again to flee into the wilderness. However, he is stopped by Mary's brothers and, due to false information from Mary, accused by father Cadmus of seducing Mary in the cave. In spite of his pledges of innocence, Bushrod is finally forced to say yes to Mary.
After the ceremony, Bushrod manages to go his way again. However, Mary hangs on his heels and frees him from prison after he punched an innkeeper and justice of the peace in a dispute over an unordered meal and was supposed to serve a sentence of several days. On the way, Mary tries to get her disgruntled husband to do his conjugal duty on a blanket. But Bushord rejects them again. Shortly afterwards they meet a group of men who want to attack the Shawnee Indians. Bushrod joins them and has two men take Mary home. However, Mary is able to escape her escort and immediately starts looking for her husband. When she finds him in an inn where he has just befriended a man named Hamilton, she angrily explains to him that she wants to end the marriage and return to Luke.
After Bushrod has made sure that Hamilton's daughter, who has a severe fever, is on the mend, he realizes that Mary means more to him than he actually thought. When he hears that the Shawnee Indians are on their way to Mary's hometown, he rushes through the woods and at the last moment can save Mary from being scalped by an Indian. After they have defeated the rest of the Shawnee together, Bushrod prepares to leave Mary again. When she runs after him, as always, Bushrod finally gives up his resistance and takes her in his arms.
background
Originally Louis Calhern provided for the lead role, which ultimately was Robert Taylor, Eleanor Parker already the two films with screen partner before the final decision (1952) and The Valley of the Kings had turned (1954). The shooting of A Man Loves Dangerously took place from late May to mid-July 1954. The exterior shots of the MGM production were made in Cloverdale , California , along the Russian River , among others . Cedric Gibbons and Hans Peters were appointed as film architects . F. Keogh Gleason and Edwin B. Willis provided the equipment . Walter Plunkett designed the costumes .
A Man Loves Dangerously premiered in the United States on February 4, 1955 , where some critics made comparisons with MGM's previously released comedy film A Bride for Seven Brothers (1954). On December 9, 1955, A Man Loves Dangerously came into German cinemas. In 2008 the film was released on DVD.
Reviews
For the lexicon of international films , A Man Loves Dangerously was "[o] riginal western entertainment with a strong parodic influence". According to Cinema , the humor shown in the film is “completely out of date”. The conclusion was: "Leather jokes from the trapper and his wife."
The film critic Leonard Maltin described the film in retrospect as a "rough, lively borderland comedy" in which Eleanor Parker showed "more drive and verve than Robert Taylor".
German version
The German dubbed version was created in 1955 in MGM's dubbing studio in Berlin .
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Bushrod gentry | Robert Taylor | Carl Raddatz |
| Mary Stuart Cherne | Eleanor Parker | Edith Schneider |
| Cadmus Cherne | Victor McLaglen | Walther Suessenguth |
| Fremont | Jeff Richards | Herbert Stass |
| Shields | Russ Tamblyn | Klaus Schwarzkopf |
| Luke Radford | Alan Hale Jr. | Max Eckard |
| Lige Blake | Rhys Williams | Hans Hessling |
| Banks | Russell Johnson | Horst Niendorf |
| Sandak | Ralph Moody | Otto Stoeckel |
| Preacher Ellis | Richard Garrick | Alfred Balthoff |
Web links
- A man loves dangerous in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- A man loves dangerous at Turner Classic Movies (English)
- Pictures of the film on cinema.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b cf. Notes on tcm.com
- ↑ A man loves dangerously. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed October 27, 2019 .
- ↑ cf. cinema.de
- ↑ “Parker shows more vim and vigor than Taylor […]. Raucous, energetic frontier comedy. " Leonard Maltin : Leonard Maltin's 2005 Movie & Video Guide . Plume, 2004, p. 889.
- ↑ cf. synchrondatenbank.de