Minnesota Clay
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Minnesota Clay |
| Original title | Minnesota Clay |
| Country of production | Italy , Spain , France |
| original language | Italian |
| Publishing year | 1964 |
| length | 91 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Sergio Corbucci |
| script |
Adriano Bolzoni Sergio Corbucci |
| music | Piero Piccioni |
| camera |
José Fernández Aguayo Mario Bava |
| cut | Franco Fraticelli |
| occupation | |
| |
Minnesota Clay is an early Spaghetti Western by Sergio Corbucci from 1964.
action
The aging and half-blind gunslinger Minnesota Clay escapes from a prison camp where he was unjustly imprisoned. In search of the person who innocently put him behind bars, Clay finds himself between the lines of two criminal gangs fighting for supremacy in Clay's hometown of Mesa Encantada, New Mexico: one is led by the corrupt Sheriff Fox, the other persists from Mexicans under the leadership of Ortiz. With the help of Ortiz's lover Estella and his old buddy Jonathan, Clay manages to play the gangs off against each other. Despite his handicap, he was able to prevail and defeat Fox in the final duel.
background
After Not a cent for Ringo's head was Minnesota Clay Corbucci second Western. It already contains unmistakable, later genre-typical motifs of the spaghetti westerns. The character Minnesota Clay is in many ways reminiscent of the protagonists in Corbucci's later genre classics Django and Leichen pave his way . The plot of the film has also very similar to that in the almost simultaneously produced for a handful of dollars of Sergio Leone , but he was not nearly as successful.
There are two endings to the film. In one, Clay dies in the arms of his daughter; in the alternative, he rides off wearing glasses, which he soon throws into the air and whose glasses he shoots with a smile.
Reviews
"An action-packed spaghetti western, with director Corbucci, who came from antique film, made his debut in the genre."
Joe Hembus compares it to For a Fistful of Dollars, which was written in the same year : “In contrast to Leone's dollar hero, Minnesota Clay is a defeatable hero, broken from the start. [...] Corbucci immediately propagated the self-confidence of the Spaghetti Western. "
Ulrich P. Bruckner, however, saw the film "still influenced by the US westerns"
synchronization
Fernando Sancho is voiced by Herbert Weicker in the German version .
Web links
- Minnesota Clay in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Minnesota Clay. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ in: The Western Lexicon . Munich 1995, p. 438
- ↑ in: For a few more corpses . Munich 2006, p. 615