With a fist as hard as steel
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German title | With a fist as hard as steel |
Original title | Man Without a Star |
Country of production | United States |
original language | English |
Publishing year | 1955 |
length | 89 minutes |
Age rating | FSK 16 |
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Director | King Vidor |
script | Borden Chase , DD Beauchamp |
production | Aaron Rosenberg |
music | Joseph Gershenson , Arnold Hughes, Frederick Herbert |
camera | Russell Metty |
cut | Virgil W. Vogel |
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With a Fist as Hard as a Steel is an American film from 1955. The film directed by King Vidor with Kirk Douglas in the lead role is about deadly conflicts over grasslands. It is based on the novel Man without a Star by Dee Linford.
action
Cowboy Dempsey Rae and inexperienced young Jeff Jimson are hired by manager Strap Davis on Triangle Farm. The owner of the farm is the beautiful and ambitious rancher Reed Bowman, who wants to claim the open pastureland of the area for herself. The other cattle farmers and farmers react to this by demarcating them with barbed wire. Dempsey sees himself as a fighter against injustice forced to switch sides. The conflict over pastureland escalates. Dempsey saves the pasturage of the herders and moves on searching without a clear path.
Reviews
“Although he loves his independence more than anything, a cowboy finally decides to work as a caretaker on a small ranch whose pastures are threatened by a large landowner. His fight is successful, but as a price it demands the insight that fences and borders are "pushing back the vast country more and more. Exciting, well-played Western."
Film music
The leitmotif of the film is sung by Frankie Laine :
Who knows who knows
Who knows which way is the right way goes
The night is dark and the way is far
for a man without a star.
Who knows who knows
who knows which way is the right one
The night is dark and the way is long
For a man without a star.
Web links
- With steely fist in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Turner Classic Movies TCM Movie Database
- AllMovie - Movies and Films Database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for With a steel-hard fist . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2011 (PDF; test number: 97 47V V).
- ↑ With a fist as hard as steel. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed September 22, 2018 .