Naked violence
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Naked violence |
| Original title | The Naked Spur |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1953 |
| length | 91 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Anthony Mann |
| script |
Sam Rolfe Harold Jack Bloom |
| production | William H. Wright |
| music | Bronislau caper |
| camera | William C. Mellor |
| cut | George White |
| occupation | |
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Naked violence is an American western by director Anthony Mann from 1953. The title in the GDR was Blanke Sporen .
action
Former farmer Howard Kemp goes on the hunt for the fugitive murderer Ben Vandergroat, who has a $ 5,000 reward on his head. With this money Howard wants to buy back a ranch that he once lost to his unfaithful fiancée. In the mountains of Colorado , he met an old gold mining Jesse Tate and dishonorably dismissed Unions - Officer Roy Anderson, who join him.
Together they manage to capture Ben Vandergroat and his companion Lina. On the long way back, the cunning Ben manages to play the three bounty hunters against each other and sow discord. When Howard is injured in an Indian attack and has to be looked after by Lina, Lina falls in love with him. Although she helps Ben to escape, when he kills old Jesse in cold blood, she turns away from him for good.
Howard and Roy manage to shoot Ben; However, his corpse falls into a raging river. Roy dies while trying to rescue him. At Lina's request, Howard agrees to forego the bounty because her love is more important to him.
background
The film was shot in Durango , Lone Pine and the Rocky Mountains . It premiered in the United States in February 1953 and was released in West German cinemas on December 8, 1953.
Naked violence is the third of a total of five westerns that Anthony Mann directed with James Stewart. The others are Winchester '73 (1950), Mutiny on the Serpent River (1952), Over the Death Pass (1954), and The Man from Laramie (1955).
Awards
- Sam Rolfe and Harold Jack Bloom received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay in 1954 .
- In 1997 the film was entered into the National Film Registry .
criticism
- Lexicon of international films : “ A very tough Western for the time, which, thanks to its consistent and psychologically credible plot and brilliant actors, is one of the above-average films of the genre. "
- The American film critic Leonard Maltin described nude violence as one of the best westerns of all time.
- " ... as far as the characterization of his heroes is concerned, certainly one of the most important westerns after the war ". ( Thomas Jeier )
Web links
- Brute force in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Naked violence. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Thomas Jeier: The Western Film. - Orig. - Munich: Heyne, 1987 (Heyne Filmbibliothek; 32/102) - ISBN 3-453-86104-3 , p. 101