Bounty: One dollar

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Movie
German title Bounty: One dollar
Original title Navajo Joe
Country of production Italy , Spain
original language Italian
Publishing year 1966
length 91 minutes
Age rating FSK 18
Rod
Director Sergio Corbucci
script Fernando Di Leo ,
Piero Regnoli
production Dino De Laurentiis
music Ennio Morricone as "Leo Nichols"
camera Silvano Ippoliti
cut Alberto Gallitti
occupation

Bounty: One Dollar (original title: Navajo Joe ) is a spaghetti western by Sergio Corbucci from 1966. The Spanish-Italian co-production is one of the rare cases in which an Indian is the focus of the plot.

action

The bandit Duncan and his gang raid an Indian village and murder its residents. The sole survivor, Navajo Joe, swears revenge and pursues the killers. When part of the Duncan gang ambushes a train carrying a large shipment of money, Joe shoots the outlaws and brings the train safely to the town of Esperanza. When Duncan learns of this, he prepares to attack the city. Joe offers to organize the defense of Esperanza; to fight the gang, he charges every family living there a dollar for each bandit killed. However, the gangsters manage to kidnap young Estella. While trying to free her, Navajo Joe is captured and tortured. Still, he doesn't tell Duncan where the money is hidden. Shortly afterwards, he is freed by a brave city dweller.

Duncan threatens to murder everyone in town when he learns that the loot is still on the train. Meanwhile, Joe has attached dynamite loads to the train. When a majority of the bandits attack the train, he blows it up. Joe lures Duncan and the rest of his remaining men away from town. In the devastated Indian village where it all began, there is a showdown: Joe kills Duncan with a tomahawk before succumbing to his injuries sustained in battle.

criticism

“With Navajo Joe, Sergio Corbucci shot one of the few spaghetti westerns in 1966 in which Indians played an essential role [...] Here, too, the hero in a city of cowards is abandoned by everyone. The only ones he can count on are loners like himself. From the beginning to the end of the film, Corbucci puts an air of mystery on his avenger, which is only shown in close-up action scenes and otherwise always taken from a distance by the camera will [...] Despite Burt Reynolds' disdain for this early film, this remains one of his best roles along with Deliverance ( everyone is first to die ) . "

- Ulrich P. Bruckner: For a few more corpses. Munich 2006, pp. 69/70.

“Again a European western of the hard wave , which has one of its climaxes […] Sergio Corbucci staged this massacre in a completely unreal way so that it could be endured at all. It's like in the comic strips: the bad guys are terribly bad, the good guys are exceptionally good, and the girls are unusually appetizing. In the end, of course, the noble one has to be sacrificed because this is how melancholy begins. There are no real people who are being presented here, just a kind of robber pistol, in which exaggeration is a rhetorical device. "

- Klaus U. Reinke in: Filmecho / Filmwoche , issue 38, 1967.

“The Navajo Indian Joe […] shoots, dynamizes and strangles all of his enemies. Bounty: One dollar is particularly interesting as a preliminary study for Sergio Corbucci's main works Mercenario and Leichen pave his way . "

- Joe Hembus: Das Western-Lexikon, Munich 1995, p. 362.

“Since the outwardly glamorous staging is only tailored to the effect, the interesting starting points of the script remain irrelevant. Because of the strong atrocities, only wearable for adults. "

- Evangelical film observer , Evangelical Press Association Munich, review No. 238/1967.

background

Corbuccis and De Laurentiis' dream cast for the role of Navajo Joe was Marlon Brando , who canceled. Officially because of other obligations; It is assumed, however, that Brando, who was already in great demand at the time, did not like the role or the only moderate fee compared to Hollywood productions. For Burt Reynolds it was the first major lead role.

In Germany, the film was also released under the original title Navajo Joe , such as the DVD edition from Koch Media . Other titles used in Germany: Blood stuck to his boots , Navajo's Land and Red Fighter . It was first shown in German cinemas on April 27, 1967.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry in the Archivio del Cinema Italiano
  2. ↑ Certificate of Release for Bounty: One Dollar . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , October 2008 (PDF; test number: 36 787 DVD).
  3. http://www.filmtipps.at/films/najo.php
  4. http://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/Navajo_Joe
  5. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061587/releaseinfo