Old Surehand 1st part
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Old Surehand 1st part |
| Original title | Old Surehand 1. Part / Old Surehand |
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| Country of production | Federal Republic of Germany , Yugoslavia |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1965 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Alfred Vohrer |
| script |
Fred Denger Eberhard Keindorff Johanna Sibelius Alfred Before that, with the dramaturgical collaboration of Manfred Barthel after a treatment by Edward Fuller from the Karl May film book by Michael Petzel |
| production |
Preben Philipsen (production) and Horst Wendlandt (overall management) for Rialto Film Preben Philipsen, Berlin Ivo Vrhoveć for Jadran-Film, Zagreb |
| music | Martin Böttcher |
| camera | Karl Loeb |
| cut | Hermann Haller |
| occupation | |
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Old Surehand Part 1 is a movie based on the motifs in Karl May's book from 1965. It was premiered on December 14, 1965 in the Mathäser -Filmpalast, Munich . The English actor Stewart Granger had his third and final appearance in a Karl May film with this film . The original novel fell by the wayside again in this film adaptation. Still, the film received positive reviews from the press.
action
A band of bandits led by the “general” robbed a train of Union Bank Railway Insurance (UBRI) Ltd. with wages. A short time later, some of the gang, on the run from Indians who shot the buffalo, kill the farmer's son Mac Hara, making it appear as if the Indians were to blame for his death.
Old Surehand had freed the passengers trapped by the bandits in the train just in time shortly before the train was blown up and is now continuing on their trail. On the way to Mason City, Surehand meets old gold digger Ben and takes him into town, where Ben meets his niece Judith and her fiancé Toby, who works as a lawyer for Judge Edwards. Judge Edwards informs Surehand that he still has no new information about the killer from his brother.
Tou-Wan, the son of the Comanche chief Maki-moteh, who wants to demand justice against the bandits' attacks in Mason City, is murdered by them in the middle of the city, as is the gold digger Ben, who is a little too ignorant of his gold discovery is is murdered. The general is behind the murders; by killing the buffalo and murdering the chief's son, he wants to incite the Indians to go into the field against the whites in order to be able to sell them weapons.
The Comanches actually dig up the hatchet to avenge the murder of their chief son, and kidnap Toby and Judith to let them die on the stake. With the promise to uncover the real murderers, Old Surehand succeeds in saving the two.
The bandits want to get rid of Old Surehands and instigate the girl Delia to stun Surehand and his companions with wine during an overnight stay in an old post office. Surehand sees through the plan and makes the waiting bandits harmless. Meanwhile, Toby has been captured by the general and locked in a stalactite cave. Winnetou can sneak into the cave unnoticed and cut Toby's bonds.
The general has equipped the Komantschen with defective cartridges, and they are ambushed to ambush an army group of Captain Miller. Old Surehand warns him in good time, however, and together with Winnetou, Surehand succeeds in convincing Maki-moteh of the general's wrong game. The Indians and soldiers stage a firefight, luring the bandits with it and defeating them together. When the general, who was also responsible for the murder of Surehand's brother, takes Old Wabble hostage while on the run, Surehand takes him down with an aimed shot.
Emergence
Immediately after the end of the filming of Winnetou 3rd part , the filming of Old Surehand 1st part began on August 23, 1965 , because this film should be in the cinemas for Christmas. Erwin Gitt took over the organization again . The team kept their rooms at Hotel Lev in Ljubljana . It started with recordings in the western town of Stozice, which, however , had shown the town of Clinton elsewhere in Winnetou Part 3 and was now called "Mason City".
Due to bad weather, the cave Županova Jama / Taborska Jama near Grosuplje was moved prematurely . There all the scenes took place in the labyrinth of death ruled by the general. Then the team moved to Rijeka to shoot some riding scenes in the Grobnik Polje plain.
The third location was Crvena Luka near Zadar . Here near Benkovac on the railway line leading to Zecevo, in a canyon only about a hundred meters long, the train attack occurred. The same locomotive was used as in Winnetou Part 1 . In order to enable the Yugoslav State Railways to pass through smoothly , the western train was parked on a specially built derivation. Sime Jagarinec, who had previously played the chief's son Tou-Wan and now played a bandit, suffered a threefold ankle fracture when jumping from the roof of a wagon, which is why his leg in a cast never came into the picture.
The architect Vladimir Tadej built the Mac-Hara farm near Bokanjak . The meeting between Winnetou and Old Surehand took place on the Zrmanja . Attentive cinema-goers recognized the location of the Apache pueblos of the Winnetou films. Several recordings were also made at Tulove Grede, the "Nugget Tsil" by Winnetou, part 1 . On October 3, 1965, a pick-up truck from the road construction department crashed into a bus occupied by Yugoslav extras , which fell into the ditch. There was one fatality and 15 injured in the team.
The fourth location was set up in Split in the Hotel Marijan. Tadej built the dilapidated post office near the Solin cement works . The nearby Jicarillo village from Winnetou 3rd part was converted into a Comanche camp. The Indian attack on Toby and Judith was filmed on the other side of Split in Radmanove mlinice near Omis . Shooting was finished on October 27, 1965.
The film was cut at the CCC , in whose studios the dubbing took place from November 22nd to 26th. The music recordings followed from November 30th to December 1st in the studios of Berliner Union-Film.
An English-language dubbed version of the film was released under the title "Flaming Frontier".
Remarks
Old Surehand is one of only three Karl May films of which View Master discs with three-dimensional images went on sale.
With the designation “1. Part “the film viewer should be able to hope that the second and third Old Surehand novels will also be released in the cinemas. However, because of the less good visit, nothing came of this. Old Surehand was the first Karl May film of the Rialto film that no longer received a gold screen for the most commercially successful film. But it still had a total of over 2.5 million visitors. The Winnetou fans were disappointed, as the character Winnetou was relatively little involved in the plot. That was all the more expected from the producer, who, according to the literary model , let the character die in the previous film ( Winnetou 3rd part ) despite massive protests from the audience . Karl May fans also criticized that the novel was completely neglected.
As Pierre Brice wrote in his autobiography, there was a constant quarrel with Stewart Granger during the shooting of the three films together. Granger, who at the time of shooting had already had a 30-year film career behind him, had great starry airs, insulted Brice as a bad actor, arbitrarily changed texts or rewrote entire scripts in order to be more in the center of attention himself.
German version
Due to the international cast, a German dubbing was necessary in the course of the film production .
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Old Surehand | Stewart Granger | Heinz Engelmann |
| Winnetou | Pierre Brice | Thomas Eckelmann |
| Toby | Mario Girotti (Terence Hill) | Joachim Ansorge |
| Judge Edwards | Wolfgang Lukschy | Wolfgang Lukschy |
| Judith | Letitia Roman | Marianne Lutz |
| "General" Jack O'Neil | Larry Pennell | Rainer Brandt |
| Old Wabble (Jeremy Sanders) | Milan Srdoč (Paddy Fox) | Hugo Schrader |
criticism
“OLD SUREHAND is more experienced and made funnier than most of the German 'westerns' before him. A few action scenes finally have momentum. The first Karl May Western that you don't have to be bored with. "
"Formally average Karl May Western without any special attractions."
“Another popular film adaptation of Karl May. Business: very good. "
"Solid technology such as color camera, editing and music help the Teutonic Western to succeed, the overall impression, if only because of the trodden ensemble, remains pale: Old Mayerei ."
“This is not a free adaptation of the Karl May novel, but a completely new story. [...] Stewart Granger turns Mayschen Old Surehand into a casual western man - if you as a viewer forgets that this is supposed to be a Karl May film, his acting is worth seeing. "
“Very free film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Karl May, not very dense and hardly exciting. The western is entertaining not least because of the self-deprecating casualness with which Stewart Granger plays the leading role. "
literature
- Book: Karl May: Gesammelte Werke , Volume 14, Old Surehand , Karl-May-Verlag, Bamberg 1951, ISBN 3-7802-0014-7 or Tosa-Verlag, ISBN 3-85001-120-8 ( OCLC 632148162 ).
- Michael Petzel: Karl May Filmbuch , 2nd, extended edition, Karl-May-Verlag, Bamberg 1999, ISBN 3-7802-0153-4 .
Web links
- Old Surehand first part in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Old Surehand 1. Part at Filmportal.de
- Sound carrier with the film music
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thomas Bräutigam: Lexicon of film and television synchronization. More than 2000 films and series with their German voice actors etc. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-289-X , p. 280
- ↑ Old Surehand 1st part. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .