Four queens poker

Movie
German title	Four queens poker
Original title	The King and Four Queens
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	1956
length	86 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16
Rod
Director	Raoul Walsh
script	Margaret Fitts ; Richard Alan Simmons
production	Raoul Walsh / Warner Brothers
music	Alex North
camera	Lucien Ballard
cut	David Bretherton ; Louis R. Loeffler
occupation
	Clark Gable : The Kehoe; Eleanor Parker : Sabina McDade; Jean Willes : Ruby McDade; Barbara Nichols : Birdie McDade; Sara Shane : Oralie McDade; Jo Van Fleet : Ma McDade; Roy Roberts : Sheriff Tom Larrabee; Arthur Shields : Padre; Jay C. Flippen : Bartender;

Poker with four ladies (original title: The King and Four Queens , alternative title: Hot South ) is a western from 1956 by Raoul Walsh . The script is based on a story by Margaret Fitts .

action

The crook Dan Kehoe learns of a secret gold pot. It's buried on old Ma McDade's run-down farm. Only she knows the hiding place and guards the treasure for her last son. But Ma McDade doesn't live alone, she lives with her four widowed daughters-in-law. The shrewd Dan Kehoe throws himself up to the four young women to get to the treasure. These fall for the charming swindler. But Ma McDade sees through him and it comes to the wild western finale.

background

While editing, the director tried to downsize the role of Ma MacDade compared to that of his star Clark Gable, until he surrendered when he realized: “But this woman, Jo Van Fleet, is really a creepy actress. We finally understood that this is your film. "

criticism

“In the staging and portrayal of average westerns with bitterly evil humor that pokes fun at both itself and the genre, but has too much reality to be considered a comedy. The frivolity of the game is also unusual for the time it was made. "

- Lexicon of international film

"As in Raoul Walsh's other two Clark Gable westerns, Three Rivals and Weeping for the Damned , the question here is what role women's possessions play in the pursuit of other possessions, but in this entertaining pasha - Western, the difficult problem is resolved in an ironic comedy tone. "

- Joe Hembus : Western Lexicon, 1976

literature

Joe Hembus : The Western Lexicon. 1567 films from 1894 to the present day . [Extended new edition by Benjamin Hembus .] (= Heyne Film Library . No. 32/207). Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 1995 [first edition 1976], ISBN 3-453-08121-8 , p. 303.

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Interview in Cahiers du cinéma . Quoted here from the German translation of a longer passage in: Joe Hembus: Das Western-Lexikon. 1567 films from 1894 to the present day . [Extended new edition by Benjamin Hembus.] Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 1995 [first edition 1976], ISBN 3-453-08121-8 , p. 303.
↑ Poker with four queens. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed February 21, 2017 .
^ Joe Hembus: The Western Lexicon. 1567 films from 1894 to the present day . [Extended new edition by Benjamin Hembus.] Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 1995 [first edition 1976], ISBN 3-453-08121-8 , p. 303.

[1] Interview in Cahiers du cinéma . Quoted here from the German translation of a longer passage in: Joe Hembus: Das Western-Lexikon. 1567 films from 1894 to the present day . [Extended new edition by Benjamin Hembus.] Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 1995 [first edition 1976], ISBN 3-453-08121-8 , p. 303.

[2] Poker with four queens. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed February 21, 2017 .

[3] Joe Hembus: The Western Lexicon. 1567 films from 1894 to the present day . [Extended new edition by Benjamin Hembus.] Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 1995 [first edition 1976], ISBN 3-453-08121-8 , p. 303.