Stagecoach to Thunder Rock

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Movie
German title Stagecoach to Thunder Rock
Original title Stage to Thunder Rock
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1964
length 82 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director William F. Claxton
script Charles Wallace
production AC Lyles
music Paul Dunlap
camera W. Wallace Kelley
cut Jodie Copelan
occupation

Stagecoach to Thunder Rock (original title: Stage to Thunder Rock ) is an American western from 1964 directed by William F. Claxton . The leading roles are cast alongside Barry Sullivan with Marilyn Maxwell , Scott Brady and Lon Chaney junior .

action

Sheriff Horne, who some of the citizens of Thunder Rock would like to overthrow, tracks down the Sawyer brothers who robbed the local bank and lightened it for $ 50,000. He kills Toby, one of the brothers, and takes the other prisoner. Horne himself is injured in the arm in the exchange of fire. Reese Sawyer threatens that his father Ross will come and destroy him. Horne owes a lot to Ross Sawyer for adopting and raising him.

A stagecoach has now arrived in Thunder Rock, and Sam Swope with his wife and daughter and Leah Horne get out of it. You are greeted by Mayor Ted Dollar. He knows Leah from before and says that everything has changed in town. Leah Horne wants to visit her family, who live west of the town on a farm with a post office . The city leaders want Leah to leave the city as soon as possible. Sam Swope was hired by Judge Bates and the Mayor to finish off the Sawyers. He is said to have received $ 5,000 plus $ 5,000 for each of the Sawyers he'll kill. Then the men let it be known that the sheriff has to go, like, that was Swope's business. Swope took the job because he was in dire need of money to help his blind daughter.

Horne first places Reese in the nearby stagecoach depot to wait for the next stagecoach to Thunder Rock. The depot is run by Henry Parker and his eternally nagging wife Myra. In addition to their older daughter Leah, they also have their daughter Julie, who desperately wants to leave her parents' home. Henry doesn't manage to assert himself against his wife. It seems like he gave up long ago. After Leah is greeted happily by her mother, she clearly shows her disappointment when the daughter cannot give her the financial support she had hoped for. The Parkers desperately need money to pay for the land they live on or they will lose it. To make matters worse, the stagecoach line will also be discontinued shortly. Her mother thinks Leah is a teacher, but her father knows that his daughter worked as an animator .

Swope frankly admits to Horne that the city officials would rather see him dead than alive and that he would receive some kind of bounty for shooting the Sawyers . Horne replies that he then has to shoot him first. Reese, in turn, offers Leah $ 300 if she can get him a pistol. When she tells Horne about it and he asks her if she took the money, she is outraged how he could even ask such a thing. Leah and Horne know each other from before. They were once a couple. When Leah asks Horne how he feels about her now, he replies that if he loves any woman in the world, then it is her. He couldn't tell her more.

Reese then has more luck with Myra Parker, she tries to pass him a revolver in return for appropriate payment. However, the gun goes off prematurely and alerts Horne. Sam Swope has now realized that Horne is the better shot and tells him that he will withdraw because of it. But he will try to finish off Ross Sawyer, who is worth $ 5,000, the money he needs for his daughter's operation. Since Horne has to guard Reese, he has to let Swope go. In the meantime, Henry Parker has gotten his head and is taking the helm in his house again. Meanwhile, Ross is finishing up Swope on his way to the post office when the men meet. Then Ross and Horne face each other and Horne is a bit faster and kills the man to whom he owes a lot. The Parkers decide to fight for their country and stay together as a family, while Horne gets into the stagecoach to Thunder Rock with Reese and the stolen money, knowing that Leah will be waiting for him.

Production notes

The film was produced by Paramount Pictures , aka AC Lyles Productions. His working title was Stagecoach to Hell . The premiere of the film was on June 17, 1964 in Seattle , United States, on November 10, 1964 it ran in New York . In the Federal Republic of Germany the film was released on October 1, 1964, in Austria also in October 1964. In Denmark, it opened on June 12, 1964.

criticism

The lexicon of international films found: "Hard, well-acted western."

Also Cinefacts confirmed the film "Hard Western with atmospheric density."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stagecoach to Thunder Rock. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed November 27, 2018 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. ↑ Stagecoach to Thunder Rock cinefacts.de. Retrieved July 31, 2015.