Ride in the whirlwind

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Movie
German title Ride in the whirlwind
Original title Ride in the Whirlwind
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1966
length 82 minutes
Rod
Director Monte Hellman
script Jack Nicholson
production Jack Nicholson
Monte Hellman
Roger Corman (uncredited)
music Robert Drasnin
camera Gregory Sandor
cut Monte Hellman (uncredited)
occupation

Ritt im Wirbelwind (original title: Ride in the Whirlwind ) is an American western from 1966 by the director Monte Hellman , which he produced together with Jack Nicholson . In addition to Nicholson, the leading roles are played by Cameron Mitchell and Tom Filer. Millie Perkins can be seen in a supporting role. Based on the screenplay by Jack Nicholson, the film is about three men who get caught between the front lines in a shootout while hunting down a band of robbers.

The film was shot in the Utah desert in 1965 ; immediately after Hellman's similar western The Shooting , in which Jack Nicholson also appeared. Both films were shown at several international film festivals , but the film rights were not sold to the Walter Reade Organization until 1968 . This decided not to show the films in the cinema and sold them directly to television.

action

A group of bandits led by Blind Dick ( Harry Dean Stanton ) raids a stagecoach. The driver is killed in the attack, but Evan, one of the bandits, is also wounded. The passengers are robbed and the stagecoach is then sent on.

Meanwhile, the cowboys Vern ( Cameron Mitchell ), Wes ( Jack Nicholson ) and Otis (Tom Filer) are on their way to a cattle drive. You will find accommodation in the hut where the stagecoach robbers have already found refuge. Blind Dick previously sent two of the bandits to the surrounding mountains to investigate and invited the three cowboys to spend the night in the hut. However, the cowboys set up camp outside the hut, possibly due to the wounded Evan and Blind Dick's unbelievable story that Evan fell into his knife. The cowboys as well as the bandits plan to move on the next morning.

Suddenly a squad of law enforcement officers appear and ask the bandits in the hut to give up. They decide to engage in a shootout to fight their way out. The cowboys encamped outside the hut decide to flee themselves, but the way into the valley is blocked by the lawmen and Otis is killed in the shooting, so that Vern and Wes are forced to abandon their horses and head over the mountains choose. The law enforcement officers set the hut on fire after the bandits refuse to surrender, so that the last two surviving bandits, including Blind Dick, have to give up and are subsequently taken away and hanged immediately.

Under the false assumption that the two cowboys are bandits, the squad goes after Vern and Wes. They have to realize that it is impossible to escape over the mountains and without horses, so they have to flee over the valley. They come across the house of a family of three who have already been informed of the search for Vern and Wes by two law enforcement officers. The two manage to keep the two women in the hut named Catherine ( Katherine Squire ) and Abigail ( Millie Perkins ) in check while their father Evan (George Mitchell) is outside chopping up a tree stump. When Evan comes into the house to eat, they can force him to sit still too. Wes goes outside with Abigail hostage to check on the horses as an escape route. Then the two cowboys send Hagerman back outside to work on the stump so that they can rest and eat in the house while they hold the two women hostage.

When a law enforcement officer shows up the next day, the cowboys are betrayed by Evan, who works outside, so Vern and Wes have to flee. When Evan tries to prevent the stealing of his horses and shoots Vern from his horse, he himself is shot by Wes. Since Vern's horse fled the shooting, Wes has to pull the wounded Vern onto his own horse. The law enforcement officers, who soon arrived due to the gunfire, immediately started the pursuit. Vern, wounded in the stomach, decides to send Wes alone and to attract the attention of the pursuers and stop him. The law enforcement officers are distracted by the following exchange of fire; they try to flank Vern with a circumvention maneuver. When the law enforcement officers arrive at Vern, he has already succumbed to his wounds. This allows Wes to escape on his own horse.

production

In 1964, Monte Hellman and Jack Nicholson had already made two films together: Back Door to Hell and Flight to Fury , which were produced by Roger Corman and shot in the Philippines in direct succession . After filming was finished, Hellman and Nicholson worked on a script called Epitaph and presented it to Corman. He didn't find it interesting, but asked the two of them if they would shoot a western for him instead. After they showed interest, Corman suggested they shoot a second western as well. They should both be made in a similar manner to the films made in the Philippines. So the director and the actor agreed. While Nicholson was beginning the script for Ride in the Whirlwind , Hellman asked Carole Eastman to work on the script for The Shooting .

Hellman and Nicholson spent several weeks locating locations together . For example, they checked out Monument Valley before finally settling on Kanab , Utah. This region offered them both a canyon landscape , which they needed for riding in the whirlwind , and the vast deserts for shooting .

In addition to Nicholson, Millie Perkins, both of whom had already appeared in The Shooting , was signed up for this film. Perkins was Hellman's neighbor at the time. She had known him and Jack Nicholson for a number of years because they had all gone to the same drama school together.

Corman co-financed the film himself, but is not named in the credits as a producer . The budget was an estimated $ 75,000. Filming began in May 1965, immediately after the shooting of Das Schießen was finished . Both films were completed within six weeks of continuous shooting.

Before Hellman had the films shown at various film festivals, he spent over a year editing the films. In 1967 both films received very good reviews at the World Film Festival in Montreal and were shown out of competition at the Cannes International Film Festival .

The US film distributors showed no interest in either film. Nicholson sold the international rights to a French film producer. However, this went bankrupt and the film copies of both films remained under bondage at Paris airport for almost two years. After a legal battle, Hellman and Nicholson were able to regain the rights. In 1968 both films were shown in Paris cinemas without film distribution. According to Hellman, Das Schießen became a considerable art-house success and was shown in Paris for over a year. Also in 1968, the US rights to both films were sold to the Walter Read Organization, a New York theater chain that occasionally sold films (it was also the first to release the film Night of the Living Dead ). But this decided to go back to theatrical performances. Instead, both films were sold direct to television. In 1971, the rights were transferred to Jack H. Harris Enterprises Inc., who bought it because of Jack Nicholson's newfound fame. Although advertised, there are no sources of subsequent performances under the Harris distribution.

synchronization

role Actor / original speaker Voice actor
1st synchronization		 Voice actor
2nd synchronization
Vern Cameron Mitchell Heinz Petruo Hartmut Neugebauer
Wes Jack Nicholson Christian Brückner Heiner Lauterbach
Blind Dick Harry Dean Stanton Gerd Martienzen Harald Leipnitz
Abigail Millie Perkins ? Marina Koehler
Evan George Mitchell ? Christian Marshal

Reviews

Since Ritt im Wirbelwind was never shown in cinemas and rarely shown on television, the film had only a small number of fans. The critics who saw the film mostly found The Shooting better than Ritt im Whirlwind .

Ritt im Wirbelwind has a rating of 100% in the critics rating on Rotten Tomatoes . The film scores 6.6 out of 10 on the Internet Movie Database . (February 2018)

In 2000, Ritt im Wirbelwind was released on DVD. This includes an audio commentary from director Hellman and actress Perkins. Only the DVD made the film known to a larger audience.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Monte Hellman: The Shooting . DVD , VCI Video, 2000, ISBN 1-55739-147-5 ; Audio commentary.
  2. ↑ Millie Perkins: The Shooting . DVD , VCI Video, 2000, ISBN 1-55739-147-5 ; Audio commentary.
  3. ↑ a b c Danny Peary: Cult Movies . Delta Books, 1981. ISBN 0-517-20185-2
  4. ↑ James Monaco: The Movie Guide . Perigee Books, 1992, ISBN 0-399-51780-4 .
  5. ↑ Ralph Blasi: Vanishing Films . In: Show Magazine, February 1970, quoted in Cult Movies . Delta Books, 1981, ISBN 0-517-20185-2
  6. ↑ Mike White: Monte Hellman: In His Own Words . Cashiers Du Cinemart. Retrieved February 12, 2018.
  7. ↑ a b c Ride in the Whirlwind . Internet Movie Database. Retrieved February 12, 2018.
  8. ^ Brad Stevens: Monte Hellman: His Life and Films . McFarland, 2002, ISBN 978-0-7864-1434-5 .
  9. ↑ Ritt im Wirbelwind (1st synchro) in the German dubbing index . Retrieved February 12, 2018.
  10. ↑ Ritt im Wirbelwind (2nd Synchro) in the German dubbing index . Retrieved February 12, 2018.
  11. ^ Ride in the Whirlwind (1967). Rotten Tomatoes , accessed January 12, 2018 .