Rocco - the man with the two faces
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Rocco - the man with the two faces |
| Original title | Sugar Colt |
| Country of production | Italy , Spain |
| original language | Italian |
| Publishing year | 1966 |
| length | 100 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Franco Giraldi |
| script |
Giuseppe Mangione Franco Giraldi Augusto Finocchi Fernando Di Leo Sandro Continenza |
| production |
Franco Cittadini Stenio Fiorentini Francisco Lara Polop |
| music | Luis Bacalov |
| camera | Alejandro Ulloa junior |
| cut | Ruggero Mastroianni |
| occupation | |
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Rocco - the man with two faces (original title: Sugar Colt ) is a spaghetti western by Franco Giraldi from 1966. The film, a rare crime western, was praised by several critics and premiered in German-speaking countries on May 14, 1968 and in the GDR shown as a cavalry in need with a different synchronization.
action
Shortly after the war, an entire battalion of Northern soldiers mysteriously disappears. Two years later, their relatives received ransom notes demanding payments of ransom. The government sends Sugar Colt, who works as a women's pistol trainer instructor, to the Strange Disappearance area as a Pinkerton private investigator. There he appears as Dr. Tom Cooper disguises himself and, with the help of a few locals, is able to uncover that the soldiers are being held captive by former Captain Haberbrook in order to extort ransom for them. Sugar Colt can stage a prisoner uprising, at the end of which those responsible are dead and the soldiers' families are happily reunited.
criticism
Positive the German-language reviews; it is “thanks to human aspects and original direction an above-average spaghetti western”, who deals with “imaginatively its actually most serious story” and “contains successful dramatic sequences”, although the prevailing mood is that of a humorous film. The “clean staging” was also highlighted. The Italian colleagues were less enthusiastic and thought that director Giraldi was selling himself below value by filming clichés and well-known set pieces and only allowed the conventional scenes of violence to be justified late by the late triumph of the hero. The Protestant film observer is also disapproving : "An extremely raw spaghetti western, reveling in the rambling demonstration of a repulsive milieu, which we cannot recommend to anyone."
Remarks
I Cantori Moderni interpret the theme song Sugar Colt ; Felice Culasso played the solo trumpet on the soundtrack .
The gross profit in Italy was Lire 334 million .
An uncut DVD was released by Koch Media in 2013 .
synchronization
The synchronization of the Aventin Film Studio in Munich is not broken down into the cast of the individual roles (apart from Erich Ebert for Victor Israel); the GDR's cavalry-in-emergency version was created in 1985.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Entry at the Archivio del Cinema Italiano
- ↑ Rocco - the man with the two faces. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Christian Keßler : Welcome to Hell . 2002, p. 242
- ^ Francesco Mininni, in the magazine Italiano TV
- ↑ Segnalazioni Cinematografiche , Vol. 61, 1967
- ↑ Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 241/1968.
- ^ Roberto Poppi, Mario Pecorari: Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film Vol. 3. Rome, Gremese, 1992, pp. 527/528
- ↑ Entry in the synchronous file with speaker assignment