San Sebastian (film)

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Movie
German title San Sebastian
Original title La Bataille De San Sebastian
Country of production France , Italy , Mexico
original language English
Publishing year 1967
length 115 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Henri Verneuil
script Serge Whole
Miguel Morayta
Ennio de Concini
James R. Webb
music Ennio Morricone
camera Armand Thirard
cut Françoise Bonnot
occupation

San Sebastian is a spaghetti westerns of Henri Verneuil from 1967, based on the written 1962 novel A Wall for San Sebastian by William Barby Faherty . In Germany, the film was also released under the title Die Hölle von San Sebastian .

action

Outlaw Alastray is taken in by the good-natured priest Joseph while fleeing from government troops. When it becomes known that Joseph is giving the man he was looking for, he loses his job and sets off with Alastray, disguised as a monk, to another city. Shortly before a seemingly deserted place, Joseph is shot from an ambush. The citizens take Alastray for the priest and ask him to work in their community. Reluctantly and in order not to blow his cover, Alastray plays along. It turns out that the local community is being terrorized by a group of Indians led by the half-blood Teclo. Alastray helps the residents to defend themselves against the Indians. A decisive battle ensues.

criticism

Joe Hembus wrote in his Western Lexicon: “The only Western by Henry Verneuil and, besides Robert Hossein's Cemetery without Crosses, France's only contribution to the European Western. Anthony Quinn puts so much monumentality into his playing as if he wanted to make all the rest of the effort superfluous. ”The lexicon of international film found the film entertaining; Vincent Canby complained that the sequential sequence of the scenes was so schematic that their entirety was even less than the individual parts, which were sometimes exciting.

literature

  • Maurice Bessy, Raymond Chirat, André Bernard: Histoire du cinéma français. Encyclopédie des Films 1966–1970. (with photos for each film) Éditions Pygmalion, Paris 1992, ISBN 2-85704-379-1 , p. 180.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hembus, Joe : Western Lexicon. 1324 films from 1894 to 1978 (Heyne books, no.7048). Revised paperback edition. Heyne, Munich 1978, ISBN 3-453-00767-0
  2. San Sebastian. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ^ Review in the New York Times