Saskachevan

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Movie
German title Saskachevan
Original title Saskatchewan
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1954
length 84 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Raoul Walsh
script Gil Doud
production Aaron Rosenberg
music William Lava
camera John F. Seitz
cut Frank Gross
occupation
synchronization

Saskatschewan [ səsˈkɛtʃivn̩ ], in Austria Red Riders of Canada , is an American western from the production company Universal International Pictures from 1954 by Raoul Walsh with Alan Ladd and Shelley Winters in the lead roles. The film was shot in Banff National Park in Canada , not far from the headwaters of the Saskatchewan River .

The film was released in US theaters on March 30, 1954. The cinema release in Germany was on October 1, 1954. It was first broadcast on German television on January 18, 1968 on ARD .

action

The Canadian Mounty Thomas O'Rourke rides in civilian clothes and accompanied by his Indian friend Cajou through the Canadian Rocky Mountains to a fort. On the way, both are ambushed , it turns out, by an unaccompanied woman named Grace Markey. She claims that her company was attacked and massacred by Indians. The three of them finally reach the camp. Meanwhile in uniform, O'Rourke received an order from the camp commandant to take the rifle from his friend and companion, as the Indians were forbidden to use firearms. O'Rourke reluctantly complies with the order and receives the rifle, making his previous friend an enemy. Then a US marshal arrives at the camp with an arrest warrant for Grace for murder. He arrests her and sets off for the United States with a group that includes O'Rourke.

On the way, the marshal provokes the enmity of the surrounding Indian tribes by shooting an Indian after a dispute over a rifle. He also makes himself unpopular with his prisoners and O'Rourke when he tries to leave an injured Mounty behind to avoid being stopped. After O'Rourke's initial insubordination to his commander, O'Rourke is increasingly benevolent in recognition of his selflessness in his mission against the devious marshal. When the group is surrounded on all sides by Indians and cornered, the conflict between O'Rourke and the marshal comes to a head after he has admitted Grace's innocence and his own perpetration. He threatens O'Rourke and is shot dead in self-defense by his commander. The troops then have to flee from the advancing united Reds. But the Sioux tribes under Chief Sitting Bull and the Crees under Chief Adlerauge are suspicious of each other, and so O'Rourke is able to convince the Cree of his good intentions and, after the promise of arms deliveries, receives free withdrawal, to the annoyance of Cajous.

When he returned to the fort, he was arrested for this arbitrary action and locked up with his men, who were also interned. The commandant, meanwhile, lets advance against the Sioux. Cajou, meanwhile convinced of his benevolence, helps him to escape in the hope of the weapons, which he then delivers to the Cree, while the continued garrison of the Sioux, about whom O'Rourke had warned the commanding officer, is almost completely wiped out. But the now upgraded Cree come to their aid in association with O'Rourke. In the end he and Cajou finally reconcile.

criticism

The film service saw "lively battle scenes and beautiful landscapes in an adventurous Indian west", while Cinema spoke of a "magnificent horse opera".

synchronization

The German synchronization took place with the following speakers:

actor speaker role
Alan Ladd Wilhelm Borchert Thomas O'Rourke
Shelley Winters Gisela Trowe Grace Markey
J. Carrol Naish Clemens Hasse Batouche
Jay Silverheels Herbert Stass Cajou
Hugh O'Brian Friedrich Joloff Carl Smith
Richard Long Klaus Miedel Patrick J. Scanlon
Anthony Caruso Benno Hoffmann Spotted Eagle

Others

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Saskachevan. film service , accessed July 29, 2014 .
  2. ↑ a b Saskachevan (1954) - Release Info. Internet Movie Database , accessed July 29, 2014 .
  3. ^ Saskatchewan (1954). Cinema , accessed July 29, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Saskachevan. German synchronous index , accessed on July 29, 2014 .