Scalps (1986)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Scalps |
| Original title | Scalps |
| Country of production | Italy , Spain |
| original language | Italian |
| Publishing year | 1986 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Bruno Mattei (as Werner Knox ) |
| script |
Roberto Di Girolamo Bruno Mattei José M. Cunilles |
| production |
Sergio Cortona José M. Cunilles Isabel Mula |
| music | Luigi Ceccarelli |
| camera |
Julio Burgos Luigi Ciccarese |
| cut | Vincenzo Vanni |
| occupation | |
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Scalps is a 1986 incurred stragglers the Italowestern -wave, the Bruno Mattei directed under a pseudonym. The film premiered on video in German-speaking countries in May 1989. Alternative titles are scalps: She fights like a man and it's about your scalp, amigo! .
action
In a southern fort, Commander Colonel Connor cannot accept the end of the war. His men should keep fighting; first he sends her to bring an Indian chief's daughter to the fort. The soldiers massacre the Indians and take Yari with them. She is able to escape at night and joins the rancher Matt, who is an Indian hater because of the Indian-induced death of his wife, the daughter of the Colonel, but can suffer even more from the southerners. They form a vengeance duo that stands up to the soldiers. Despite setbacks, they manage to scalp and kill the soldiers and ultimately the commanders.
criticism
The film's critics have divergent judgments: the director, whose better films this one belongs to, breaks a lance for the enslaved Indian soul, writes Christian Keßler , "but this lance is rotten and brittle": The film is primarily about the portrayal Violent scenes and not in a story. However, he praised the photography of the work. Y. Alion, on the other hand, praised the fact that Mattei had resisted the temptation, despite some baroque excesses of violence and the rambo-esque finale, to shoot the film too much along the lines; he managed to create quite interesting characters, so that the ambitious film led to regret at the end of this genre. The lexicon of international films was not very popular: "Unexpected, banal adventure story in Western guise, with many corpses and exaggerated blatant scenes."
Remarks
The exterior shots were made in Spain. The story of the film was written by Italo Gasparini and actor Richard Harrison .
Sometimes Vincent Dawn and Claudio Fragasso are co-directors as Mattei's pseudonyms .
Web links
- Scalps in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Christian Keßler: Welcome to Hell . 2002, p. 219
- ^ Alion, in: Saison Cinématographique 1987.
- ↑ Scalps. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ^ Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del Cinema Italiano. In: I film , vol. 5: Dal 1980 al 1989, tomo 2, MZ. Rome 2000, p. 206