Fast Colts for Jeannie Lee

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Movie
German title Fast Colts for Jeannie Lee
Original title Sfida a Rio Bravo
Country of production Italy , Spain , France
original language Italian
Publishing year 1964
length 100 (other verse 85) minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Tulio Demicheli
script Tulio Demicheli
Gene Luotto
Natividad Zaro
production Italo Zingarelli
(as Ike Zingarmann )
music Angelo Francesco Lavagnino
camera Guglielmo Mancori , Mario Capriotti
cut Roberto Cinquini
occupation

Fast Colts for Jeannie Lee (Original title: Sfida a Rio Bravo ) is a spaghetti western from Tulio Demicheli in 1964. German-language premiere was on April 6, 1966th

action

Rio Bravo is bullied by the unscrupulous businessman Zack Williams (Tichy) and his henchmen. He would own all the mines in the area, even if the young Clementine Hewitt (Davis) is overwriting the one inherited from her father. He responded to her long refusal to do so with intimidation and violence; he also uses the gang of the Mexican Pancho Bogan (Sancho) to raid the silver transports from that mine. Clementine got to a point where she wanted to give up and go away, but her best friend Jeannie Lee (Lebeau), the owner of the saloon in Rio Bravo, had turned to an old friend for help without her knowledge: Through a shooting four years ago in Tombstone made famous lawman Wyatt Earp (Madison).

In order not to be recognized immediately, the gunslinger uses the pseudonym "Laramie". One of them knows him anyway: Sheriff Leo (Serato), who has come to terms with Williams' machinations and therefore increasingly approves of alcohol. But when his ex-boyfriend is accused of murder by the villains and the gallows threatens, the law enforcement officer gets up and fights together with "Laramie", both of whom come across that Bogan was ripped off by Williams in the latest silver robbery. "Laramie" advises the Mexican to disappear to his homeland, but the Mexican wants to pull off one last coup. This becomes his undoing - a follower of Williams shoots him from an ambush. Then "Laramie" settles mercilessly with the villain on the main street of Rio Bravo ...

Reviews

"Entertaining western ... from the early days of the spaghetti western."

- Ulrich P. Bruckner: For a few more corpses. Munich 2006, pp. 89/90.

“Demicheli obviously feels most comfortable when he can show riders in a wide landscape. He cannot convey the insights into the business life of Rio Bravo so convincingly. "

- Joe Hembus: The Western Lexicon. Munich 1995, p. 559

"Not exactly more original, but sufficiently entertaining Euro Western."

"Despite a whole sample collection of clichés, the work is very pleasant in form and content and can be recommended to friends of the genre [...]."

background

It was after Old Shatterhand for lead actor Guy Madison , who after missing a more promising career in some insignificant US westerns of the 1950s and also became famous as the protagonist of the CBS TV series The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok ( Bill Hickok ) the second wild west strip in Europe; A whole series of other engagements followed in the Italian-Spanish offshoot of the US home genre. For real connoisseurs, the re-encounter with Madeleine Lebeau , who had interpreted a small role as a friend of Humphrey Bogart in the eternity classic Casablanca (1942), is also of interest .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Jump up ↑ Fast Colts for Jeannie Lee. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. Evangelical Press Association Munich, Review No. 217/2014.