City of the Damned
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | City of the Damned |
| Original title | Silver Lode |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1954 |
| length | 81 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Allan Dwan |
| script | Karen DeWolf |
| production |
Benedict Bogeaus for RKO Pictures |
| music | Louis Forbes |
| camera | John Alton |
| cut | James Leicester |
| occupation | |
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City of the Damned (original title: Silver Lode ) is a western by Allan Dwan from 1954. It was produced in Technicolor .
action
On July 4th, Independence Day , four men ride to a small town in Kansas to arrest the farmer Dan Ballard, who is believed to have committed a murder two years ago. The leader is Fred McCarthy, who pretends to be a district judge in California . Together with the local judge, Ballard, who was just about to get married, manages to postpone his arrest by two hours in order to try to prove his innocence. It soon turns out that almost the entire city turns against him and hunts him instead of helping him.
background
The film is inspired by the Western Twelve Noon , made two years earlier . The figure of Fred McCarthy stands for the then politician Joseph McCarthy and his restrictive campaign against an alleged infiltration of the USA by communists.
Reviews
The lexicon of international films writes: "Incredible cliché westerns in which murder and manslaughter are in the foreground."
Web links
- City of the Damned in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ City of the Damned. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 20, 2018 .