The proud rebel

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Movie
German title The proud rebel
Original title The Proud Rebel
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1958
length 103 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Michael Curtiz
script Joseph Petracca ,
Lillie Hayward
production Samuel Goldwyn Junior
music Jerome Moross
camera Ted McCord
cut Aaron Stell
occupation
synchronization

The Proud Rebel (original title: The Proud Rebel ) is an American western directed by Michael Curtiz from 1958 with Alan Ladd and Olivia de Havilland in the leading roles. The plot is based on a short story by James Edward Grant .

action

After the end of the American Civil War, the former Confederate soldier John Chandler travels through the northern states with his son David . David lost his voice in the civil war when their house burned down, killing his mother. Now John is looking for medical treatment so that his son can speak again. In a small town in Illinois they meet the doctor Enos Davis, who cannot help David himself, but refers to a doctor friend in Minnesota who has already helped in a number of similar cases. When a flock of sheep from the Burleigh farming family - consisting of their father Harry and his two sons - blocks the way for John and David, their loyal dog Lance is able to drive the sheep out of the way in an outstanding way. Chandler is about to go to the doctor in Minnesota, but the Burleighs try to steal the dog and involve John in a fight. The Burleighs then indict John in court.

John is sentenced in court for the brawl of either jail 30 days or paying $ 30. The farmer Linnett Moore, who happened to be present, took pity on John and his son. She suggests that the judge pay the $ 30 that Chandler can then work off on her farm. John works diligently on Linnett's farm, which she has had to manage alone since her father died. Linnett has long been pressured by Harry Burleigh to sell her farm to him so he can expand. This keeps causing arguments between Linnett and the Burleighs. They do not shy away from burning down Linnett's barn in order to finally make it compliant. Linnett and John slowly get closer to each other while they work, but John tries to keep his distance because he actually wants his son to see a doctor in Minnesota as soon as possible.

John doesn't have enough money to finance David's expensive trip to the doctor he wants. But he doesn't want to sell the dog Lance, whom he and David's beloved, either, although a villager named Birm Bates offers him a lot of money for it. Only when David is beaten up by some boys of the same age for his speechlessness does the father decide to sell Lance to Mr. Bates. Linnett now travels with David to the doctor in Minnesota, while David is rebuilding the barn that was burned down by the Burleighs. However, David's operation fails: When he returns home speechless, he finds that Lance has disappeared and is disappointed in his father. A repentant John now wants to buy Lance back from Mr. Bates, but he has now lost him to the Burleighs while playing poker. However, they can't really handle Lance and treat him very badly.

John now asks Harry Burleigh that he can get the dog back. For Harry Burleigh, John is also a thorn in his side, as his looming romance with Linnett prevents him from finally getting the lady's farm. So Harry is kind at first and explains to John that he can get the dog out of the shed - but at the same time his sons are waiting to shoot John when leaving the shed, so that it looks like a dog theft. David has to scream to save his father's life and so regains his voice. John has to kill Harry Burleigh and his older son Jeb, the younger son Tom also points his gun at John and his son, but then lets them sink in tears. John and David return with the dog to the longingly waiting Linnett.

background

James Edward Grant published his short story Journal of Linnett Moore in October 1947. Shortly afterwards, film producer Samuel Goldwyn bought the film rights at the urging of his son of the same name . Nevertheless, it took around ten years before The Proud Rebel could finally be realized. For years Goldwyn junior worked on small details in the script, from the beginning Alan Ladd was his dream cast for the leading role. Since he really wanted to make the film with a large budget, but lacked funding, Goldwyn junior paid a quarter of the budget of 1.6 million US dollars out of pocket. He later explained this step as follows: “I really had no other choice. For me it was very important that this story should be made into a film the way I thought, or that it should not be made into a film at all otherwise. ”( I really had no other choice. To me it was very important that this story be filmed as I thought it should be done or not at all. )

It was filmed in Technicolor Western near Cedar City , Utah . The role of the dog Lance was played by a border collie named King.

Alan Ladd shot here for the third time with his son David Ladd (* 1947). Both had already stood together in front of the camera in My Great Friend Shane (1953) and Ruler of a Wide Land (1957). Olivia de Havilland shot one last time with veteran director Michael Curtiz , with whom she had shot classic films such as Under Pirate Flag and Robin Hood, King of the Vagabonds in the 1930s . Production was temporarily halted when Curtiz surprisingly had to undergo appendicectomy . Since Curtiz was notorious in Hollywood for his strictness on the film set, according to De Havilland, Ladd was initially a little afraid of the film shoot. For Alan Ladd, whose career had already passed its peak in the late 1950s, it was the last leading role in a major film.

The Indian filmmaker and artist Kishore Kumar was so impressed with the film that he shot a remake with Door Gagan Ki Chhaon Mein in 1964 , but in which the plot is moved to India.

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role actor German Dubbing voice
John Chandler Alan Ladd Werner Peters
Linnett Moore Olivia de Havilland Tilly Lauenstein
Harry Burleigh Dean Jagger Paul Wagner
Dr. Enos Davis Cecil Kellaway Eduard Wandrey
Birm Bates James Westerfield Wolf Martini
Jeb Burleigh Harry Dean Stanton Herbert Stass
Judge Morley Henry Hull Alfred Balthoff
Businessman on carriage John Carradine Konrad Wagner

Awards

David Ladd received three awards at the Golden Globe Awards in 1959: He was nominated in the categories of Best Supporting Actor and Best Young Actor for his role as a mute child, and he was finally awarded a special prize for Best Young Actor .

criticism

At the box office, The Proud Rebel developed into a moderate success. Most of the critics were also positive about the western and compared it to My Great Friend Shane , one of Ladd's greatest successes. The Hollywood Reporter wrote of the film: “It's by far the best Alan Ladd has done since Shane , and we think he's even better than Shane .” 11-year-old David Ladd in particular received praise for his performance . Bosley Crowther in the New York Times wrote that the film offers multi-layered characters and good actors, so David Ladd is "astonishingly professional and personable" in his role. The landscape of Utah has been captured convincingly and offers "a suitable background for the honestly heartwarming drama" of the film.

The lexicon of international film wrote succinctly but positively: "Touching, but not maudlin western." Cinema judged similarly: "Although the western dispenses with the usual action, it does not degenerate into a maudlin melodrama."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b The proud rebel. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed July 8, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. ^ The Proud Rebel at the British Film Institute
  3. ↑ The Proud Rebel at Turner Classic Movies
  4. ↑ The Proud Rebel at Turner Classic Movies
  5. ^ David Ladd at the Internet Movie Database
  6. ↑ Notes on The Proud Rebel at Turner Classic Movies
  7. ↑ The Proud Rebel at Turner Classic Movies
  8. ↑ Door Gagan Ki Chhaon Men at the Internet Movie Database
  9. ↑ The proud rebel. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on July 8, 2017 .
  10. ^ Actor Alan Ladd's son to speak at BYU screening of 1958's "The Proud Rebel" Feb. 14 , Brigham Young University
  11. ↑ The Proud Rebel at Turner Classic Movies
  12. ↑ Bosley Crowther in the New York Times
  13. ↑ The proud rebel at Cinema