Death March of the Beasts

Movie
German title	Death March of the Beasts
Original title	Condenados a vivir
Country of production	Spain
original language	Spanish
Publishing year	1972
length	90 minutes
Age rating	FSK 18 (confiscated)
Rod
Director	José Romero Marchent
script	José Romero Marchent Santiago Moncada
production	José Romero Marchent
music	Carmelo A. Bernaola
camera	Luis Cuadrado
cut	Mercedes Alonso
occupation
Robert Hundar : Sergeant Brown Emma Cohen : Sarah Brown Alberto Dalbés : Thomas Lawrence, ´Dandy Tom` Antonio Iranzo : Ray Brewster, 'The Torch' Manuel Tejada : Dean Marlowe Ricardo Díaz : Joe Farrow, ´Comanchero` José Manuel Martín : John McFarlane, ´the weasel` Carlos Romero Marchent : Slim Rafael Hernández : Dick Patterson Eduardo Calvo : Taylor Lorenzo Robledo : soldier Emilio Rodriguez : Caldwell Xan das Bolas : Buddy (as Tomas Ares ) Francisco Nieto : Bandit Antonio Padilla : security guard Simón Arriaga : Soldier Joe Farrell Juan Antonio Elices : Grampa Bandit Mabel Karr : Mrs. Brown Dan van Husen : Lackey

Cut-Throats Nine (original title: Condendados a vivir ) is a spaghetti western by José Romero Marchent from 1972. The indexed in Germany experienced film on video first performed.

content

1892: Sergeant Brown leads a trek with seven felons chained together and his daughter Kathy - his wife was murdered - through the snowy mountains of the Rocky Mountains to prison in Ft. Green. On the way they are attacked by a group of gangsters who have heard that gold is also being transported. They find nothing, but those who stay behind are now without horses or wagons. They have to move on on foot. Sergeant Brown, the only one with a rifle, tries to protect his daughter and to identify his wife's killer among the seven.

When the convicts find out that the gold was forged as chains around their feet, a fight begins, everyone against everyone. More and more the troops are reduced - one injured in the attack is killed and “forgotten” in the campfire, another is stabbed to death; the exhausted and almost frozen Brown tortured and burned after reaching a hut. Those who remain manage to free themselves from the chains. When there are only two left, Kathy blows up the hut, killing herself too.

criticism

"The approaches to socially critical reflection on the behavior of different characters in extreme situations are unfortunately drowned in the director's efforts to shoot the bloodiest and most cruel spaghetti westerns."

- Lexicon of international film

Remarks

The film was indexed by the federal inspection agency for writings harmful to minors, and later even confiscated. In 2008 this was extended to DVD.

Web links

• Cut-Throats Nine in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Death March of the Beasts. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .  
2. ↑ Cologne District Court, confiscation order of July 8, 1992, file number 503 Gs 143/91
3. ↑ List from 2008