Pursued (1947)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Tracked |
| Original title | Pursued |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1947 |
| length | 96 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Raoul Walsh |
| script | Niven bush |
| production | Milton Sparrow |
| music | Max Steiner |
| camera | James Wong Howe |
| cut | Christian Nyby |
| occupation | |
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The pursuit is an American film by Raoul Walsh from 1947. Alternative title is Late Revenge .
action
The film is set in the USA at the end of the 19th / beginning of the 20th century. Jeb Rand was taken in by mother Callum as a child and grew up with the Callum children Thorley and Adam. Jeb has been plagued by nightmares since childhood that revolve around the night in which Jeb's father and sister were killed. Jeb just has no clear memories. These tangled memories haunt him all his life. Little does he know that it is a family feud between the Rands and the Callums. As a child, Grant Callum, who is a relative of the Callums, ambushed him. As an adult, Jeb runs the Callums ranch with Adam and falls in love with Thorley. When the Spanish-American War breaks out, Jeb and Adam work out who should join the army. Jeb loses and is wounded in the war. He comes back as a hero and wants to marry Thorley. Adam stands between the couple. When they toss a coin again to see who will run the ranch, Jeb loses again. When he still wants to marry Thorley and wants to go away with her, Adam lies in wait for him and wants to shoot him. Jeb does not realize that it is Adam who shoots at him from a distance and kills Adam. This leads to a falling out with Thorley and her mother.
At a party, Grant Callum incites the young admirer Prentice to kill Jeb. Jeb kills the young man again in self-defense. Thorley now hates Jeb so much that she wants to kill him. To get close to him, however, she marries him and wants to kill him on their wedding night. At the same time, Grant Callum sets out with followers to kill Jeb. Jeb and Thorley, who failed to murder the man she had loved since childhood, flee to the old, derelict ranch of the Rands. Grant Callum captures Jeb and wants to hang him when Mother Callum arrives. In the ranch, Jeb's old memories from the night of his father's death come back to life. He now knows that Grant Callum murdered his family. Thorley tells her mother about it, who admits that she had a love affair with Jeb's father. She shoots Grant Callum, and Jeb is a free man.
background
The story of the family feud seems rather homely today, but its design is still of cinematographic size. The old master of cinema Raoul Walsh mixed the film noir genre, which was popular in the 1940s, with the western , creating a psychological drama that revels in perfectly illuminated black and white pictures. The result was an art western, as the screenwriter Niven Busch had already succeeded in with Duel in the Sun by King Vidor . The role of Jeb Rand was originally intended to be played by Montgomery Clift or Kirk Douglas . Robert Mitchum, who always seemed a bit sinister, finally got it. As the location for the exterior shots, the producers chose from Warner Brothers , the Monument Valley , which is primarily by the films of John Ford became famous.
Reviews
"Perfectly staged, unusual 'psychological' western with elements of 'film noir', which became important for the development of the genre."
Web links
- Followed in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Pursued. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .