Four for Texas
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Four for Texas |
| Original title | 4 for Texas |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1963 |
| length | 115 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Robert Aldrich |
| script |
Teddi Sherman Robert Aldrich W. R. Burnett |
| production | Robert Aldrich |
| music | Nelson Riddle |
| camera | Ernest Laszlo |
| cut | Michael Luciano |
| occupation | |
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Vier für Texas (original title: 4 for Texas ) is an American western from 1963 by Robert Aldrich . Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin played the leading roles in this comedy film .
action
Zack Thomas and Joe Jarrett witness a robbery on a carriage that is on its way to Galveston. Zack and Joe, who did not know each other before, managed to put the gang of gangster Matson to flight. Zack discovers a bag with 100,000 dollars, but Joe can take it from him. Joe escapes with the bag to an orphanage where he grew up. He deposited the money in Harvey Burden's bank. Burden is a scammer who helped Zack make him the biggest player in town.
Zack learns that Joe is in Galveston. He wants to meet with him, but Matson tries to kill him. But that is thwarted by Joe, who wounds the bandit. Joe is on his way to Maxine Richter, who owns a river steamer that Joe wants to use the money to convert into a casino. Zack is upset that someone dares to compete with him. Zack and his men want to hijack the steamer at the opening. Neither Zack nor Joe know that Burden teamed up with Matson. His plan is for Zack and Joe to fight each other and then beat the weakened winner with Matson and take over the steamer. Maxine and Zack's girlfriend Elya Carlson can finally win the two opponents for a collaboration. Matson's gang is defeated, Burden is arrested, and in the end there is a double wedding.
background
The Three Stooges made a guest appearance as suppliers with the cast of Moe Howard , Larry Fine and Curly Joe DeRita . Yaphet Kotto can be seen in a small role in his screen debut . Among the stuntmen for this film was the future director Hal Needham .
For the film, nude shots of Anita Ekberg and Ursula Andress were shot, the first in Hollywood. However, the footage was removed from the film prior to release due to censorship. The film premiered on December 18, 1963 in the United States. In Germany it was first shown in cinemas on February 14, 1964.
Reviews
The lexicon of international films called the film a “Western satire with wit and star cast”, which was “sometimes macabre and ironic, but not all-round fun”. The film magazine Cinema found, “the flat Western persiflage lives from the nonchalant main actors and the attraction of the sex bombs Anita Ekberg and Ursula Andress. Conclusion: nonsense westerns with few laughs. "
Variety complained that the film lost itself too much in sex and romance and could not maintain the tension.
Awards
As a top action drama , the film reached fourth place at the 1964 Laurel Awards .
Web links
- Four for Texas in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Four for Texas at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ See imdb.com
- ↑ Four for Texas. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed May 25, 2019 .
- ↑ See cinema.de
- ^ Four for Texas . In: Variety , 1963.