Man to Man (1967)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Man to man |
| Original title | Since uomo a uomo |
| Country of production | Italy |
| original language | Italian , English |
| Publishing year | 1967 |
| length | 120 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 (previously 18) |
| Rod | |
| Director | Giulio Petroni |
| script | Luciano Vincenzoni |
| production |
Henryk Chrosicki , Alfredo Sansone |
| music | Ennio Morricone |
| camera | Carlo Carlini |
| cut | Eraldo Da Roma |
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From man to man (original title: Da uomo a uomo; English title: Death Rides A Horse ) is a spaghetti western by Giulio Petroni from 1967 . The score was written by Ennio Morricone ; an alternative title is the bill is paid with lead .
action
As a child, Bill Maceita survived the massacre of his family by a group of bandits because a stranger took him out of the burning house.
Fifteen years later, Bill has grown into a young man and skilled shooter, but still inexperienced. He meets the former bandit Ryan, who was betrayed by his gang and has therefore spent the last 15 years in the penal camp, and now wants to take revenge. Ryan takes the blind hatred driven Bill under his wing and puts him on the trail of the bandits who murdered his family. They have now become rich and powerful citizens of emerging cities. The two dissimilar men Bill and Ryan are in competition because everyone wants revenge for themselves. Little by little they kill the bandits and save each other's lives several times.
In order to bring down the last and most powerful enemy, the brutal Walcott, and his henchmen, they reunite and defeat him. However, Bill recognizes Ryan as one of the bandits in the assault on his family. Although Ryan tries to convince Bill that he was not involved in the act himself but that he saved Bill from the fire afterwards, a duel between the two ensues in the upcoming sandstorm. But instead of shooting at Ryan, Bill kills the last remaining bandit with his last shot, whereupon Ryan shows his last cartridge, which he still holds in his hand - he did not want to shoot Bill. Then they part ways.
background
Quentin Tarantino's two-part Kill Bill , consisting of volumes 1 and 2 , was inspired by Von Mann zu Mann , among others . Motifs from Morricone's soundtrack can also be heard in Kill Bill.
The relatively low level of awareness of the film is mainly attributed by genre fans to the cast of the lead role with John Phillip Law , for whom Man to Man remained the only western of his acting career. Especially because the film is reminiscent of Sergio Leone's dollar trilogy in many ways - be it the cunning script and the ironic dialogues, the highly acclaimed directing by Petroni, the other cast with Lee van Cleef , Luigi Pistilli and Mario Brega or the Film music by Ennio Morricone - Law ultimately seems like a foreign body. This effect is reinforced by the fact that Law in the film is dressed like Clint Eastwood in the "dollar films", but in the obvious comparison with the spaghetti western legend appears even paler.
Reviews
"Already in his first western, Giulio Petroni showed all his talent with an ice cold story of revenge [...] This extraordinary western [...] is one of the best of its genre."
"Routinely staged spaghetti westerns who, despite the conciliatory ending, remain ambivalent because of the glorification of vengeance."
“As contestable as the basic attitude of this film may be - as a lurid western it is brilliantly made […] That the commercial calculation worked out is also thanks to Lee van Cleef, the convict. With meager, theatrical means, this old-timer plays the film sons smoothly on the cinema wall. "
Web links
- Man to man in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Man to man in the online film database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Achim Geisenhanslüke, Christian Steltz (ed.): Unfinished Business: Quentin Tarantino's “Kill Bill” and the open accounts of cultural studies . transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2006. Page 24
- ↑ Man to man. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .