Wichita (film)

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Movie
German title Wichita
Original title Wichita
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1955
length 81 minutes
Rod
Director Jacques Tourneur
script Daniel B. Ullman
production Walter Mirisch
music Hans J. Salter
camera Harold Lipstein
cut William Austin
occupation

Wichita is a film of French director Jacques Tourneur from the year 1955 . The western is based on a short story by the American Daniel B. Ullman , who also wrote the screenplay , and was produced by Allied Artists Pictures Corporation .

action

Gunslinger Wyatt Earp becomes marshal in Wichita and makes sure that the law and the law don't give way to the onslaught of violent drovers from Texas in the up-and-coming city. He gets married and moves with his wife to Dodge City to there as well for law and order to ensure.

Reviews

Joe Hembus describes Wichita as a very nice film “from the sheriff, who calmly and persistently does his job (...) and has to experience anew every day that the representatives of the business are only conditionally in favor of law and order, because unrest is the same Sales is. ” The story is by and large authentic, but her hero was a lawyer named Tucker. Earp later appropriated the story. Phil Hardy calls the film an "outstanding western". Tourneurs direction is "simple and stylish" , the script is "action-packed".

Remarks

  • The title song Wichita is by Tex Ritter , the "singing cowboy".
  • The later successful film director and screenwriter Sam Peckinpah acts here in his third film in a small role as a bank teller.

Awards

  • In 1956, Wichita won the Golden Globe for Best Outdoor Drama .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joe Hembus: Western Lexicon - 1272 films from 1894-1975. 2nd Edition. Hanser, Munich, Vienna 1977, ISBN 3-446-12189-7 , p. 697.
  2. ^ Phil Hardy: The Encyclopedia of Western Movies. Woodbury Press, Minneapolis 1984, ISBN 0-8300-0405-X , p. 244.