Wild land
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Wild land |
| Original title | Return to Lonesome Dove |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1993 |
| length | 322 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Mike Robe |
| script | John Wilder |
| production | Dyson Lovell |
| music | Ken Thorne |
| camera | Kees Van Oostrum |
| cut |
Corky Ehlers , Benjamin A. Weissman |
| occupation | |
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Wildes Land (original title Return to Lonesome Dove ) is an American , the genres Western and film drama , four-part miniseries from 1993 , the individual titles of which are The Vision , Between the Fronts , Legacy and Death in Montana . Directed by Mike Robe and written by John Wilder .
action
Captain Woodrow F. Call serves with the Texas Rangers and is recognized for bravery. He wants to return to his farm in Montana . Call, Gideon Walker, Isom Pickett and some Mexicans travel there and drive a herd of wild horses. On the way a gang ambushes the trek, injuring Call. Indians give him shelter.
Meanwhile, the rancher Gregor Dunnigan meets Newt Dobbs, with whom he befriends. He becomes a father figure for Dobbs. It turns out that Woodrow F. Call is the father of Dobbs. Dobbs is arrested after a shootout, but Dunnigan frees him. The childless Dunnigan offers Dobbs to appoint him as heir. Together with Dobbs, he takes advantage of a cattle theft to set up a vigilante group in Montana - he hopes to achieve a strong position of power in the state. Meanwhile, Clara Allen accuses Call of being too cowardly to care for his own son. Call leaves his house to her and her children and sleeps outdoors.
It turns out that Agostina Vega, who lives on the farm, is the daughter of a woman who Call earlier accidentally killed. He speaks to her and makes her his business partner.
Clara Allen and her relatives are ambushed during an excursion, and Allen is injured. Call and his people catch the assassin and interrogate him before killing him. Meanwhile, Dunnigan and his vigilantes roam the country; they shoot a man whom they accuse of stealing cattle. Dobbs prevents the shooting of the man's underage son at the last moment.
Call accuses Dunnigan of being behind the assassination attempt on Clara Allen. Allen's house burns down. Call fights Dunnigan.
Reviews
The lexicon of international films wrote that the miniseries "followed on from the adventurous stories of the western" Lonesome Dove "" .
Cinema magazine used terms such as “Epic Wild West Adventure with Top Stars” , “Exciting insight into the pioneering days of the USA” and “Star-studded epic about America's early days” .
The magazine TV direkt 3/2008 described the mini-series as a "great cast of Western pictures" .
Awards
John Wilder won the Western Writers of America's Spur Award and the Western Heritage Award in 1994 . Kees Van Oostrum was nominated for an Emmy in 1994 for camera work in the second part and won the American Society of Cinematographers Award . The sound editing of the first part was nominated for the Cinema Audio Society Award in 1994.
backgrounds
The miniseries was filmed in Montana and Texas .
Web links
- Wild land in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wild Land. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Cinema (1), accessed January 31, 2008
- ↑ Cinema (2), accessed January 31, 2008
- ↑ Cinema (3), accessed January 31, 2008
- ↑ TV direkt 3/2008, page 56
- ↑ Filming locations for Return to Lonesome Dove, accessed January 31, 2008