Winds of the Wild
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Winds of the Wild |
| Original title | Winds of the Wasteland |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1936 |
| length | 54 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Mack V. Wright |
| script | Joseph F. Poland |
| production | Nat Levine |
| music | Harry Gray |
| camera | William Nobles |
| cut | Robert Jahns |
| occupation | |
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Winds of the Wilderness (alternatively: Storms in the Wild West ; original title: Winds of the Wasteland ) is the title of an American western from 1936 with John Wayne in the leading role. The film was shot in various locations in the US state of California . It was first published on July 6, 1936 in the USA .
action
America in 1861 : The Pony Express mail carrier ceases to operate as the transcontinental telegraph line is supposed to take over its duties. As a farewell, each of the riders receives two stallions from the stock as a present. The two colleagues and friends John Blair and Larry Adams decide to try their luck now with a carriage service. So they ride to Buchanan City, California , where they want to buy a carriage. They come across the businessman Cal Drake , who immediately cheats them: for an immensely high sum he sells them one of his carriage lines to Crescent City, including the corresponding carriage. Praised in an atlas as a flourishing city with 3,500 inhabitants, Crescent City turns out to be an abandoned ghost town in which only two old men live, while the coach has long since passed its prime.
However, from Rocky O'Brien , one of the two residents of the run-down city, the two learn of an upcoming race from Buchanan City to Sacramento , the winner of which beckons a government grant of 25,000 US dollars . Blair senses the great opportunity to more than make up for the financial loss. He registered the new line for the race. On the way back to Crescent City he has his first passenger: Barbara Forsythe , the daughter of the second remaining in Crescent City, Dr. William Forsythe . Various people, whom chance led through Crescent City, are gradually persuaded to stay. Blair also saves the life of a group of workers on the telegraph line and can knock out a connection for Crescent City, so that soon fifty workers can be brought to Crescent City. Together with the prospect of the postal contract out of the race, the city is beginning to flourish again.
Drake watches the development with envy and suspicion. He instructs his people to rob the carriage in a mask. Larry is shot and can only be prevented by the intervention of Dr. Forsythe to be saved. Blair, however, suspects an ambush and escapes the trap intended for him. An arson attack on the carriage and the horses by Drake's men also fails, but Blair is arrested under a pretext for having shot one of Drake's men in the attack. It almost looks like Blair will miss the race, but Dr. Forsythe provides the required deposit just in time . Although Blair started the race with a delay and had to defend himself against further attacks by Drake and his men on the way, he decided the race - not least because of the fast Pony Express horses - by a very small margin.
Others
The film was shown in Germany as part of the ZDF Western series Western von Yesterday , which was broadcast from May 1978 to July 1986. The series consists of westerns of the 1930s and 1940s, in which the films were divided into episodes of 25 minutes each or cut accordingly.
Web links
- Winds of wilderness in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Filming locations on IMDb , accessed on February 24, 2013
- ↑ Premiere dates on IMDb , accessed on February 24, 2013