Young Guns

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Movie
German title Young Guns
Original title Young Guns
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1988
length 102 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Christopher Cain
script John Fusco
production Christopher Cain
Joe Roth
John Fusco
James G. Robinson
music Anthony Marinelli
Brian Banks
camera Dean Semler
cut Jack Hofstra
occupation
chronology

Successor  →
Blaze of Glory - Flaming Glory

Young Guns (alternative long title: Young Guns - they fear neither death nor the devil) is an American western from 1988 that deals with a story about Billy the Kid and his gang.

action

Lincoln County , New Mexico Territory , 1877: Born in England, cattle farmer John Tunstall takes in young drifter William H. Bonney, known as Billy, before he gets into a gunfight in Lincoln. On his farm, Tunstall offers homeless and uneducated young men in particular a home if they work for him as cowboys in return. Billy quickly fits into the group of Dick Brewer, Doc Scurlock , Chavez , Charlie Bowdre and Dirty Steve Stevens. Tunstall's greatest competitor is the unscrupulous Irish-born LG Murphy, who, as the head of the powerful Murphy-Dolan group, claims the pastureland of Tunstall ( Lincoln County Cattle War ). After the New Year celebrations in 1878, Tunstall was ambushed by Murphy's cowboys on his way home to his farm.

Under the influence of Tunstall's attorney and friend, Alexander McSween, Billy and the others are named deputy sheriffs of Lincoln County. To do this, they are given the task of arresting those involved in the Tunstall murder in order to bring them to justice. Led by their eldest, Dick Brewer, the “ regulators ” want to arrest Henry Hill first. But Billy, who takes the murder of his protector personally, shoots Hill when he is arrested, which leads to a firefight with his friends, several of whom are also killed. After other actions are similar and Billy has also shot a regulator who actually turned out to be one of Murphy's spies, the group between him and Dick threatens to break up. It is only after Dick is killed in a shootout with bounty hunter Buckshot Roberts that Billy is the undisputed leader of the group. Under his leadership, the regulators begin a campaign of revenge against Murphy and his people. The murder of the Lincoln County Sheriff, who was one of Murphy's men, marks their final breach of the law and they are now the hunted themselves. Only McSween is ready to support their cause with legal means, and he stands up for them.

After learning from their friend Pat Garrett that McSween will be Murphy's next victim, the regulators rush to Lincoln to rescue him. Once there, they realize that they have run into a trap, because the McSween house is immediately surrounded by Murphy's outlaws after their arrival, who are even supported by a unit of the US cavalry . In the exchange of fire that is now beginning, Chavez manages to break away, the others have to barricade themselves in the house. After the besiegers set the house on fire, Billy and his friends decide to break out. In the apparently hopeless fight that follows, Billy is wounded. But to his surprise, Chavez returns with three horses, one of which Billy can mount and escape. Charlie Bowdre is mortally wounded in a duel with the outlaw John Kinney , but not without killing him himself. Doc Scurlock is also wounded, but Dirty Steve puts him on one of the horses that save him. Steve himself is also shot and McSween is downright executed by the US cavalry with a Gatling bolt-action gun . When the fight seems to be over, Billy returns and kills Murphy with his Colt with a shot in the head from a distance.

After their successful escape, Billy, Doc and Chavez split up and each goes their own way.

synchronization

The German dubbing was done on behalf of Berliner Synchron GmbH , for the dialogue direction and was responsible for Andreas Pollak.

role actor German speaker
Billy the Kid Emilio Estevez Nicolas Boell
'Doc' Josiah Gordon Scurlock Kiefer Sutherland Tobias Master
Jose Chavez y Chavez Lou Diamond Phillips Torsten Sense
Richard 'Dick' Brewer Charlie Sheen Benjamin Völz
Charles 'Charlie' Bowdre Casey Siemaszko Stefan Krause
'Dirty Steve' Stephens Dermot Mulroney Sven Hasper
John Tunstall Terence Stamp Hans-Werner Bussinger
Lawrence G. Murphy Jack Palance Arnold Marquis
Alexander McSween Terry O'Quinn Till Hagen
Pat Garrett Patrick Wayne Helmut Gauss
Buckshot Roberts Brian Keith Kurt Goldstein

Awards

Christopher Cain (director) was nominated for the 1988 Critics' Award at the Deauville American Film Festival. The film itself received the Western Heritage Award in 1989 .

background

Production costs were approximately $ 13 million, and box office income in the US was just over $ 44 million.

Tom Cruise has a brief guest role. He plays a mustached participant in the shooting towards the end of the film.

In 1990 the sequel Blaze of Glory was produced.

Reviews

  • Online edition of prisma : "Young Guns is a cleverly calculated Western from the time when the Western was actually more dead than dead."
  • film-dienst : "Convincing only in its acting performances, the film takes on various influences of the genre, but without finding its own line."
  • TV Movie 24/05: "Recommended. [...] Action-packed, funny and tough as iron."

Film and historical facts

Although Young Guns is rather freely based on historical lore, the most important events of the Lincoln County Cattle War provide the background for the film plot. The conflict between the Murphy-Dolan and Tunstall-McSween groups, the Tunstall assassinations, the regulators' subsequent campaign of revenge including the murder of one of their member (McGloskey), Dick Brewer's death in the shooting with Buckshot Roberts, and the assassination of the sheriff of Lincoln (Brady). The plot of the film culminates in the final “Battle of Lincoln” (July 15-19, 1878). Nevertheless, the film allows itself some freedom in the interpretation and simplifications of historical reality, some of which should be mentioned here:

  • The gang of "regulators" is reduced to six people in the film, in fact there were more (see Lincoln County Regulators ).
  • Billy Bonney (Billy the Kid) is portrayed as the central leader of the regulators, while Doc Scurlock is put in the background. Indeed, after Dick Brewer's death, Frank McNab, who does not appear in the film, was elected to lead the group. After him, Scurlock took over leadership until the regulators were dissolved.
  • The film contains a fictional love story between Doc Scurlock and the Chinese Yen Sun (Alice Carter).
  • The Battle of Lincoln is simplified by reducing it to the battle for the McSween house. In fact, fighting took place in several parts of the city.
  • Charlie Bowdre survived the Battle of Lincoln and was not shot in a gun battle with Pat Garrett until 1880. Outlaw John Kinney also survived the battle and did not die until many years later.
  • LG Murphy also survived the battle, in which he was actually not involved for health reasons, but died the same year as a result of cancer.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Synchronkartei.de
  2. ↑ Young Guns economic data in the Internet Movie Database ( en )
  3. ^ Full cast and crew for Young Guns. Internet Movie Database , accessed September 22, 2008 .
  4. ↑ Young Guns. www.prisma-online.de, accessed on September 13, 2008 .
  5. ↑ Young Guns. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used