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Der Rebell von Kalifornien

Originaltitel: The Man Behind the Gun
  • 1953
  • 12
  • 1 Std. 22 Min.
IMDb-BEWERTUNG
6,0/10
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IHRE BEWERTUNG
Randolph Scott and Patrice Wymore in Der Rebell von Kalifornien (1953)
Klassischer WesternDramaWestern

Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuAn undercover government agent battles insurrectionists who want Southern California to secede and become a slave state.An undercover government agent battles insurrectionists who want Southern California to secede and become a slave state.An undercover government agent battles insurrectionists who want Southern California to secede and become a slave state.

  • Regie
    • Felix E. Feist
  • Drehbuch
    • John Twist
    • Robert Buckner
  • Hauptbesetzung
    • Randolph Scott
    • Patrice Wymore
    • Dick Wesson
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    6,0/10
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    • Regie
      • Felix E. Feist
    • Drehbuch
      • John Twist
      • Robert Buckner
    • Hauptbesetzung
      • Randolph Scott
      • Patrice Wymore
      • Dick Wesson
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    Randolph Scott
    Randolph Scott
    • Major Ransome Callicut
    Patrice Wymore
    Patrice Wymore
    • Lora Roberts
    Dick Wesson
    Dick Wesson
    • Sgt. 'Monk' Walker
    Philip Carey
    Philip Carey
    • Capt. Roy Giles
    Lina Romay
    Lina Romay
    • Chona Degnon
    Roy Roberts
    Roy Roberts
    • Sen. Mark Sheldon
    Morris Ankrum
    Morris Ankrum
    • Bram Creegan
    Katherine Warren
    Katherine Warren
    • Phoebe Sheldon
    • (as Katharine Warren)
    Alan Hale Jr.
    Alan Hale Jr.
    • Cpl. Olaf Swenson
    Douglas Fowley
    Douglas Fowley
    • Buckley
    Anthony Caruso
    Anthony Caruso
    • Vic Sutro
    • (as Tony Caruso)
    Clancy Cooper
    Clancy Cooper
    • 'Kansas' Collins
    Robert Cabal
    Robert Cabal
    • Joaquin Murietta
    Nestor Amaral
    • Musician
    • (Nicht genannt)
    Emile Avery
    • Henchman
    • (Nicht genannt)
    Trevor Bardette
    Trevor Bardette
    • Sheldon's Henchman at Hideout
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    Gregg Barton
    Gregg Barton
    • Henchman Luke
    • (Nicht genannt)
    George Bell
    George Bell
    • Trooper
    • (Nicht genannt)
    • Regie
      • Felix E. Feist
    • Drehbuch
      • John Twist
      • Robert Buckner
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    7bkoganbing

    A Serious Mission

    The Man Behind The Gun is a Randolph Scott western with Randy on a most serious mission. He's going undercover in southern California just before the Civil War to prevent a secessionist plot from taking California out of the union or at a very least splitting off southern California as a separate state for the southern Confederacy to be.

    Scott's only got two allies from his previous army service Alan Hale,Jr., and Dick Wesson whom he can rely on. The situation is such that he can't tell who's on what side, least of all the army commander in the Los Angeles area, Philip Carey.

    The film boasts a top notch cast of players that include Roy Roberts, Douglas Fowley, Anthony Caruso, Katharine Warren, Morris Ankrum, and as a young Joaquin Murietta, Robert Cabal. The two female leads are Patrice Wymore better known as the third Mrs. Errol Flynn and band singer Lina Romay who formally was with both the Xavier Cugar Orchestra and the Bing Crosby radio show at different times. Romay gets to sing a couple of sultry songs in Spanish. Also since this was a Warner Brothers film, Some Sunday Morning which was introduced in the Errol Flynn film San Antonio gets interpolated here.

    Telling you who the head of the secessionist group would spoil things, but I will say it's one very deadly individual.

    The Man Behind The Gun is a very good Randolph Scott western which would please his still devoted legion of fans.
    6Amos_Dundee

    OK, but strictly standard handling of good premise

    Randy is an army deserter (or is he?--not terribly original plot point but workable)involved with separatist gun runners out to control the water supply & thereby the whole of Southern California. The exact time frame is uncertain: after the Mexican War & before California became a state, General Zachary Taylor is mentioned (his picture hangs in Phil Carey's office) in the present tense but not his being president--so who knows & who cares. This isn't a history lesson; it's a Randolph Scott western where everybody carries a six-gun (even if at that time--most did not) and the Cavalry are wearing the completely wrong uniforms. Anyway, the first half sets up a decent premise and is pretty entertaining but once a certain cat is out of the bag so to speak it devolves into a very standard a rather dull outing for Randy. Patricia Wymore is very attractive & a decent actress. Phil Carey, Roy Roberts, Alan Hale, Jr., Douglas Fowley, Morris Ankrum and Anthony Caruso lend good support but the less said about Dick Wesson's more or less comedy relief role, the better. The script by John Twist has giant plot holes & is very clunky and Felix Feist's direction is alternately pedestrian and sloppy. Oh well, the Techincolor is quite nice. All I really ask from a Randy Scott western is to be entertained, this one only got me halfway there.
    Mozjoukine

    Mundane handling of lively elements makes this Randolph Scott western dull going.

    All the things that made the Scott movies the most agreeable matine fare are present - an opening shoot out in foggy San Francisco streets, a stage hold up, historical plotting about stealing the L.A. water supply (well before CHINATOWN), false identity, opening an empty grave and hard riding and shoot outs in the great out of doors. On top of that it's delivered in Technicolor by some of Warners' most assured technicians, complete with stock shots from the Flynn movies and snatches of earlier Warner scores.

    The reason it's so mechanical must be the routine direction of Felix Feist who fades away as Scott takes on sure hands Andre de Toth and Budd Boetticher as directors. The scene with Lina Ronay against the studio sky is particularly lack lustre. Randy grins his way through events and is doubled in the final river punch out while villain Roy Roberts does his own stunts - like I mean - really!
    7hitchcockthelegend

    He wasn't born, he was issued!

    Randolph Scott is Major Ransome Callicut, who goes undercover as a school teacher in 1850s California to hopefully thwart separatist plotting as secessionist fervour starts to boil over.

    The Man Behind The Gun is directed by Felix E. Feist and adapted to screenplay by John Twist from a story by Robert Buckner. It is shot in Technicolor by Bert Glennon (Wagon Master) out of Bell Ranch, Santa Susana, California. Joining Scott in the cast are Patrice Wymore, Dick Wesson, Philip Carey, Lina Romay & Alan Hale Jr.

    It's true enough that material such as this, well more the themes and basic story, deserves a better movie than what this ultimately is. Yet to shout down this film for not being a finely tuned politico piece is a touch harsh one feels. This is after all, a modestly budgeted Oater out of Warner Brothers that comes at a time when Randolph Scott was knocking out Oaters for both WB and Columbia at a rate of knots! Scott was three years away from starting a run of films with Budd Boetticher that would finally realise his talents, whilst simultaneously giving the serious Western fan some gems to shout about from the saloon rooftops. So where does The Man Behind The Gun sit in the pantheon of 50s Westerns? Well a better director than Felix Feist would have helped since the material called for someone interested in the more psychological aspects of the characters. The afore mentioned Boetticher is a given of course, while another of Scott's 50s directors, André De Toth, would have enjoyed the intrigue and underhand core for sure.

    Still, given its short running time, Feist does manage to craft an action packed movie that's led by Scott's protagonist playing it rugged, sneaky and tough to get the job in hand done. There's gun fights, whip-cracking, chases, explosions; and even pretty gals scrapping it out in a crash of chairs, tables and pottery. For an 82 minute movie it doesn't fall short as an action piece. If viewed on those terms it holds up very well, even if there's so much going on it can be hard to follow at times. There's even nice dashes of humour, none more so than with the entertaining turn from Wesson. Be it whipping off some saloon gal's dress or playing it in drag, his Sergeant 'Monk' Walker gives the piece a lift when it threatens to be bogged down by good guy-bad guy character turns that come and go all too frequently. Scott is as ever straight backed and as cool as a cucumber, while Hale Jr, Carey and Wymore each leave a favourable impression.

    Yes it could have been a deep and potent piece, but that it's not does not make it a bad film. It's a ripper of an action movie backed up by a couple of strong turns from Scott & Wesson, even if the film that surrounds them is just a little chaotic at times! 7/10
    5tonypeacock-1

    The Man Behind The Confusion

    I had to resume this film from the beginning at the fifty minute mark because I was getting so confused with the plot strands. There seemed so many! Who were the good guys, who were the bad guys all that kind of thing because it was so confusing. To me anyway! It's a good job the film had only a modest running time to allow this to be practicable.

    It's a shame because there was some good work that went into this film from both the cast and the crew. There are elements of humour, action, romantic scenes. Good location photography and sound. Some good performances from the supporting cast as well.

    It's definitely a film that has to be watched if you are going to seriously explore the Randolph Scott movies because he had such a filmography.

    I suppose the film did remind me of some plot in future Hollywood output from films as varied as A Few Good Men (1992) when a character talks about duty and it's importance in the army and the control of the Californian water supply reminded me of the James Bond film Quantum Of Solace (2008) albeit that was Bolivia.

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    • Wissenswertes
      The scene where Randolph Scott (Callicut) is chasing Roy Roberts (Sheldon) and jumps onto Sheldon's horse, and the white horse carrying the two men runs off the end of a damaged bridge and falls head first into a river, was actually a scene from the WB film Ein Mann der Tat (1945).
    • Patzer
      The film is set in 1850s. Most, if not all, of the firearms employed in the film post-date the American Civil War (1861-1865). Examples include Colt Single-Action Army revolvers and various lever-action rifles that first appear in the 1870s.
    • Zitate

      Major Ransome Callicut: [as voiceover narrator] Los Angeles - thirty difficult miles from San Pedro. Here in the tropical sun it was hard to believe that the City of Angels had its share of unholy activities.

    • Verbindungen
      Features Ein Mann der Tat (1945)
    • Soundtracks
      Some Sunday Morning
      (uncredited)

      Music by M.K. Jerome and Ray Heindorf

      Lyrics by Ted Koehler

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    • Erscheinungsdatum
      • 24. November 1954 (Westdeutschland)
    • Herkunftsland
      • Vereinigte Staaten
    • Sprache
      • Englisch
    • Auch bekannt als
      • The Man Behind the Gun
    • Drehorte
      • Bell Ranch, Santa Susana, Kalifornien, USA
    • Produktionsfirma
      • Warner Bros.
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      • 2.000.000 $
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      • 1 Std. 22 Min.(82 min)
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