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Der Rebell von Kalifornien

Originaltitel: The Man Behind the Gun
  • 1953
  • 12
  • 1 Std. 22 Min.
IMDb-BEWERTUNG
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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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    6ma-cortes

    Randolph Scott Western containing noisy action , shootouts , a climatic confrontation on the final , twists and turns

    It is good action entertainment for those who like their westerns action filled. An Easy-Going Gent with Deadly Guns...and a Reputation to Match! This undemanding western in which a counterespionage agent attempts to discover who's behind a Southern conspiracy , as it is plenty of suspense as the dreaded final attack . This exciting picture tells the story of an upright officer , Randolph Scott , who gives a perfect acting in his usual stoic style . A nice Western with frantic action , intrigues , thrills , fights , crossfire , suspense , wonderful outdoors , all of them keep things lively . Here Randolph Scott goes undercover to find a ring of treacherous rebels who are working in cahoots with the Confederacy and posing as a schoolteacher . As undercover government agent Ransome Callicut (Randolph Scott) arrives in 1850's South California . As he gradually gains trust the townsfolks to uncover their plans and reveal the dark objectives ; then he discovers a hidden cache of rifles . Aided by his underlings : Monk Walker (Dick Wesson) and Olaf Swenson (Alan Hale Jr) he fights political assassination and other adventures to unmask the ringleader of the plot and keep the Golden State in the Union . Along the way , he falls in love for a gorgeous woman , Lora Roberts (Patrice Wymore), who is already engaged with a cavalry officer , Capt. Roy Giles (Philip Carey) .

    Well made film, though not outstanding , I loved the scenery and the cinematography by expert director of photography Bert Glennon is beautiful. It also has strong direction, a charming music score from David Buttolph that compliments the film perfectly, an attractive story with an interesting structure and themes and sharp dialogue. However, while it is not an exceptional movie it is a very acceptable and enjoyable one, and I also think overrrated . Not that it's a bad film, but a fairly routine western which even kind of gives away who the inside man is way too early in the film. This agreeable tale is almost rudimentary though a few clichés , containing an interesting as well as stirring screenplay by John Twist , based on a story by Robert Buckner . Being breathtakingly photographed in Technicolor ; In addition , good pacing is also at hand, and the cast are great . Randolph Scott has done better work perhaps, but still gives an engaging performance. Randolph Scott gives a decent acting in his usual style as the undercover army officer to gather intelligence about an insurrectionist plot to have the southern part of the state secede to become a slave state , subsequently revealing his true identity and assuming command of the local army post. Nice supporting actors largely hang around waiting for something to do , and with plenty of familiar faces , such as : Dick Wesson , Philip Carey , Lina Romay , Roy Roberts , Alan Hale Jr , Morris Ankrum , Douglas Fowley , Katherine Warren and Anthony Caruso.

    Furthermore , a moving and rousing musical score by the classical composer David Buttolph . As well as glimmering and shimmering photography by Bert Glennon , shot in studios and exteriors from Bell Ranch, Santa Susana, California . This thrilling chronicle of espionage and counter-espionage during the American Civil War was decently directed by Felix F. Feist . It is a typical Western professionally directed with lavish production design and enough budget . At his beginning Felix Feist entered the Hollywood film industry, obtaining work as a writer, and producer , before finally becoming a director , filmmaking several Shorts and documentary . His first feature films were : All by Myself and You're a Lucky Fellow, Mr. Smith . After that , he made a lot of films of all kinds of genres , getting hits and flops ; such as : ¨Deluge¨, ¨George White's scandals¨, ¨The Winner's Circle¨ , ¨The reckless age¨, ¨The devil thumbs a ride¨, ¨The Golden Gloves Story¨, ¨The threat¨, ¨Guilty of treason¨ , ¨The Basketball Fix ¨, ¨Tomorrow is another day¨, ¨The Man Who Cheated Himself¨. And his two greatest successes : ¨Big trees¨and ¨Donovan's brain¨.
    BrianDanaCamp

    Vigorous Randolph Scott western with unusual setting

    THE MAN BEHIND THE GUN (listed as 1952 in Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide) is a Warner Bros. western starring Randolph Scott and set in Los Angeles, California in the early 1850s. The script is okay, the pace is fast and it has a large, colorful cast. There are a number of interesting elements in it that are worth noting. The Southern California setting enables the script to name-check landmarks in the area: San Pedro, Santa Monica and the LaBrea Tar Pits—which two characters visit at one point. (No sightings of woolly mammoths, though.) They even mention San Luis Obispo, which is further up the coast. The plot involves manipulation of the water supply to L.A. with a corrupt politician trying to take control of it. As such, it looks forward to Roman Polanski's CHINATOWN (1974), 22 years later. There's even a direct casting connection. The actor who plays a California senator here, Roy Roberts, plays L.A.'s mayor in CHINATOWN.

    There are two significant Latino characters. One is female nightclub owner Chona Degnon, played by singer Lina Romay. She's the film's resident femme fatale and she tries to recruit Scott to help out with her gun-running sideline. She sings a couple of numbers, too. Some of you may remember her from her delightful live-action cameo in Tex Avery's cartoon, "Señor Droopy" (1950). The other Latino character is famed California bandit and folk hero Joaquin Murietta, well played by Robert Cabal, an actor I'm otherwise unfamiliar with. Other movies have been made about Murietta, including the TV movie, "Desperate Mission" (1971), starring Ricardo Montalban. Murietta is seen here on the cusp of his outlaw career and he becomes an ally of the hero. He's quite handy with both guns and knives and kills seven opponents, often quite casually.

    The cast includes Patrice Wymore (looking quite beautiful) as the fiancée of a military officer (Philip Carey) assigned to work with Scott. She soon finds herself falling for Scott, an undercover officer sent by Washington to put down a planned secessionist revolt. Wymore and Romay have a pretty convincing catfight at one point. Dick Wesson and Alan Hale Jr. (taking up where his dad, a longtime Warners contract player, left off) play ex-soldiers who'd served with Scott in the Mexican War and who act as his reluctant sidekicks here. They provide much of the (forced) comic relief. Dependable heavy Morris Ankrum has too small a part as a die-hard secessionist. Other dependable heavies in the cast include Douglas Fowley and Anthony Caruso.

    It's all mostly shot on studio sets, with location work saved for the action finale—a spectacular raid on the water pirates' camp. In a few sequences, the film uses stock footage culled from an earlier Warner Technicolor western. IMDb says it was SAN ANTONIO (1945). I'm more inclined to say it was DODGE CITY (1939)—and it's quite possible that the footage used in SAN ANTONIO was indeed taken from DODGE CITY as well. If anyone wants to watch all three of these films back-to-back just to get this straight, be my guest.

    This isn't the best Randolph Scott western I've ever seen, but it's certainly above average for him.
    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.
    5FightingWesterner

    L.A. Confidential

    Supposed killer and Army deserter Randolph Scott heads to Los Angeles sometime before the Civil War. Posing as a schoolteacher who can't shoot straight, he gets knee-deep in some intrigue involving a group of separatists, the assassination of a US senator, and their attempts to split California into free and slave states.

    Costumes and sets are lavish and there's lots of great old-California atmosphere. However, The Man Behind The Gun is disappointingly routine. It's really too bad, because this is really one handsome production!

    The actors are game and some of their characters are quite colorful. The filmmakers should have pumped a little more action and suspense into the script, or trimmed the final product to about an hour.
    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.

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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)
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    • Sprache
      • Englisch
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      • 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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