Der Stern des Gesetzes

Originaltitel: The Tin Star

1957
12
1 Std. 33 Min.

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

7,3/10

6871

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Henry Fonda, Anthony Perkins, and Betsy Palmer in Der Stern des Gesetzes (1957)

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Classical Western Western

Ein zynischer ehemaliger Sheriff, der zum Kopfgeldjäger wurde, hilft einem jungen, kürzlich ernannten stellvertretenden Sheriff mit seinem Rat, seiner Erfahrung und seiner Waffe.Ein zynischer ehemaliger Sheriff, der zum Kopfgeldjäger wurde, hilft einem jungen, kürzlich ernannten stellvertretenden Sheriff mit seinem Rat, seiner Erfahrung und seiner Waffe.Ein zynischer ehemaliger Sheriff, der zum Kopfgeldjäger wurde, hilft einem jungen, kürzlich ernannten stellvertretenden Sheriff mit seinem Rat, seiner Erfahrung und seiner Waffe.

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IMDb-BEWERTUNG

7,3/10

6871

IHRE BEWERTUNG

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Für 1 Oscar nominiert
- 2 Nominierungen insgesamt

Wissenswertes
James Stewart was originally supposed to play Morgan Hickman.

Patzer
In the opening scene, Hickman rides into town with a " body" on his pack horse. The dead man's arm is exposed, show bulging veins. This was obviously a live stunt man or an extra. Dead men don't have bulging veins. No heart beat, no blood pressure.

Zitate
Morg Hickman: A decent man doesn't want to kill, but if you're gonna shoot, you shoot to kill.
Sheriff Ben Owens: How about hittin' them in the arm?
Morg Hickman: That hokey-pokey'll get you killed fast. There're a lot of guys bragging about shooting a gun out of somebody's hand. They're lying. They shot to kill. A wounded man can still kill you.
Sheriff Ben Owens: *You* did it.
Morg Hickman: Huh?
Sheriff Ben Owens: With Bogardus. You hit his gun.
Morg Hickman: That wasn't my fight, that was yours. I could take a chance.
Sheriff Ben Owens: What if you missed?
Morg Hickman: Aw, he'd have killed you, or I'd have had to kill him.

Verbindungen
Edited into Gli ultimi giorni dell'umanità (2022)

Soundtracks
For He's a Jolly Good Fellow
(uncredited)
Melody: "Marlbrough s'en va-t-en guerre"
Traditional

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8/10

You can master a gun if you got the knack. Harder to learn men.

It doesn't matter what the genre is, when the writing is great, then the film will usually be great also. This Oscar-nominated film had a superb script that made everything else look fantastic.

Henry Fonda is an ex-sheriff turned bounty hunter that appears in town to collect his reward. He has to wait until it comes, so he ends up befriending the town outcast - Betsy Palmer (before she became Jason's mom), a woman with a half-breed child, and helping the new Sheriff - Anthony Perkins, before he went Psycho and killed his mom.

Fonda gave a measured and stirring performance in a role that was supposed to go to Jimmy Stewart. In the process of helping others, he was able to find himself and turn his life around.

In a humorous scene old Doc McCord (John McIntire) had just delivered the 12th child to a farmer that lived in the sticks. It was 2:30 am and he leaned back to sleep in his carriage and told his horse to head home saying, "You probably know the way better than I do." Now, that is the kind of cruise control we don't have on our modern vehicles! A great film that shows how important writers are to the movies.