übefall of the Ogalalla – Wikipedia Wikipedia
Ogalalla raid (Original title: Western Union ) is an American western of the Austrian director Fritz Lang from 1941, who is on the novel The singing wire (Original title: Western Union ) based on Zane Gray.
America in 1861: Vance Shaw is on the run. On the way he loses his horse and has to continue the escape on foot. He meets a man and decides to steal his horse. But when he sees that the man is wounded, he drops his project. Vance helps the injured person who is head of the telegraph installation and is called Edward Creighton.
Healed by his injuries, Creighton hires some people, including Vance, to continue working on the lines. At work, the squad is attacked by Indians from Oglala, a lacota stem, one of the men is killed. Vance follows the attackers and finds out that they are white who have disguised themselves as Indians. Among them are some former friends of Vance. The group’s leader, Jack Slade, tells Vance that they work for the confederated work. They are supposed to disturb the Telegraph Society Western Union because it helps the enemy Union.
When Vance is back with his work force, this is attacked by (drunken) Indians again. Vance wrestles with an Indian who wants to steal a telescope. The Indian is then shot by Richard Blake, an engineer. The men learn that their main camp is also being attacked. They rush back to ward off the attack, but the Indians steal their horses.
The army reaches the city and reports that the Indian chief of the Ogalalla, contrary to an earlier agreement, is now refusing to have the telegraph line built by his country because his son was wounded by a whites. Furthermore, the Indians assumed that they were feared on the raids of white deserters by means of alcohol. Vance gets the news in the meantime that Slade wants to meet him again. On the way to the meeting point, he is captured by Slades men. Slade tells him that his men want to burn down the Western Union camp. Vance should not be able to intervene. After Slade and his men are gone, Vance can free himself, but he comes too late. When saving some men, he suffers burns on his hands.
After the extinguishing work, Creighton wants Vance to tell everything he knows. But Vance refuses and is then released. Before leaving the camp, he looks up Blake and confesses that Slade was his brother and that he now wanted to stop the gang. Vance rides into the city to find Slade. There is a shootout with Slade, with Vance being hindered by the burns on his hands. He succeeds in killing some gang members, but he is then shot by his brother himself. Blake, however, followed Vance and takes up the fight. It can be so badly wounded that he dies shortly afterwards. Finally, the men of the Western Union can celebrate the completion of the telegraph line. Creighton’s sister Sue mourns the loss of Vance Shaw.
The shot was shot in House Rock Canyon in Arizona and in the Zion National Park in Utah. The film was the second work on a western for Fritz Lang. His first western Revenge for Jesse James was created a year before. Overall, it was the sixth film that made long in the USA.
Lang liked to quote a letter in which former track workers confirmed that they had never seen the old west as authentically as in Ogalalla raid . [2] At the same time, long was surprised by this compliment because he had fictionalized the action around the construction of the telegraph line and the Indian robberies had completely invented them: “In reality, the main man was married to the construction of the telegraph line and had seven children – I turned out him a bachelor with a love story. In reality, there was hardly any great difficulties when building the line – if you dislike that the buffalo preferred to rub the fur on the telegraph masts, so that many masts soon overturned. ” [3]
- Zion National Park, Utah, USA
- House Rock Canyon, Arizona, USA
- Kanab, Utah, USA
- 20th Century Fox Studios – 10201 Pico Boulevard, Century City, Los Angeles, Kalifornien, USA
Duration: September 1940 – November 28, 1940 (58 days) and December 6, 1940 – December 13, 1940 (8 days) [4]
The film service described the film as a “[m] it routine and clear joy in the common ingredients of the genre staged entertaining staged Western, which in detail the author’s handwriting Fritz Langs can be recognized: at the narrative level it is an insoluble loyalty conflict, on the Opticals are the correspondence between the crosses of telegraph masts and graves as well as the peculiar tightness of the rooms and landscapes that actually counteract the genre. ” [5]
Phil Hardy noticed The Encyclopedia of Western Movies that the film is photographed in a way that avoids the “flatness of color”, which shaped many early Technicolor films. He has a “fatalistic tone” like many of Lang’s films. [6] The Evangelical film observer The conclusion was drawn: “A Western from Fritz Lang’s American period, which, in addition to moving fight scenes, is also rich in strange effects.” [7]
Enno Patalas noticed that Western Union The only film of Lang is in which an “open, flat room plays a constitutive role for the whole”. [3]
- Laird Cregar was originally occupied in this film in an indefinite role (possibly that of Doc Murdoch), but could not make the film due to an unfinished other project. He was replaced by George ‘Gabby’ Hayes, but Hayes then became sick and was replaced.
- In the studio advertising it was found that FOX contract star Henry Fonda had acted as a technical consultant for the film due to his experience as a management mechanic. Fonda’s “technical consulting capacity” was certainly an advertising, and in any case Fonda was not credited with the film.
- The $ 5,000, which the Western Union paid in 1860 for the buyback of its own stolen horses, would be worth more than $ 141,000, taking inflation into account in 2019.
- The first transcontinental telegraph line was completed on October 24, 1861 and connected the existing network in the east of the United States via a connection between Omaha, Nebraska and Carson City, Nevada, via Salt Lake City with a small network in California. It was a milestone in electrical engineering and the emergence of the United States of America. It was primarily the work of the WESTER Union Telegraph company (Western Union Telegraph Company), founded in 1956 in 1956.
- When he arrived in Omaha, Richard Blake (Robert Young) had a stranger to take care of his horse and car before entering a building. When Blake comes out, the man scolds him and tells him that he was the provisional governor of the Nebraska territory. Based on the fact that this happened in 1860 when the transcontinental telegraph management was built, this man was to represent Samuel Watson Black, who was unfortunately killed on June 27, 1862 during the American civil war.
- The cook in the film wants to return to Saint Joseph, Mo (Missouri). An interesting marginal note is that the starting point of the pony Express was in St. Joseph and was essentially eliminated by the Transcontinental Telegraph, which was led by the Western Union. [8]
- ↑ Education certificate for Ogalalla raid . Voluntary self -control of the film industry, June 2006 (PDF; test number: 106 451 DVD).
- ↑ Joe Hembus: Western-Lexikon-1272. Films from 1894–1975 . Carl Hanser Verlag Munich, Vienna 2nd edition 1977, ISBN 3-446-12189-7, p. 691.
- ↑ a b Dieter Dürrenmatt: Fritz Lang – life and work . Basel 1982, S. 132 .
- ↑ Reference for the entire chapter “Spirit and shooting time”: Western Union (1941) – IMDb. Retrieved on March 30, 2021 .
- ↑ Ogalalla raid. In: Lexicon of international film. Movie service, accessed on March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Phil Hardy: The Encyclopedia of Western Movies . Woodbury Press, Minneapolis 1984, ISBN 0-8300-0405-X, S. 125.
- ↑ Evangelical Press Association Munich, criticism No. 230/1949.
- ↑ Reference for entire chapter “Trivia”: Western Union (1941) – IMDb. Retrieved on March 30, 2021 .
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