(Der Teufelshauptmann | La charge heroïque)
by John Ford
USA 1949
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Director:
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John Ford | |
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Producer:
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John Ford, Merian C. Cooper | |
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Production Companies:
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Argosy Pictures / RKO Radio | |
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Screenplay:
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Frank S. Nugent, Laurence Stallings (from stories by James Warner Bellah: The Big Hunt, War Party) | |
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Cinematographer:
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Winton C. Hoch, A.S.C. Charles P. Boyle (second unit), Archie Stout (second unit, uncredited) (Technicolor, 1.37:1) |
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Editor:
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Jack Murray | |
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Music Score:
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Richard Hageman | |
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Art Director:
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James Basevi | |
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Set Director:
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Joseph Kish | |
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Sound:
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Clem Portman, Frank Webster; Patrick Kelley (effects) | |
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Cast:
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John Wayne (Nathan Brittles), Joanne Dru (Olivia Dandridge), John Agar (Ltn. Flint Cohill), Ben Johnson (Sgt Tyree), Harry Carey jr. (Leutnant Pennell), Victor McLaglen (Sgt. Quincannon), Mildred Natwick (Mrs. Abby Allshard), Arthur Shields (Dr. O'Laughlin), George O'Brien (Major Mack Allshard), Francis Ford (Barman), Chief John Big Tree (Pony That Walks) | |
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Runtime:
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103 min | |
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Premiere:
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22 October 1949 (USA) | |
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Awards:
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Academy Awards 1950, Oscar Best Cinematography/Color: Winton C. Hoch |
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"Arguably Ford's most extraordinary use of color, arguably John Wayne's best performance, inarguably one of Ford's greatest masterworks. ... The film that Lindsay Anderson calls 'one continual visual delight'."
— Pacific Film Archive "A film of both elegiac sentiment and occasionally over-eloquent sentimentality". "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon is a film of twilight. ... One is struck by how little riding there is ..., how courageously Ford discards the glamour of the 'pony soldiers' to suggest instead their human weaknesses. The film's most moving scenes relate vitally to the nature of the ground, and by implication to the moral significance of the valley." "The palpable feel of grit and guts is transposed into the purely iconic, icons stunningly recreating the colors and movement of Remington ..., visually actual and executed with bold romantic panache ..." |
Warner NTSC Region 1 vs. Kinowelt PAL Region 2
R1 screenshots courtesy by Gary Tooze / dvdbeaver.com
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Distribution:
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Warner Home Video Region 1 (North America) |
Kinowelt Home Entertainment Region 2 (Germany) |
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Runtime:
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103:03 min | 99:22 min (+ 4% PAL Speedup = 103 min) | |
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Video:
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1.33:1/4:3 FullScreen Average Bitrate: 5.10 mb/s NTSC 720x480 29.97 f/s |
1.33:1/4:3 FullScreen Average Bitrate: 5.64 mb/s PAL 720x576 25.00 f/s Colour saturation and contrast are a bit crisper on the Kinowelt transfer Both transfers use the superb master restored by the UCLA Film and Television Archive |
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Audio:
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English Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono Français Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono |
English Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono Deutsch Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono |
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Subtitles:
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English, Français, Español, Português • Closed captioned | Deutsch (removable) | |
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Features:
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• Exclusive John Ford Home Movie, a montage of clips shot while Ford and Wayne scouted for locations in Mexico (ca. 4:00 min) • Cast & Crew • John Ford & John Wayne Production Notes • Awards • Theatrical Trailer of later re-release • Weblinks |
• Interview with John Ford (by Philip Jenkinson, 1968, 1.33:1, English DD 2.0 Mono, optional German subtitles, 65:26 min, 5.45 mb/s) • German Theatrical Trailer (02:22 min) • 3 Bonus Trailers: Fort Apache (German, 02:07 min), Rio Grande (US, 01:32 min), The Quiet Man (German, 02:25 min) • Text Tables “Screenplay Writing with John Ford" by Frank S. Nugent (in German) • Production Notes • 4-pages Booklet with Production Notes |
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DVD Release Date: 4 June 2002 Snap Case Chapters: 31 DVD Encoding: NTSC Region 1 SS-SL/DVD-5 |
DVD Release Date: 31 October 2000 Keep Case Chapters: 21 DVD Encoding: PAL Region 2 SS-DL/DVD-9 |
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Also available from Edition Montparnasse in France (same transfer as in Germany) and Universal in the UK (different, mediocre transfer):
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Frame 1: Menu
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Frame 2
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Frame 3
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Average Bitrate Region 1:
5.10 mb/s
Average Bitrate Region 2:
5.64 mb/s
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Last update: 20 Sep 2002