Other times, different customs. This also applies to the representation of the violence of films: what appeared incredibly cruel on the screen in 1954 is sometimes tame today. In the case of Western Vera Cruz, however, this judgment seems doubtful. Even if no heads fly around the area, the shock of the audience at the time is understandable. 15 years later, other films should be based on Vera Cruz and write the last chapters of the Western. The masterpiece is available at Amazon Prime.
At Amazon Prime: a western that the criticism condemned as a “sadistic show”
Vera Cruz plays at the time of French intervention in Mexico in the 1860s. A group of American mercenaries around Trane (Gary Cooper) and Erin (Burt Lancaster) is said to bring a young countess to the port city of Vera Cruz. But on the way Discover what your client is actually planning. And rethink their loyalities.
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Vera Cruz Trailer (German) HD
According to today’s standards, Robert Aldrich’s film (the dirty dozen) may not be particularly bloody, but can still disturb with its atmosphere of cynicism and brutality. At that time critics: Inside, this atmosphere hit like a shock: the New York Times about condemned the film as “sadistic show“Full”senseless violence“.
Some moments also become today’s spectators: shock inside. For example, if Lancaster’s figure threatens to kill minor hostages, his conscientiousness also has an immense effect 71 years later.
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In the next 15 years, directors such as Sergio Leone, Sergio Corbucci or Sam Peckinpah should take up the ideas of Vera Cruz and lead them to their logical end: Peckinpahs The Wild Bunch – they knew no law, a distant relative of Aldrich’s film, is one Such more masterful and bloody song on myth and morality of the Wild West, that the entire genre then had not much to say for many fans.
This article was first published in a similar form in December 2023 at Moviepilot.