GOLD SEEKERS OF ARKANSAS
Aka MASSACRE AT MARBLE CITY
(1965)
Directed by:Paul Martin
Starring: Brad Harris, Mario Adorf, Thomas Alder, Horst
Frank, Dorathee Parker,Marianne Hoppe, Olly
Schoberova (Olinka Berova), Carroll Brown
A good old West story about gold being discovered on
Indian lands and the greedy settlers who want it. Throw in card shark Mario
Adorf and his gang, a crooked Reverend, and you have everyone chasing everyone
else’s gold. Along comes Brad Harris as
a government agent who succeeds in saving at least some of the cast and
righting a few of the wrongs.
There is a huge wagon train, (Watch the scene in the
trailer where you see the wagon train in the background. You can see a few of
the wagons are cardboard cut-outs). If
you look past the obvious stereo types and just watch the story you will enjoy
a very good action movie with lots of extras and boisterous action sequences.
Especially if you watch the new German version on a big
screen.
I compared the old TV English version (1H 26M), (flat
screen), with the new German language version (1H 38 M), with English subs, LBX
and fantastic colour.
The new German version is much longer but there are
several scenes in wagon train camps that were taken out and clips here and
there to shorten it. The action scenes
are clipped because in the longer version the Indians ride and ride and keep on
riding for what seems like forever. That
was all clipped.
What I do is watch the good colour version on a big
screen and listen to the English version on another TV pausing here and there
until they match up. You will need both
copies to truly enjoy the film.
When you hear the English in one version and read the
English in the other, they appear to be two different scripts telling somewhat
different stories.
One shot shows a burning timber falling on Mario Adorf
during the final battle. I wonder if
that was an accident or intentional?
Larry
Anderson
DVD OVERSEER
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