The Villain (1979 film)

Cactus Jack is an American western comedy starring Kirk Douglas and Arnold Schwarzenegger from the year 1979.

Action

Cactus is an unsuccessful crook who does not always achieved what he would like. Whether he wants to jump on moving trains or rob banks. Nothing seems to succeed. In the latter, he gets caught when he blows up half the store instead of a bank safe in the air and a grid blocking his escape. In prison he receives from Avery Simpson offered the chance to gain his freedom, if he does a little job for him. A business partner Simpsons, Parody Jones has pledged his mine as security for a loan to him. To trigger this pledge, he must repay the loan to Simpson. But this would rather have the more profitable mine, which is why he wants to avoid using Cactus Jack that the loan is repaid.

Meanwhile, the muscular cowboy Schonchen stranger has entered the city, waiting for Parodys daughter, Charming Jones to bring both she and Jones money safe passage home. Charming, however, is interested in rather for his muscles and flirts Schonchen to permanent and is always puzzled how naive and blind this seems to be.

With the help of the book Badmen of the West itself cactus makes in order to pursue them and to tear the transported money itself. But his ideas are so creative too, nothing seems to work, and both Schonchen and Charming as well as the money remains far from him. He tried going to attack the two to stick to roll over with rocks or to ride with the help of the Indians, who are not even in a position reasonably to hunt them. None of this works out, and Cactus Jack finally throw his book away and says that he will never again try to copy gunslingers like Jesse James, Doc Holliday and Billy the Kid.

In a final attempt Cactus Jack used explosives to blow up the cabin after the arrival of Schonchen and Charming in the air. But even this does not work, and he blows himself up almost even in air, his horse Whiskey had he not been promoted before with a good kick out of hiding. So brute force must be found, and with drawn Colt calls Cactus Jack not only the money but also Charming to show her how they would treat a real man. This, frustrated by Schönchens naivety and cold, also raises immediately kissing around his neck.

Background

  • The film some scenes copied from the Road Runner cartoons are known from the Looney Tunes. Such is the scene in which Cactus Jack paints a tunnel on a mountain, where only his alleged victim can go through, copied while it is running against the rocks.
  • The damsel in distress that brought Schonchen stranger on the street will hurt later " Dr. Engelberg & Maslansky " brought. So hot, the two producers of the film.
  • Charmin ', the song was written by Bobby Jones Charming Cannan, Doug Starr, Bob Younts, Jimmy Darrell and sung by Mel Tillis.
  • Also Handsome Stranger, the song Schonchen stranger, played by Mel Tillis, while it was written by Jimmy Darrell and Joe Smartt.
  • In one scene in Terminator 2 - Judgment Day Terminator, John and Sarah Connor go into a rest area, which bears the name " Cactus Jack".
  • The horse of the chieftain has painted a yellow- drawn swastika, a so-called Swastika below the neck.

Criticism

The film received negative to scathing reviews. The website Rotten Tomatoes was one of 7 evaluated film reviews 0 positive and also the general public was adjusted towards the film rather negative, because in parallel evaluated by 5,195 users only 41% of this movie is positive ( as at 23 April 2011) Even in contemporary criticism the film was not received less negative. So Janet Maslin wrote in the New York Times that the film would be as silly as not wanting to end ( Which is almost as dopey as it is interminable ). She criticized above all, Arnold Schwarzenegger, who had a greater burden for the film as he could lift himself (As for Mr. Schwarzenegger, he's more of a weight on the movie than even he might also be able to lift. ). However, they also praised the stunts of the then 62 -year-old Kirk Douglas ( Mr. Douglas does a lot of stunts, some of them reasonably good ).

" Completely unoriginal comedy that is able to save neither the star cast nor the backdrop of Monument Valley. "

" Disk genre spoof that buried themselves."

"The idea of Arnold Schwarzenegger in cowboy outfit is so unusual that you can" Cactus Jack " alone seen it, or must have discussed. [ ... ] Otherwise, it's a wacky Road Runner implementation, in the otherwise so highly respected Kirk Douglas herumkaspert on silliest and his best are to be Wiley E. Coyote. For Schwarzenegger fans remember, but skippable, Douglas fans a must! "

" Thomas Dannenberg endeavors in the German dubbing, although still partly to beat a little pun in the plate- Western comedy, is so out on a limb but alone. The principle of a real comics to film, was in any case largely wrong. Perhaps due to the well-known cast out of interest consumable, but hardly anything for entertaining 80 minutes. The awkward and unfortunate Kirk Douglas is making itself rather completely to the monkey while Arni feels a little uncomfortable in his role. But in his subsequent films, he should also be less noticeable by his acting abilities then yes. The little worth listening to country music and the antiquated knitting technology do the rest Certainly not a second time. "

Publication

After the film on 20 July 1979, his movie premiere in the United States, it was published in West Germany on 17 January 1980 in the cinemas. And since 11 June 2002, the film on DVD is available.

1979 in film Hal Needham Screenplay Film score Ann-Margret Thomas Danneberg
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