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The Fiend Who Walked the West

  • 1958
  • Approved
  • 1h 41min
PUNTUACIÓN EN IMDb
6,4/10
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The Fiend Who Walked the West (1958)
DramaOccidentalThrillerWestern clásico

Añade un argumento en tu idiomaIn this western remake of El beso de la muerte (1947), a convicted bank robber serving his sentence, and wishing nothing more than to finish his time and get back to his family, gets involve... Leer todoIn this western remake of El beso de la muerte (1947), a convicted bank robber serving his sentence, and wishing nothing more than to finish his time and get back to his family, gets involved with a psychotic, homicidal inmate who turns on him and winds up terrorizing his wife an... Leer todoIn this western remake of El beso de la muerte (1947), a convicted bank robber serving his sentence, and wishing nothing more than to finish his time and get back to his family, gets involved with a psychotic, homicidal inmate who turns on him and winds up terrorizing his wife and murdering his friends.

  • Dirección
    • Gordon Douglas
  • Guión
    • Harry Brown
    • Philip Yordan
    • Ben Hecht
  • Reparto principal
    • Hugh O'Brian
    • Robert Evans
    • Dolores Michaels
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  • PUNTUACIÓN EN IMDb
    6,4/10
    291
    TU PUNTUACIÓN
    • Dirección
      • Gordon Douglas
    • Guión
      • Harry Brown
      • Philip Yordan
      • Ben Hecht
    • Reparto principal
      • Hugh O'Brian
      • Robert Evans
      • Dolores Michaels
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    • 8Reseñas de críticos
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    Hugh O'Brian
    Hugh O'Brian
    • Daniel Slade Hardy
    Robert Evans
    Robert Evans
    • Felix Griffin
    Dolores Michaels
    Dolores Michaels
    • May
    Linda Cristal
    Linda Cristal
    • Ellen Hardy
    Stephen McNally
    Stephen McNally
    • Marshal Frank Emmett
    June Blair
    June Blair
    • Saloon Girl
    Edward Andrews
    Edward Andrews
    • Judge Parker
    Ron Ely
    Ron Ely
    • Deputy Jim Dyer
    Ken Scott
    Ken Scott
    • Paul Finney
    Emile Meyer
    Emile Meyer
    • Ames
    Gregory Morton
    Gregory Morton
    • Defense Attorney Gage
    Shari Lee Bernath
    • Janie Hardy
    Robert Adler
    Robert Adler
    • Harry Jeffords, Deputy
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    John Barton
    • Juror
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    Terry Becker
    Terry Becker
    • Lew Lane
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    George Blagoi
    George Blagoi
    • Barn Fight Spectator
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    Oscar Blank
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    Paul Bradley
    Paul Bradley
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    • Dirección
      • Gordon Douglas
    • Guión
      • Harry Brown
      • Philip Yordan
      • Ben Hecht
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    7nra-2

    It's stayed in my memory for 47 years!

    I can never forget this film. Unlike some critics, me and my mates found Robert Evans' performance mesmerising. In '58, it was our first experience of a horror-western and for us it worked very well. I'm not saying it's a truly great film, just that it was so radically different at the time that it remains one of my most memorable films of the 50s.

    In the East-End of London, in the mid to late 50s, we teens were hooked on Americana. We knew and liked Hugh O'Brian as Wyatt Earp in the TV series. Robert Evans was new to us and a revelation. We liked his look and his style; his performance fitted well with Rock 'n Roll, James Dean and the whole 'cool' American thing.

    Fortunately, although in the UK, I have a recorder which plays NTSC tapes. I will be buying this film soon.
    8lonesome-2

    can you say "gothic, psychologically gripping, oater?"

    I must confess that I saw this movie an awful long time ago, when I was just a kid. However, it made a big impression on me and it blended genres in a way that I hadn't ever seen a film before. The story sort of reminds me of "Psycho," but set in the old west, and to a lesser degree, set in some deserted shipyards and other industrial locations. Anyhow, ever since I've been dying to see it again. Filmed in beautifully harsh and stark black and white.
    lorenellroy

    Torpedoed by a crass central performance

    There is a minor tradition of remaking crime movies for the Western genre."The Badlanders"is a retread of "The Asphalt Jungle"while "Colorado Territory"is a remake of "High Sierra".

    "The Fiend Who Walked The West"is "Kiss of Death"in Western clothing and is almost a splendid movie.Hugh OBrian is "Daniel Slade Hardy" a decent gangster/outlaw who wants to go straight and turns to criminality only to keep his family fed.While in prison he confides in his deranged cellmate "Felix Griffin"the location of a cache of stolen money.Griffin on release tracks down and kills one of the robbers and slays his mother before terrorising Hardy's wife.Hardy is set free-in the guise of an escape-to bring the now out of control Griffin to justice

    The problem is not the script,direction(by the under-rated Gordon Douglas)or the acting by seasoned performers like OBrian and McNally(playing the sympathetic lawman but a performance of utter inadequacy by Robert Evans as Griffin.Where Richard Widmark in the original induced fear and loathing all that Evans evokes is a desire to laugh.Pouting prettily and assuming sub James Dean stances does not constitute acting and merely suggests a poor imitation of an poor actor.(The influence of James Dean on screen acting was wholly negative)If your villain comes over as a pouting pretty boy who needs a sound spanking then your movie is in trouble

    Its atmospheric,violent for its day and all the ingredients bar one -a credible actor in the pivotal role are in place.This lack mars the whole piece
    6Uriah43

    A Convict Having to Deal with a Psychotic Cellmate

    After being caught trying to rob a bank, a cowboy by the name of "Daniel Slade Hardy" (Hugh O'Brien) is shocked by the lengthy prison sentence he receives after refusing to testify against his colleagues. Even so, at the very least, he expects them to look after his pregnant wife and young daughter while he is serving time. His attitude changes, however, when he learns that his wife was recently visited by his former cellmate "Felix Griffin" (Robert Evans) who may have caused her to miscarry due to his strange behavior with her. That said, determined to get even with him, Nick strikes a deal with "Marshall Frank Emmett" (Stephen McNally) and "Judge Parker" (Edward Andrews) to gather evidence on some recent murders that may have been committed by Felix in exchange for a full pardon. What he doesn't count on, however, is just how wily his psychotic cellmate has become. Now, rather than reveal any more, I will just say that, by sheer coincidence, I happened to watch the 1947 movie "Kiss of Death" a couple of days earlier, and I was surprised at how similar the plot was to this picture. Sure enough, this is basically a remake of that film, but with a Western setting instead. As far as the acting is concerned, although I preferred the earlier version with Victor Mature as the main star, I must admit that I thought the ending was somewhat better. But that is just my opinion. In any case, while possibly not as good as its predecessor, this was still an enjoyable film, for the most part, and I have rated it accordingly. Slightly above average.
    10jromanbaker

    A Perverse, crazy Western black comedy

    I find it absurd to compare Robert Evans with Richard Widmark in ' Kiss of Death ' which had a similar plotline as this film. Widmark succeeded in keeping his sneer and laugh as repetitive mannerisms and the audiences loved him for it. Evans left films as an actor, and his portrayal of the crazed and perverted killer was brilliantly conceived. I have seen no other performance quite like it and that is a compliment. Slightly camp, dangerously sexy he turned the ' fiend ' into a horrifically amusing tour de force of a part. Hugh O' Brian is good and Evans twists him around his ringed finger in a game of come on, suggesting literally unspeakable desires with women. As long as he is there of course. Fixated on O'Brian he terrifies the man's wife, shoots an arrow into an old woman and except for the arrow the violence is not as brutal as critics of the time condemned it to be. Gordon Douglas the fine director conveys a lot of black humour, but the UK censor promptly gave it an X certificate ( the first adults only certificate for a Western ) and everyone seeing it due to horror promotion expected the worst. Personally I have seen an equal amount of violence and nastiness in Westerns before this one, and children with an adult could see them. For example in the applauded John Ford ' She Wore A Yellow Ribbon a man is hauled alive over a fire, screaming until he dies. Nothing in ' The Fiend Who Walked the West ' quite compares with that! Sadly this film has slipped into deliberate obscurity and I saw it recently on YouTube with French subtitles. The French brought it out on DVD years ago, and I have it proudly in my collection. ' Fiend ' is crazy, tinged with perverse sexuality and non stated desires. It is also due to Evans crazily amusing, and way, way over the top. Viewers see it with a sense of humour and do not take it seriously. As I write this I am watching ' Canyon Passage ' and have just seen a woman and child killed brutally and long distance sculping. This film could be seen by children on their own with a ' U ' certificate. Censorship can be as cruelly funny as this underrated film.

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      Fox re-used the music score from Ultimátum a la Tierra (1951) by Bernard Herrmann in this picture, much to his regret. He was outraged, and told the studio executives what he thought of it after he received notice from the Musicians' Union in 1958.
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    • Fecha de lanzamiento
      • 1 de agosto de 1958 (Estados Unidos)
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      • Estados Unidos
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      • 20thCFox Century Ranch, Malibu Canyon, California, Estados Unidos(Photograph)
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