Vooruzhyon i ochen opasen
Vooružen i očen‘ opasen (Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, Romania 1977 / Director: Vladimir Vajnštok)
Also known as
Armed and Dangerous: Time and Heroes of Bret Harte | Armed and Very Dangerous (U.S.A.) | Durch den wilden Westen (Germany) | Ozbrojen a velmi nebezpečný (Czechoslovakia)
Cast and crew
- Cast: Donatas Banionis (Gabriel Conroy), Mirča Veroju (Jack Hamlin), Ljudmila Senčina (Julie Prudomme), Leonid Broněvoj (Peter Damphy), Lev Durov (Lucky Charlie, the gangster), Al'gimantas Masjulis (Lawyer Starbottle), Sergej Martinson (Mister Trot), Marija Plojja (Dolores Damphy), Oleg Žakov (Judge Flemming), Vsevolod Abdulov (Henry York), Talgat Nigmatulin (Indian Joe, the servant), Dimitrij Kričun (Groom Bill), Ferenc Bencze (Shot Harry), Grigorij Ljampe (seller of mysteries), Jan Schánilec (Julian Barreto), Tomáš Jan Burg (the bandit in the stagecoach robbery scene).
- Story: Bret Harte (novel: Gabriel Conroy)
- Screenplay: Vladimir Vladimirov, Pavel Finn
- Cinematography: Konstantin Ryžov [color]
- Music: Georgi Firtič
- Songs: : “Pesnya o chudesnom kraye”, “Poprobuyte zabytsya”, “Vooružen i očen‘ opasen” sung by Ludmila Senchina
- Art decorator: : Konstantin Zagorskij
- Set Decorator: : Konstantin Zagorskij
- Sound: : Nikolaj Ozornov
- Producers: Vladimir Vajnštok, Pavel Finn
Summary
Based on the stories of author Bret Harte the film takes place in America’s Wild West of the last third of the 19th century. Thousands of people rushed to the California gold fields in pursuit of enrichment. Among them was Gabriel Conroy, a man absolutely helpless in the world of business. When fountains of oil started gushing on his plot of land, the local moneybags Peter Damphy decided to appropriate the land, and succeeded in it by blackmailing Conroy’s wife and his former mistress Julie.
