Vooruzhyon i ochen opasen
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Vooruzhyon i ochen opasen (Country: Soviet Union / Czechoslovakia / Romania 1977 / Director: Vladimir Vajnshtok)
Also known as
Armed and Dangerous: Time and Heroes of Bret Harte | Armed and Very Dangerous (U.S.A.) | Durch den wilden Westen (Germany)
Cast and crew
- Cast: Donatas Banionis (Gabriel Conroy), Mircea Veroiu (Jack Hamlin), Lyudmila Senchina (Julie Prudomme), Leonid Bronevoy (Peter Damphy), Lev Durov (Lucky Charlie), Algimantas Masiulis (Lawyer Starbottle), Sergei Martinson (Mister Trot), Maria Ploae (Dolores Damphy), Oleg Zhakov (Judge Zhakov), Vsevolod Abdulov (Henry York), Talgat Nigmatulin (Indian Joe), Dumitru Craciun (Groom Bill), Ferenc Bencze (Shot Harry), Grigori Lyampe (seller of mysteries), Jan Schánilec (Julian Barreto)
- Story: "Gabriel Conroy" by Bret Harte
- Screenplay: Pavel Finn, Vladimir Vajnshtok
- Cinematography: Konstantin Ryzhov [color]
- Music: Georgi Firtich
- Songs: : “Pesnya o chudesnom kraye”, “Poprobuyte zabytsya”, “Vooruzhyon I ochen opasen” sung by Ludmila Senchina
- Producers: Vladimir Vajnshtok, 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.