After a bank robbery, the Bandit Kid is stranded in a Mexican Sierra ghost town named Deadlock. The only inhabitants are Charles Dump and his daughter Jessy. Dump tries to steal the bandit's loot. Klick's psychedelic manhunt in no man's land is acoustically and visually captivating and dramaturgically consistent to the end. Mario Adorf, Anthony Dawson, Marquard Bohm prowl around their prey like cats on the hunt to the soundtrack of Krautrock band CAN. "Finally a film that ticks all the boxes and meets audience expectations. In this respect, there would definitely be reason to believe in the creative potential of the German film business once again." (Pforzheimer Zeitung, 10/24/1970)
DEADLOCK hints at what German film could have become without all the state subsidized funding of navel-gazing and art for art's sake.
After a bank robbery, the Bandit Kid is stranded in a Mexican Sierra ghost town named Deadlock. The only inhabitants are Charles Dump and his daughter Jessy. Dump tries to steal the bandit's loot.
Klick's psychedelic manhunt in no man's land is acoustically and visually captivating and dramaturgically consistent to the end. Mario Adorf, Anthony Dawson, Marquard Bohm prowl around their prey like cats on the hunt to the soundtrack of Krautrock band CAN.
"Finally a film that ticks all the boxes and meets audience expectations. In this respect, there would definitely be reason to believe in the creative potential of the German film business once again." (Pforzheimer Zeitung, 10/24/1970)