Monday, May 21, 2012

A MAN, A COLT


Un uomo e uomo colt – Italian title
Un uomo e la sua colt - Italian title
Un hombre y un Colt – Spanish title
Dakota Joe un hombre y un Colt – Spanish title
Dakota Joe – Brazilian title
Un home… un colt – French title
Der Colt aus Gringos Hand – German title
Enas anthropos, ena pistol – Greek title
Bir Adam bir Tabanca – Turkish title
Dakota Joe – English title
A Man, a Colt – English title

A 1967 Italian, Spanish co-production [PEA (Rome), Tulio Demicheli P.C. (Madrid)]
Producer: Tulio Demicheli (Armando Demicheli)
Director: Tulio Demicheli (Armando Demicheli)
Story: Nino Stresa (Sigfrido Tomba)
Screenplay: Nino Stresa (Sigfrido Tomba), Tulio Demicheli (Aemando Demicheli)
Cinematography: Oberdan Troiani, Emilio Foriscot (Emilio Mallat) [Technicolor, Techniscope]
Music: Oliver Ángel, Piña, Coriolano Gori
Running time: 85 minutes

Cast:
Gringo/Dallas/Dakota Joe – Robert Hundar (Claudio Undari)
Pedro – Fernando Sancho (Fernando Les)
Don Carlos – Mirko Ellis (Mirko Korcinsky)
Carmencita – Marta Reves (Márta Révész)
Beatrice – Gloria Milland (Mara Fiè)
Diego – Paco Morán (Francisco Ruiz)
Gracian – Jacinto Martín
Mamacita – Josefina Serratosa (Josefina Pereira)
Marta – Vittoria di Silverio
Hotel Clerk – Giovanni Petti Giovanni Petrucci)
Doctor García Gómez - Felix Dafauce (Félix Tarancon),
Pedro’s henchmen – Simón Arriaga, Raf Baldassarre (Raffaele Baldassarre)
Maid – Ana Cervajal (Ana Carvajal)
Stagecoach passenger – Jesús Guzmán (Jesús Areta)
Don Carlos henchman – José Canalejas
Saloon patron – Elio Angelucci
Peon - José Antonio Mayans (José Hervás)
With: Luis Gaspar (Luis Osorio), Emilio Espinosa, Ramón Serrano, Juan Francisco Margallo


After boldly penetrating the lair of the gang of Pedro, where he punishes two bandits who have stolen his horse, the gunslinger Dakota Joe shows up at Don Carlos’, a wealthy landowner for whom he has been hired to kill Dr. Garcia Gomez. Before executing the crime, Joe finds out that Don Carlos terrorizes the region and that Dr. Garcia is a supporter of the revolution headed by Emiliano Zapata. Meanwhile Gratian the brother of Don Carlos, will benefit from the assassination to the detriment of Pablo and Carmencita, a young peon couple that Dakota Joe has met and made ​​friends with. Given the situation Dakota Joe takes the side of the rebels and kills Grazian but is captured by the henchmen of Don Carlos. Freed with the help of former bandit Pedro, the rich landowner puts up a huge reward for Dakota. But Pedro, attracted by the money, runs away with it and Joe retrieves the money only to deliver it to his revolutionary friends.

 

1 comment:

  1. Dakota Joe sounds more like a comic book series than it does a Spaghetti Western. It even has those elements. Kind of artsy but still entertaining.

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