BLINDMAN

Il cieco – Italian title
O cego – Brazilian title
A morte do Pistoleiro - Brazilian title
O retorn do Gringo - Brazilian title
Sokea tappaja – Finnish title
Blindman, le justicier aveugle – French title
Blindman, der Vollstrecker – German title
50 gyaikes gia to pistoli mou – Greek title
To exasfairo tis prodosias – Greek title
O justiceiro sem olhos - Portuguese ttle
El justiciero ciego – Spanish title
Il pistolero cieco – Spanish title
Slepi revolveras -Yugoslavian title
Blindman – U.S.A. title

A 1971 British, Italian co-production [ABKCO Films (London), Primex/Produzione Atlas Consorziate (Rome)]
Producers: Saul Swimmer, Tony Anthony (Roger Petitto)
Director: Ferdinando Baldi
Story: Tony Anthony (Roger Petitto)
Screenplay: Piero Anchisi, Tony Anthony (Roger Petitto), Vincenzo Cerami, Ferdinando Baldi
Cinematography: Riccardo Pallottini [Technicolor, Techniscope]
Music: Stelvio Cipriani
Running time: 110 minutes

Cast:
Blindman - Tony Anthony (Roger Petitto)
Candy - Ringo Starr (Richard Starkey)
Domingo - Lloyd Battista
Pilar - Agneta Eckemyr
Pilar’s father - Franz Treuberg (Franz von Treuberg)
Sweet Mama - Magda Konopka
Mexican general - Raf Baldassarre (Raffaele Baldassarre)
train engineer - Tito Garcia (Pablo Gonzalez)
Mexican soldiers - Tomás Rudy (Tomás Rudi), Salavatore Billa
Mexica officers - Fortunato Arena, Ennio Antonelli
Skunk - Renato Romano
bearded rifleman - Mal Evans (Malcolm Evans)
fat rifleman - Allen Klein
Dude - David Dreyer (David Petitto)
Margherita - Marisa Solinas (Maria Solinas)
maid - Carla Brait
prostitute - Janine Raynaud
brides - Shirley Corrigan, Karin Skaresso, Lucretia Love, Isabella Savona, Elena Veronese (Elena Puatto), Malisa Longo (Maria Longo), Mary Badin, Dominique Badou, Katerina Lindfelt, Alice Mannell, Krista Nell (Doreis Kristanel), Helen Parker (Maria Gentilini), Giuliana Giuliani, Solvi Stubing, Melù Valente, Diana Lorys (Anna Vega), Mirta Miller (Mirta Chatard)
with; Gaetano Scala, Remo de Angelis, Guido Mannari, John Friedrick

Ferdinando Baldi’s “Blindman” is a take on the Japanese Zatoichi character. In a rather unique storyline for a western, Tony Anthony plays a blind gunman who’s been hired to deliver 50 brides to a group of miners. His partner Skunk double-crosses him and sells them to a Mexican bandit named Domingo and his brother Candy. The women are taken to Mexico with the intention of selling them to the Mexican army, whom he intends to double-cross. Blindman with the help of his horse finds the women and demands that Domingo return them to him. Domingo refuses and throws him out. Blindman cleverly kdnaps Candy and holds him for ransom: the 50 women. Domingo agrees but when Blindman has them loaded onto a train headed north he discovers the 50 young, beautiful women have been substituted for 50 gagged old women. Blindman is now out for blood and again confronts Domingo, who has him thrown in a dungeon with the captured Mexican general. Here he is tortured by the Mexican bandit’s sister Sweet Mama. Blindman helps the general to escape, turns the tables on Sweet Mama, and sets a trap for Domingo. In the end he meets Domingo in a dark cemetery building and with the playing surface now being equal, kills him and the rest of the Mexican bandits are defeated by the general and his men who have come to rescue our hero.

You Tube links 1 & 2: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMJ7yPKHr5Y
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6FYSpdRTqo