BLOOD AND GUNS

Tepepa – Italian title
Viva la revolución – Spanish title
Tepepa – Spanish title
Tepepa, la rebelle tournamente – French title
Trois per un massacre – French title
Der Eliminator – German title
Durch die Hölle, Companeros – German title
Viva Tepepa! – Polish title
Tepepa - Portuguese title
Hail to the Revolution – English title
Long Live the Revolution – English title
Blood and Guns – US title

A 1968 Italian, Spanish co-production [Filamerica S.I.A.P. (Rome), P.E.F.S.A. (Madrid)]
Producer: Alfredo Cuomo, Nicolo Pomilia
Director: Giulio Petroni
Story: Ivan Della Mea (Luigi Della Mea)
Screenplay: Ivan Della Mea (Luigi Della Mea), Franco Solinas, Giulio Petroni
Cinematography: Francisco Marín (Francisco Harrada) [Technicolor, Techniscope]
Music: Ennio Morricone
Song: ‘Al Messico che vorrei’ sung by Cristy (Maria Brancucci)
Running time: 136 minutes

Cast:
Jesus Maria “Tepepa” Moran - Tomás Milian (Tomás Rodriguez)
Colonel/General Cascorro - Orson Welles (George Welles)
Dr. Henry Price/Brice - John Steiner
Paquito - Luciano Casamonica
Pedro “El Piojo” Pereira - José Torres
sergeant - Giancarlo Badessi
sergeant’s wife - Clara Colosimo
Paco - Rafael Hernández (Esteban Herrero)
Maria Virgen Escalande - Anna Maria Lanciaprima
Mr. Chu - George Wang (George Yie)
Consuelo - Paloma Cela (Paloma Molinero)
Madera - Paco Sanz (Francisco Sanz)
Mexican General - Ángel Ortiz (Ricardo Ortiz)
with; Lina Franchi, Mario Daddi, Armando Casamonica, Paolo Natale, Vittorio Gigli, Alba Maiolini



The Mexican Revolution of 1917 finds Tepepa leading a group of “Campesinos” against the Mexican Colonel Cascorro, while an English doctor hunts for Tepepa to take his revenge against him for the murder of his girlfriend.

“An excellent Mexican Revolution story, directed by Giulio Petroni. John Steiner is a wooden gringo, but Tomas Milian as the social bandit and Orson Welles as the reactionary army colonel are outstanding. They have good debates about power and the Revolution, and their showdown is strongly acted and well staged. Francisco Marin's location photography turns Tabernas, Albaricoces, and Guadix into the white-walled Mexico of the 1920s. Much irony and moral ambiguity; very influential on Leone's DUCK YOU SUCKER. Only Damiano Damiani's QUIEN SABE? / A BULLET FOR THE GENERAL (1966) is better.” – Alex Cox


You Tube link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wMP1g3EcKY