THE MERCENARY

Il Mercenario – Italian title

Salario para matar – Spanish title

El mercenario – Spanish title

Jaguar – Spanish title

Ammattitappaja – Finnish title

Un tuer professionnel – French title

El mercenario – French title

Mercenario – der Gefurchtete – German title

Die zwei Gefurchteten – German title

Die gefurchteten Zwei – German title

O epanastatis – Greek title

O misthoforos – Greek title

O skliros, to moutro kai o zorikos – Greek title

O Pistoleiro Profissional – Portuguese title

Gringo-Professionell Pistolero – Swedish title

Revenge of a Gunfighter – English title

A Professional Gun – U.K. title

The Mercenary – U.S.A. title

A 1968 Italian, Spanish co-production [Produzioni Europee Associate (Rome), Profilms (Madrid)]

Producer: Alberto Grimaldi

Director: Sergio Corbucci

Story: Giorgio Arlorio, Franco Solinas

Screenplay: Adriano Bolzoni, Sergio Corbucci, Sergio Spina, Luciano Vincenzoni

Cinematography: Alejandro Ulloa [Technicolor, Techniscope]

Music: Ennio Morricone, Bruno Nicolai

Songs: “Bamba vivace”, “Estasi”, “Il Mercenario”, “Fiesta”, “Liberta”, “Paco”, “Canto a mia

terra”, “Notte di Nozze”, “Riccioli” sung by I Cantori Moderni

Running time: 111 minutes

Cast:

Sergei Kowalski – Franco Nero (Francesco Sparanero)

Ricciolo/Curly/Curl/Elam – Jack Palance (Vladimir Palanuik, Jr.)

Paco Roman – Tony Musante (Anthony Musante, Jr.)

Columba – Giovanna Ralli

Alfonso Garcia – Eduardo Fajardo

Ramon – Álvaro de Luna (Álvaro Blanco)

Mateo – Raf Baldassarre (Raffaele Baldassare)

Hudo – Remo de Angelis

Larkin – Joe Kamel (Giuseppe Frisaldi)

Sebastian – José Canalejas

Mexicans – José Riesgo (José Cortina), Angel Ortiz (Ricardo Ortiz)

Elias García – Vicente Roca (Vincente Roca)

Studs – Franco Ressel (Domenico Orobana)

Captain – Guillermo Méndez

Simón – Simón Arriaga

Innkeeper – José Zalde

Antonio – Francisco Nieto

García’s cousin – Tito García (Pablo González)

Pepote – Franco Giacobini

Notary – Ángel Álvarez (Ángel Fernández)

Ramirez – José María Aguinaco

Mayor – Juan Cazalilla

Juan – José Antonio López

Marco – Milo Quesada (Raul Alonso)

Sergeant – Fernando Villena

Curly henchman – Hermano Reynoso

Officer – Lorenzo Robledo

Mexicans - Ángel Ortiz, José Riesgo

With: Bruno Corazzari, Enrique Navarro, A. Jiménez Castellanos, Julio Peña (Julio Muñoz) 

While a Mexican revolutionary lies low as a U.S. rodeo clown, the cynical Polish mercenary who tutored the idealistic peasant tells how he and a dedicated female radical fought for the soul of the guerrilla general Paco, as Mexicans threw off repressive government and all-powerful landowners in the 1910s. Tracked by the vengeful Curly, Paco liberates villages, but is tempted by social banditry's treasures, which Kowalski revels in. – David Stevens

YouTube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbvUrq72T74