NAVAJO JOE

Un dollaro a testa – Italian title

Navajo Joe – Italian title

Joe, el implacable – Spanish title

Joe – O pistoleiro Implacável – Brazilian title

Navajo Joe – 1 dollar päänahasta – Finnish title

Navajo Joe – French title

Kopfgeld: ein Dollar – German title

An seinen Stiefeln klebte Blut - German title

Navajos Land – German title

Red Fighter – German title

Navajo Joe – Portuguese title

Navajo Joe – en dollar per skalle – Swedish title

Savage Run – English title

A Dollar a Head – English title

Navajo Joe – U.S.A. title

A 1966 Italian, Spanish co-production [Dino de Laurentis Cinematografica (Rome), C.B. Films S.A. (Barcelona)]

Producer: Lugi Carpentieri, Ermanno Donati, José Luis Dibildos

Director: Sergio Corbucci

Story: Ugo Pirro (Ugo Mattone)

Screenplay: Fernando Di Leo, Dean Craig (Piero Regnoli)

Cinematography: Silvano Ippolitti [Technicolor, Techniscope]

Music: Leo Nichols (Ennio Morricone)

Song: “Navajo Joe” sung by Gianni Spagnolo and I Cantori Moderni

Running time: 93 minutes

Cast:

Joe/Navajo Joe – Burt Reynolds (Burton Reynolds, Jr.)

Mervyn ‘Vee’ Duncan – Aldo Sambrell (Alfredo Brell)

Estella – Nicoletta Machiavelli

Maria – Tanya Lopert

Monkey – Simón Arriaga

Parson Rattigan/Brother Jonathan – Fernando Rey (Fernando Vega)

Barbara – Franca Polesello

Geraldine – Lucia Modugno

El Gordo – Cris Huerta (Crisanto Brieva)

Doctor Chester Lynne – Peter Cross (Pierre Cressoy)

Oliver Blackwood – Ángel Álvarez (Ángel Fernández)

Sancho Ramirez – Álvaro de Luna (Álvaro Blanco)

Sheriff Elmo Reagan – Gianni do Stolfo

Chuck Holloway – Nino Imparato (Antonio Imparato)

Mayor Jefferson Clay – Mario Lanfranchi

El Cojo - Ángel Ortiz (Riccardo Ortiz)

Robledo – Lorenzo Robledo

Tim – Raf Baldassarre (Raffaele Baldassarre)

Duncan henchmen – Rafael Albaicin (Ignacio Escudero), Enrique Santiago, Valentino Macchi

Jeffrey Duncan – Lucio Rosato

Hannah Blackwood Lynne – Valeria Sabel

Swedish immigrant – Lars Bloch
Swedish immigrant's wife - Dianik (Dyanik Zurakowska)

Soldier – José Terrón (José Penaranda)
Esperanza telegrapher - Juan Casalilla(Juan Cazalilla)

Townsman – Fortunato Arena

Joe’s wife – Maria Cristina Sani (Cristina Iosani)

With: Roberto Paoletti, Roderick Auguste

After massacring an Indian village, outlaw Duncan finds his men falling victim to a solitary rider, Navajo Joe. Joe saves two prostitutes who have overheard Duncan plot with Lynne, the town doctor, to steal a train full of money belonging to the bank. Joe steals the train back from Duncan's gang. He asks the townspeople of Esperanza to pay him to protect them from Duncan, making an offer of "I want a dollar a head from every man in this town for every bandit I kill". The townspeople reject him, as they "don't make bargains with Indians." Lynne's wife Honor persuades them otherwise. Joe sets a trap for Duncan but is caught and tortured; Lynne and Honor are killed. Rescued by an old man from the saloon, Joe again steals the train and eradicates Duncan's gang. A final showdown in an Indian cemetery between Duncan and Joe ensues where Joe reclaims the pendant which Duncan stole from his wife when he murdered her. As Joe turns, Duncan shoots Joe with a hidden gun. Injured, Joe grabs a tomahawk and throws it, hitting Duncan square in the forehead. With Duncan dead, Joe sends his horse back to town, for the reward.

You Tube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGcK_qyL9Ug

[Aldo and Nicoletta told me they worked out a way for her to hold on to his arm while he pretended to pull her out of the saloon and out into the street by her hair. Nicoletta said surprisingly Burt seldom talked to her on or off the set even though she was one of the few people there that could speak English. Aldo said one of the reasons Burt was hired was that he could do his own stunts which cut down on the cost of production as they didn't have to stop scenes or hire a stuntman.]