Wednesday, November 28, 2012

A PISTOL FOR 100 COFFINS



Una pistol per cento bare – Italian title
El sabor del odio – Spanish title
Una pistol para cien tumba – Spanish tile
Uma pistol para cem Caixoes – Brazilian title
La malle de San Antonio – French title
Pistolets pour un massacre – French title
Ein Colt fur hndert Sarge – German title
Hamnaren fran Tucson – Swedish title
A Gun for One Hundred Graves – U.K. title
A Pistol for One Hundred Graves – U.S.A. title
A Pistol for 100 Coffins – U.S.A. title

A 1968 Italian, Spanish co-production [Tritone Filmindustria (Rome), Cine Espana  Copercines (Madrid)]
Producer: Ennio Girolami
Director: Umberto Lenzi
Story: Eduardo Manzanos
Screenplay: Umberto Lenzi, Marco Leto
Cinematography: Alejandro Ulloa [Technicolor, Techniscope]
Music: Angelo F. Lavagnino (Angelo Francesco Lavagnino)
Running title 86 minutes

Cast:
Jim ‘The Kid’ Slade – Peter Lee Lawrence (Karl Hirenbach)
Douglas – John Ireland
Marjorie – Gloria Oçaña (Gloria Osuna)
J. ‘Texas’ Corbett – Piero Lulli (Giusva Lulli)
Cassidy – Calisto Calisti
Mayor – Andrea Scotti
Old Ben – Franco Pesce (Francesco Pesce)
Verdugo – Raf Baldassarre (Raffaele Baldassarre)
Elizabeth – Paola Natale
Tony Butcher – Herman Reynoso (Hermano Reynoso)
Freddy Butcher – Gino Turini
Joe – Frank Brana (Francisco Pérez)
Chavel – Eduardo Fajardo
Glaverstone banker – Migeul del Castillo
Dodge City banker – Julio Pena
Barrett – Victor Israel (José Vilanova)
Jeff Mortimer Logan – Giovanni Petti (Giovanni Petrucci)
David – Jose Jaspe (José Rivas)
Percy – Alfonso Rojas (Alfonso Melquiades)
Bartender – Franco Narducci (Francesco Narducci)
With: Miguel Guzman, Giovanni Ivan Scratuglia, Luis de Tejada, Leonides Guerra, Armando Calvo (Armando Lespier),Joaquín  Parra


A soldier, Jim Slade, refuses, as a Jehovah's Witness, to use weapons and is therefore sentenced to two years of forced labor. Pardoned, removed from the Regiment, he goes to Tucson, his hometown, to be reunited with his family. Upon his arrival he discovers that his parents have been murdered. The culprits, he tells his friend Cassidy, are four outlaws: Jeff Logan, brothers Tony and Freddy, Butcher Corbett and the Texan. He quickly and successfully learns how to use a gun and begins a relentless hunt for the murderers. In a short time, he learns from Corbett that Slade has moved to Gulberstone, where he receives valuable assistance from Douglas, a lay preacher. Knowing that the bank is going to receive, from its headquarters, two hundred thousand dollars, Corbett lies in wait with his men at the edge of town to steal the money, but Jim, with a trick, manages to evade the blockade. Jim believes an attack is imminent and with a plan of defense, leads to the elimination of the gang. In the meantime a group of insane inmates housed in the town jail make their escape and terrorize the town. The only survivor of the outlaw gang is the Texan who tells Slade, before falling mortally wounded, that the real gang leader is the unexpected Douglas. Jim chases the fake preacher who is confronted by one of the insane inmates in the cemetery and in a gun duel Slade gets the better of him.



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