THE PRICE OF POWER

Il prezzo del potere - Italian title

La muerte de un presidente - Spanish title

Ringo y el precio del poder - Spanish title

En hämnares väg - Finnish title

Texas - French title

Blutiges Blei - German title

O Preço do Poder - Portuguese title

Det blodiga Dallas - Swedish title

Cena Vlasti - Yugoslavian title

A Bullet for the President - U.S.A. title

The Price of Power - English title

A 1969 Italian, Spanish co-production [Patry Film (Rome), Films Montana (Madrid)]

Producer: Bianco Manini

Director: Tonino Valerii (Antonio Valerii)

Story: Massimo Patrizi, Ernesto Gastaldi

Screenplay: Massimo Patrizi

Cinematography: Stelvio Massi [Technicolor, Techniscope]

Music: Luis Enriquez Bacalov

Song: “Catch a Star from the Sky” sung by Norma Jordan

Running time: 119 minutes

Cast:

William ‘Bill’ Willer – Clint Eastman (Giuliano Gemma)

Arthur McDonald - Warren Vanders (Warren VanderSchuit)

President James Garfield - Van Johnson (Charles Johnson)

Lucretia Garfield - Maria Jesus Cuadra (Maria Perez)

Jack Donovan - Ray Saunders (Wilfred Saunders)

Sheriff Jefferson - Benito Stefanelli

Mr. Pinkerton - Fernando Rey (Fernando Arambillet)

Vice President - José Suárez (José Sánchez)

Nick - Manuel Zarzo (Manolo Zarza)

Wallace - Mike Harvey (Michael Harvey)

Governor of Texas - Julio Peña (Julio Muñoz)

Governor’s wife – Luisa Sala

Doctor Strips - Pepe Calvo (José Salgado)

Mr. Willer - Antonio Casas (Antonio Barros)

Mortimer - Frank Braña (Francisco Pérez)

Brett - Lorenzo Robledo

Deputies - José Canalejas, Carlos Bravo (Ramon Bravo), Riccardo Pizzuti

Annie Goddard - Norma Jordan

Slim – Joaquin Parra

Cotton - Ãngel Ãlvarez (Ãngel Fernández)

Pat – Francisco Sanz

Lawyer - Ãngel del Pozo (Ãngel Merino)

Wallace henchman – Paolo Figlia

With: Massimo Carocci, Franco Meroni, Luis Rico Pelaez, Ralph Neville, Lisardo Iglesias

At the end of the war of secession, President Garfiedl is committed to solve all the problems that gave rise to the conflict and to restore law and order to the Union. During a trip to the South, where the grievances still rage not yet, Garfield is assassinated by unknown assailants, in Dallas, Texas. The culprits are suspected to be William Willer and Jack Donovan, two Texans who had fought in the war for the Union army, under the command of then Colonel Garfield. While Donovan is killed during transfer to prison, Willer, manages to escape, and starts his own investigation of the crime and with the help of McDonald, secretary of the assassinated President, Willer discovers and punishes the real culprits for the death of President Garfield.

YouTube trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMNKMiCzdxk