TEQUILA JOE

…e venne il tempo uccidere – Italian title

Chegou o Tempo de Matar – Brazilian title
Les loi des colts – French title
Einladung zum Totentanz – German title
Irthe i ora na pethanis – Greek title
Serif zvani cutura – Yugoslavian title
The Moment to Kill – U.K. title
The Time Has Come to Kill – English title
A and Place for Killing – English title
And Then a Time of Killing – English title
Tequila Joe – English title
 
A 1968 Italian production [C.R. Cinematografica (Rome)]
Producers: Renzo Renzi, Otella Cocchi
Director: Vincent Eagle (Enzo Dell’Aquila)
Story: Fernando di Leo, Enzo Dell’Aquila
Screenplay: Fernando di Leo, Enzo Dell’Aquila
Cinematography: Rino Filippini [Eastmancolor]
Music: Francesco De Masi
Song: “A Man Alone” sung by Raoul (Ettore Lovecchio)
Running time: 95 minutes
 
Cast:
Marshal Burt – Jean Sobieski
Sheriff ‘Tequila Joe’ Donnell – Anthony Ghidra (Dragomir Bojanic)
Manuel Trianes – Dick Palmer (Domenico Palmara)
Rock Mulligan – Furio Meniconi
Consuela – Felicita Fanny (Felicita Fanni)
Mulligan’s daughter – Eleanora Ruffo
Rodriguez – Mimo Billi (Giacomo Billi)
Rodriguez’s son – Luciano Casamonica
Artist – Fidel Gonzáles (Fidel González)
Connors – Graham Sooty (Eugenio Galadini)
Trianes henchmen – Gilberto Galimberti, Remo Capitani (Renato Capitani)
Mulligan henchmen – Claude Ruffin (Claudio Ruffini), Giovanni Scratuglia (Ivan Scratuglia), Fortunato Arena, Omero Capanna, Amerigo Castrighello
With: Raul Amari (Ettore Lovecchio), Frank Fargas (Paolo Figlia), Max Fraser, Luciano Doria

Sheriff Joe Donnell, a drunk, watches the bloody struggle between rival groups of Manuel Trianas Rock and Mulligan without intervening. When the feud begins to cost the lives of the innocent townspeople, his deputy Burt, tries unsuccessfully to awaken in him courage and a sense of honor. On his own the deputy tries to mediate a truce between the warring factions but fails to succeed. When the daughter of Mulligan is kidnapped and then returns injured and abused the gangs prepare for an all-out war. Burt sends for help from the army to declare martial law and restore order. In the meantime Burt begins a campaign of his own and with the help of the sheriff who finally has had enough and the two face Mulligan in a final showdown.
 
YouTube trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZKvG5xXMk8