TEX AND THE LORD OF THE DEEP

Tex e il signore degli abissi - Italian title

Tex Willer e os Senhores do Abismo - Brazilian title
Tex e o Senhor do Abismo – Brazilian title
Tex a pán temnot - Czechoslovakian title
Tex el le seigneur des abysses - French title
Tex und das Geheimnis der Todesgrotten - German title
Tex, o aetos tis Dysis - Greek title
Sto nao ton Aztekon - Greek title
Tex és a mélység ura  - Hungarian title
Tex, o pistoleiro - Portuguese title
Tex y el senor de los abismos - Spanish title
Tex and the Lord of the Deep - English title
 
A 1985 Italian production [RAI Channel3, Cinecitta (Rome)]
Producers: Enzo Porcelli, Gioacchino Marano
Director: Duccio Tessari (Amadeo Tessari)
Story: Giovanni L. Bonelli (Giovanni Luigi Bonelli)
Screenplay: Gianfranco Clerici, Marcello Coscia, Duccio Tessari (Amadeo Tessari), Giorgio
Bonelli (Sergio Bonelli)
Italian Dialogue: Selma Dell’Ollo (Anselmo Dell’Ollo), Gianni Galassi
Cinematography: Pietro Moridelli [Cinecitta Color]
Music: Gianni Ferrio (Giovanni Ferrio)
Running time: 104 minutes
 
Cast:
Tex Willer - Giuliano Gemma
Kit Carson - William Berger (Wilhelm Berger)
Tiger Jack - Carlo Mucari
Princess Tulac - Isabel Russinova (Maria Cociani)
El Morisco - Peter Berling
Kansas - Flavio Bucci
El Dorado - Aldo Sambrell (Alfredo Brell)
Dr. Warton - José Luis de Villalonga (José de Vaca)
Quetzal - Pietro Torrisi
Pedro – Riccardo Pizzuti
Jim Bedford - Frank Braña (Francisco Pérez)
Lord of the Deep - Riccardo Petrazzi
Whiskey salesman - Ricardo Palacios
Inidan Shaman - Giovanni L. Bonelli (Giovanni Luigi Bonelli)
Eusebio/Magua – Hugo Blanco (Hugo Galiasso)
Marcos/Pablito - Charly Bravo (Carlos Bravo)
Stunt coordinator: Nazzareno Zamperla

Tex Willer, aided by his friends Kit Carson, an old "Ranger", and Tiger Jack, a young Navajo warrior, identify and defeat a gang of robbers and smugglers who are transporting arms of the U.S. Army to one of the most warlike Indian tribes. Later, however, Tex is forced to see El Morisco, a Mexican scientist and sorcerer, who reveals the terrible nature of the bullets that are circulating in the region are small greenish stones that are shot with a blowgun, and mummify in  seconds everything they hit. And who is in possession of these bullets? The "Yaquis", the Tribe that bought the stolen army guns and they are hidden on top of a mountain. Tex , after convincing his friend, an Indian chief Magua - to gather all the tribes of the mountain area, to avoid a war, with death and ruin for everyone. Magua will take Tex to the location of "Yaquis." Meanwhile, Carson and Tiger are taken prisoner, in order for Kansas, an Indian chief who acts in consultation with the princess Tulac, which is none other than the beautiful daughter of the Lord of the Deep, who is the real leader and master: he lives in a huge underground cavern, where fire is everlasting and it is from there that he extracts the green stone. Tex, boldly rescues his companions, and with great amount of dynamite blows up the weapons depot, and then descends into the heart of the mountain, where he fights with the sorcerer and plunges him into the abyss of fire. Kanas and Tulac perish under a mighty avalanche of rocks, after which Tex, Carson and Tiger will share in new adventures.

 

YouTube trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ06f55i45I