THE UNHOLY FOUR

Ciakmull, l’uomo della vendetta – Italian title

Ciakmull – Italian title

De bastaard van Dodge City – Belgian title

Chuck Mull-O Homen da Vingança – Brazilian title

Ciakmull, O Homem da Vingança – Brazilian title

Bastarden fra Dodge City – Danish title

De Bastaard van Dodge City – Dutch title

De wreker – Dutch title

Kostaja – Finnish title

Le batard de Dodge City – French title

Django – Die Nacht der langen Messer – German title

Ein Toter rechnet ab – German title

Tzak Moya – Greek title

Ta 4 pistolia tou Vorra – Greek title

Ciak Mull, o ekdikitis – Greek title

O Homem da Vingança – Portuguese title

Ciakmull, puerta abierta al infierno – Spanish title

Bailando con la luna – Spanish title

Ballant solta la lluna – Spanish title

4 vilda män – Swedish title

Batinin 4 devi – Turkish title

Chuck Mool – English title

The Unholy Four – English title

 

A 1969 Italian production [B.R.C., PAC (Rome)]

Producer: Manolo Bolgnini

Director: E.B. Clucher (Enzo Barboni)

Story: Franco Rossetti

Screenplay: Mario d Nardo, Franco Rossetti, Luca Montefiori

Cinematography: Mario Montouri [Eastmancolor]

Music: Riz Ortolani (Riziero Ortolani)

Running time: 95 minutes

 

Cast:

Chuck Moll – Leonard Mann (Leonardo Manzella)

Woody – Woody Strode (Woodrow Strode)

Silver – Peter Martell (Pietro Martellanza)

Hondo – Luca Montefiroe (Luigi Montefiore)

John Caldwell – Helmuth Schneider

Mr. Udo – Lucio Rosato

Alan Caldwell – Alain Nayà

Ben/Sam – Dino Strano

Tom Udo – Andrew Ray (Andrea Aureli)

Gamblers – Luciano Rossi, Lorenzo Fineschi, Sergio Smacchi

Saloon girl – Silvana Bacci

Sheriff – Enzo Fiermonte (Vincenzo Fiermonte)

John – Salvatore Billa

Jack – Remo Capitani (Renato Capitani)

Burt – Romano Puppo

Caldwell henchman – Paolo Magalotti

Sheila Udo – Evelyn Stewart (Ida Galli)

Flaming Bill – Osiride Pevarello

Big John – Emilio Messina

Tug of war announcer – Dante Cleri

Bounty hunters – Remo De Angelis, Pietro Ceccarelli

Asylum warden – Fortunato Arena

Saloon brawlers Giovanni Cianfriglia, Claudio Scarchilli, Roberto Dell’Acqua

Townsman – Vittorio Fanfoni

With: Giuseppe Lauricelli, Umberto Di Grazia, Gilberto Galimberti

 

An asylum is set ablaze to cover up a bank robbery and several inmates die in the fire. Four of the inmates manage to escape and one of the four, an amnesiac young man, is recognized by a mortally wounded bank robber, who utters the name of “Ciakmull”, but passes away before he can give any further information. With the three other escaped convicts, Ciakmull (Chuck Mool) tries to put the pieces to this jigsaw puzzle and the events leading to his memory loss and incarceration at the asylum. When they arrive in a small village, he is recognized by a young man who tells him he is his brother. Apparently Ciakmull had a reputation as a great gunman, and his ‘brother’ now asks him to confront the local tyrant, Joe Caldwell, who is known to visit the local graveyard every night. Visiting the churchyard at night, he learns the so-called tyrant is his own father. Thanks to one of Ciakmull’s friends a killing is prevented, but the fatality of the play is respected in a dramatic ending, which turns Ciakmull into the bastard son who was brought into the family by his foster father. Things escalate from there and end in a grand scale gunfight.
 
YouTube trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyEXUBkkh78