WHEN THE DEVIL GRIPS A COLT

Una Colt in mano del diavolo – Italian title

Um Revolver na mao do Diabl – Brazilian title

Un colt dans la main du diable – French title

Ena pistoli sto heri tou Diavolou – Greek title

Un pistol en manos Diablo – Spanish title

En colt i djävulens hand – Swedish title

Kolt u Rukama Davola – Yugoslavian title

When the Devil Holds a Gun – English title

When the Devil Grips a Colt – English title

 

A 1972 Italian production [Mercedes Film (Rome)]

Producer: Giovanni Vari, Victor Stocchi

Director: Frank G. Carrol (Gianfranco Baldanello Merano)

Story: Augusto Finocchi

Screenplay: Gianfranco Baldanello (Gianfranco Merano), Alfonso Brescia, Augusto Finocchi

Cinematography: Marcel Mascot (Marcello Masciacchi), Alvaro Lanzo [Technicolor,

Techniscope]

Music: Piero Piccioni (Gianpiero Piccioni)

Running time: 89 minutes

 

Cast:

Butch Brown/McCorney – William Berger (Wilhelm Berger)

Wilton/Roy Coster – Robert Woods

Lisa – Mila Stanic

Warner – George Wang (Wang Yie)

Jeremy Scott – Attilio Dottesio

Grace - Fiorella Mannoia

Mister Robins - Giuseppe Tuminelli

Diavolo - José Torres

Jeremy - Artemio Antonini

Sam - Mario Dardanelli

Martha Scott - Giovanna Mainardi

Sheriff - Victor Stocchi

Lawyer - Nello Palladino (Aniello Palladino)

Gravedigger – Ivan Greeve

Poker player – Amerigo Castrighella

Warner henchman – Benito Pacifico

Townsman - Altiero Di Giovanni

Stable boy - J. Paul Getty III

With: Tony Dimitri (Antonio Dimitri), Nino Fuscagni, Fred Kent, Harry Baird, Romana Rondi, Alessandro Perrella, Lorenzo Piani

 

At a prison camp in the desert, Jeremy Scott saves Roy Koster from being shot by an angry warden. Scott dies soon afterwards, but with his dying breath, reveals the name of the place he came from: Silvertown. Koster, after his release from the camp, decides to visit Silvertown and see the family of Scott. However, he finds the town to be rather angry, even Jeremy’s relatives are not happy to see him. Nobody wants to speak to him, the only one who does is hanged and Koster begins to suspect that Scott was innocent, thus the truth about the deed he was sentenced for remains hidden. The town is ruled by Warner and his henchmen, and when Koster starts investigating, he quickly makes a lot of enemies.