A WREATH FOR THE BANDITS

Crisantemi per un branco di carogne – Italian title

Tote brauchen un branco di carogne – German title

Chrysanthemums for a Bunch of Swine – English title

If One is Born a Swine – English title

A Wreath for the Bandits – English title

 

A 1967 Italian production [Società Cinematografica Artisti Alleati (Rome)]

Producer: Ezio Trapanese

Director: Sergio Pastore

Story: Gianni Manera, Sergio Pastore, Scaiola

Screenplay: Gianni Manera (Colleferro Manera), Sergio Pastore, Scaiola

Cinematography: Tino Santoni (Clemente Santoni) [Eastmancolor]

Music: Piero Umiliani

Songs: “La balata della carogne” sung by Raoul (Ettore Lovecchio)

Running time: 98 minutes

 

Cast:

Padre – Edmund Purdom

Sharon – Marilena Possenti

Malo – John Manera (Colleferro Manera)

Hutton – Joseph Logan (Enrico Manera)

Barman – Angelo Casadei

With: Ivano Davoli (Giovanni Davoli), Livio Lorenzon, Aïché Nana (Aysé Nana), Jeanette Len (Giovanna Lenzi), Lucy Chevalier, Dean Strano (Dino Strano), Tony Bland (Antonio Bland), Romano Magnino, Sergio Serghey
 

An outlaw and his gang kidnap a bride during a wedding ceremony and take her to a monastery and demand that the padre marry them. He refuses and when they leave he follows them and is a witnesses to their crimes and eventually helps end their reign of terror and rescues the bride.

 

Youtube main theme link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fj4aDhckaQ0