Tuesday, August 4, 2020

The Sheriff of Silver Lake


From a screenplay by Angio Zane (Okay Sheriff), the short film was presented at the Venice exhibition in 1965, and is a very rare example of a spaghetti-western patchwork. The film assembles the TV carousels (commercials) of the Negroni Salami Company, that Zane produced and directed since the 1950s under the umbrella title "The Sheriff of the Silver Valley", and is definitely a pillar of Italian popular television memory. Zane, always in the wake of the Masked Rider, also mixes in a tot, with the comic Tex and The Little Ranger, delivering a light film, free of violence and designed for the whole family. It is an uninteresting work but highly sought after among collectors of the western genre today.


Lo sceriffo della valle d’argento – Italian title
The Sheriff of Silver Lake – English title

A 1965 Italian production
Producer: ‘
Director:
Story: Angio Zane
Screenplay: Angio Zane
Cinematography:
Music: Jackie Colt
Running time: 7 minutes

Cast:
Frank Senis (Franco Senise), Joe Bapee – Bruno Salvador, Gilles Toothless (Ignazio Colnaghi) Dario Cipani

Story: From a screenplay by Angio Zane (Okay Sheriff), the short film was presented at the Venice exhibition in 1965, and is a very rare example of a spaghetti-western patchwork. The film assembles the TV carousels (commercials) of the Negroni Salami Company, that Zane produced and directed since the 1950s under the umbrella title "The Sheriff of the Silver Valley", and is definitely a pillar of Italian popular television memory. Zane, always in the wake of the Masked Rider, also mixes in a tot, with the comic Tex and The Little Ranger, delivering a light film, free of violence and designed for the whole family. It is an uninteresting work but highly sought after among collectors of the western genre today.


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