50th Anniversary of “Price of Death”

Today marks thee 50^th Anniversary of “Price of Death’ co-directed by Vincent Thomas and Lorenzo Gicca Palli and starring Gianni Garko and Klaus Kinski. It tells the story of Chester Conway (Kinski), a crook accused of killing some people during a robbery in the saloon, was sentenced to death. The owner of the saloon, is not convinced of the guilt of Chester, and hires a lawyer named Plummer (Franco Abbina) to collect evidence to exonerate Conway. Plummer, in turn, turns to Silver (Gianni Garko), a retired gunman and offers a large sum to help him. Together they begin the investigation. With cunning, Silver induces the real culprit to betray himself and exonerates Conway, but in the meantime, it discovered that at the time of the robbery in the saloon there was also the killing of a young Mexican. Silver decides to deal with Conway and punish him for the heinous crime he did commit. 

 

Il venditore di morte – Italian title

La mano nascosta di Dio – Italian title

Revolverisankari – Finnish title

La vengeance de Dieu – French title

Le prix de la mort – French title

1000 Dolar Kopfgeld – German title

Sarg der blutigen Stiefel – German title

Sarg der blutigen Rache – German title

Der Galgen wartet schon, Amigo! – German title

El puño de Dios – Mexican title

O preco do odio – Portuguese title

La mano nascota di Dio – Spanish title

Persecucion mortal – Spanish title

Revolvermannen – Swedish title

The Last Gunfight – U.K. title

The Price of Death – U.S.A. title

 

A 1971 Italian film production [Mida Cinematografica (Rome)]

Producers: Albano Ingrami, Gabriele Silvestri

Director: Vincent Thomas/Juan Alberto (Lorenzo Gicca Palli)

Story: Enzo Gicca (Lorenzo Gicca Palli)

Screenplay: Enzo Gicca (Lorenzo Gicca Palli)

Cinematography: Franco Villa [Eastmancolor, Cromoscope]

Music: Mario Migliardi

Running time: 100 minutes

 

Story: Chester Conway, a crook accused of killing some people during a robbery in the saloon, was sentenced to death. The owner of the saloon, is not convinced of the guilt of Chester, and hires a lawyer named Plummer to collect evidence to exonerate Conway. Plummer, in turn, turns to Silver, a retired gunman and offers a large sum to help him. Together they begin the investigation. With cunning, Silver induces the real culprit to betray himself and exonerates Conway, but in the meantime it discovered that at the time of the robbery in the saloon there was also the killing of a young Mexican. Silver decides to deal with Conway and punish him for the heinous crime he committed.

 

Cast:

Silver – Gianni Garko (Giovanni Garcovich)

Chester Conway/Ray – Klaus Kinski (Nikolaus Nakaszynski)

Jeff Plummer – Franco Abbina

Polly Winters/Whitaker – Gely Genka (Mimma Biscardi)

Doctor Rosenthal/Rosencrantz – Alan Collins (Luciano Pigozzi)

Reverend Tiller – Giancarlo Prete

Sheriff Tom Stanton – Luciano Lorcas (Luciano Catenacci)

Manolo Paredes – Giovanni Sabbatini

Deputies – Augusto Funari, Giulino Dell’Ovo

Banker Randall – Luigi Casellato

Mrs. Randall – Laura Gianoli (Lavia Gianoli)

Prosecutor Coot – Andrea Scotti

Judge Atwell – Alfredo Rizzo

Grant – Giuseppe Castellano

Conchita – Silvana Bacci

Carmen Morales – Franca de Stratis

Appelby – Mario Dardanelli

Matt – Paolo Magalotti

Miners – Osiride Pevarello, Bruno Ukmar, Augusto Funari, Renzo Pevarella, Franco

     Ukmar, Omero Capanna

Townsman – Pietro Torrisi, Franz Colangeli, Silvio Klein, Nando Sarlo, Gualtiero

     Rispoli, John Dulaney, Aldo Barozzi, Oscar Giustini

Jury member – Maria Tedeshi

Courtroom spectators – Massimo Ciprari, Aldo Formisano, Mario Pascucci

Poker player – Calogero Azzareto, Augusto Innocenzi

Undertaker - Tchang Yu (Yuch Tchang)

Hangman - Fortunato Arena

Guman in saloon - Enrico Chiappafreddo

Barkeeper – Fulvio Pellegrini

Prostitute – Dominiqie Badou

Saloon patrons – Romano Milani, Nicola Palumbo, Franco