Today marks the 50th anniversary of the premier of “The Three Musketeers of the West” directed by Bruno Corbucci and starring Timothy Brent, Pietro Tordi, George Eastman and Eduardo Fajardo. It is a comedy film that takes place at the Mexican border in the late 1800’s, the young Dart (Timothy Brent) enlists in the famous Texas Rangers. Assigned to cover the Mexican, U.S border, the boy discovers that the businessman Horatio Maurice DeLuc (Eduardo Fajardo) is in talks with General Ortega (Vicente Roca), who would give him illegally the rights to certain mining concessions. Reporting the transaction to his superiors, he along with two accomplices, Dart is able to ruin DeLuc’s plans and operations.
The film ranks 106 on the Italian earnings list bringing
in 532,137 lire.
Tutti per uno, botte per tutti – Italian title
Todos para uon, golpes para todes – Spanish title
Lännen muskettisoturit – Finnish title
Les rangers défient les karatékas – French title
Les trois mousquetaires de l’Ouest – French title
Alle für einen - Prügel für alle – German title
Kataigida me karate sto Far West – Greek title
4 yperohoi Trinita – Greek title
Västerns vildaste musketörer – Swedish title
The Three Musketeers of the West – English title
A 1973 Italian, Spanish film co-production [Capitolina
Produzioni Cinematografica
(Rome), Dieter
Geisier Filmproduktion (Munich), Star Films (Madrid)]
Producers: Edmondo Amati, Antonio Mazzi
Director: B. Corbucci (Bruno Corbucci)
Story: Tito Casrpi
Screenplay: B. Corbucci (Bruno Corbucci), Tito Carpi,
Leonardo Martin (Leonardo
Mendez), Peter
Berling
Cinematography: Rafael Pacheco (Rafale de Usa)
[Technicolor, Techniscope]
Music: Carlo Rustichelli
Running time: 95 minutes
Cast:
Dart Coldwater, Jr. – Timothy Brent (Giancarlo Prete)
Dart ‘Pa’ Coldwater Sr. – Pietro Torti (Pietro Tordi)
Mac Athos/Mercathos – George Eastman (Luigi Montefiori)
Horatio Maurice DeLuc – Eduardo Fajardo
Dr. Alice Ferguson – Karin Schubert
Portland – Chris Huerta (Cris Brieva)
General Ortega – Vicente Roca
Baron von Horn - Max Turilli (Marcello Turilli)
Cheese Valley band leader – Carlo Rustichelli
Aramirez – Leo Anchóriz (Leopoldo Fustel)
Chen Li – Li Chen (Hsueh Han)
Senor Mendoza – José Canalejas
Domingo – Fabian Conde
Juanita – Virginia Samso (Virginia Garcia)
Juan – Adolfo Thous
Esteban – Jose Luis Zalde (Jose Luis Lizalde)
Mayor of Bordertown – Juan Casalilla (Juan Cazalilla)
Sheriff of Fort Delivery – Francisco Camoiras
Fort Delivery saloon greeter - Maribel Hidalgo (Maria
Hidalgo)
Baron von Grubben - Max Turilli (Marcello Turilli)
Gangsters – Giovanni Ukmar, Giancarlo Ukmar
Man whistling – Jose Jaspe (José Rivas)
Fire eater – Osiride Pevarello
Grabie – Luis Gaspar (Luis Osorio)
Lover in opening scene – Eleonora Giorgi
Tattooed cowboy - Bruno Boschetti
Circus performer – Franca Scagnetti
Square dance caller - Vittorio Congia
Square dance attendee – Gilberto Galmiberti, Margarete
Horowitz, Virgilio Ponti,
Angelo Casadei
Circus employees – Franca Scagnetti, Adriana Bruno
Circus acrobat – Franco Ukmar
With: Peter Berling, Rafael Albaicin (Ignacio Escudero), Roberto Chiappa, Luigi Leoni, Giuseppe Cozzi, Lorenzo Ramirez, Luigi Antonio Guerra, Antonio Ramis, Juan Amigo, Frank Clement (Francisco Clement), Hernando Rodriguez, Lisardo de la Iglesia
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