Friday, September 29, 2023

50th Anniversary of the premier of “Three Musketeers of the West”


 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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