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Il grande silenzio / The Great Silence / Leichen pflastern seinen Weg
Italy 1968
Director: Sergio Corbucci
With Jean-Louis Trintignant, Klaus Kinski, Vonetta McGee, Frank Wolff, Luigi Pistilli, Mario Brega, Carlo D'Angelo
Screenplay: Sergio Corbucci, Vittoriano Petrilli, Mario Amendola, Bruno Corbucci
Cinematography: Silvano Ippoliti
Music: Ennio Morricone
Silence (Jean-Louis Trintignant) is a mute gunfighter with a sense for justice. He is hired by a woman whose husband has been killed to take revenge on Loco (Klaus Kinski), one of the bounty hunters hired to hunt down homeless poormen around Snow Hill. A new sheriff (Frank Wolff) and the local judge (Luigi Pistilli) make the matter a little complicated.
A Bullet for the General / Quien sabe? / Töte Amigo
Italy 1966
Director: Damiano Damiani
With Gian Maria Volonté, Lou Castel, Klaus Kinski, Martine Beswick, Jaime Fernandez
Screenplay: Salvatore Laurani, Franco Solinas
Cinematography: Antonio Secchi
Music: Luis Enriquez Bacalov, Ennio Morricone
During the height of the Mexican revolution a gang of bandits led by "El Chuncho" (Gian Maria Volonte) are stealing weapons and selling them on to the revolutions leader "General Elias" to aid the cause. During an attack the bandits are making on an armed train, the gang are unexpectedly helped by one of its passengers, the gringo "Bill Tate" (Lou Castel) who kills the driver and stops the train. "Tate" convinces the bandits he is a wanted man facing a death sentence in America. "Chuncho" takes an immediate liking to the young gringo and the gang agree to him joining them. The bandits weapon stealing exploits are greatly improved with the gringo aboard and the friendship between him and "Chuncho" grows. But unknown to the bandits "Bill Tate" has another agenda, one which will take him to the heart of the revolution and "General Elias" himself.
Django il bastardo / The Stranger's Gundown / Django und die Bande der Bluthunde
Italy 1969
Director: Sergio Garrone
With Anthony Steffen, Rada Rassimov, Paolo Gozlino, Luciano Rossi, Teodoro Corra
Screenplay: Antonio De Teffè, Sergio Garrone
Cinematography: Gino Santini
Music: Vasco & Mancuso
A mysterious, vengeful stranger rides into town and creates all sorts of havoc in this spaghetti western. It seems there are a number of people on his list and before he metes out justice to each one, he places a cross with that person's name on it in the middle of the street. The burning question becomes whether these people are dealing with a one man army of flesh and blood or an avenging angel of death.
California / California Addio / Lo chiamavano California / Der Mann aus Virginia
Italy / Spain 1977
Director: Michele Lupo
With Giuliano Gemma, William Berger, Raimund Harmstorf, Miguel Bose, Paola Bose, Chris Avram, Claudio Undari, Romano Puppo
Screenplay: Franco Bucceri, Nico Ducci, Roberto Leoni, Mino Roli
Cinematography: Alejandro Ulloa
Music: Gianni Ferrio
At the end of the Civil War, a Union soldier is released from prison and travels with a fellow prisoner to Missouri where his travelling companion is shot and hung for horse stealing. California decides to take the dead companion's belongings to his family's ranch, where he falls in love with his friend's sister. But then the "ghosts" of the war return in an unexpected way haunting him again.
Gentleman Jo... uccidi / Gentleman Killer / Shamango
Italy/Spain 1967
Director: Giorgio Stegani
With Anthony Steffen, Eduardo Fajardo, Silvia Solar, Vidal Molina, Anna Orso, Benito Stefanelli, Antonio Iranzo, Tomás Torres
Screenplay: Jaime Jesus Balcazar, Melchiade Coletti
Cinematography: Francisco Marín
Music: Bruno Nicolai, Ennio Morricone
Anthony Steffen fills the handcrafted boots of the titular Gentleman Killer. Operating in a dusty border town, hired gun Steffen takes on a ruthless outlaw gang. The crooks prove no match for the G.K., who plays just as dirty as they do. This sort of thing will be new to anyone who's never seen The Magnificent Seven (1960) or A Fistful of Dollars (1964). That's not to say that Gentleman Killer isn't entertaining... merely that it's hardly innovational.
I vigliacchi non pregano / The Taste of Vengeance / Cowards Don't Pray / Schweinehunde beten nicht
Italy/Spain 1968
Director: Mario Siciliano
With Gianni Garko, Ivan Rassimov, Elisa Montés, Roberto Miali, Carla Calò, José Jaspe, Luciano Pigozzi
Screenplay: Mario Siciliano, Dulio Chanetta, Ernesto Gastaldi
Cinematography: Gino Santi
Music: Gianni Marchetti
A group of Northern vigilantes, roaming the post Civil War south, attack and kill the fiancee of war veteran Brian (Garko), who is rescued by his friend, Daniel (Rassimov). The two, with brother Robert, set out to find the killers. But Brian, suffering from amnesia and becoming frustrated with not remembering the killer's faces, starts killing at random and loses the support of his two partners.
...e per tetto un cielo di stelle / And For a Roof a Sky Full of Stars / Amigos
Italy 1968
Director: Giulio Petroni
With Giuliano Gemma, Mario Adorf, Magda Konopka, Rick Boyd, Julie Menard, Anthony Dawson, Franco Balducci
Screenplay: Alberto Areal, Francesco Martino, Bernardino Zapponi
Cinematography: Carlo Carlini
Music: Ennio Morricone
The bandit Pratt, looking for Tim, who is responsible for the death of his two sons, attacks a caravan killing all the passengers. Harry, the vagabond, after having robbed the dead, casually meets Tim and they become friends. Running away together from Pratt, they reach Harry's farm, but their hiding place is soon discovered...
Giù la testa / A Fistful of Dynamite / Duck, You Sucker / Todesmelodie
Italy 1971
Director: Sergio Leone
With James Coburn, Rod Steiger, Romolo Valli, Maria Monti, Rik Battaglia, Franco Graziosi, Antoine Saint-John
Screenplay: Sergio Leone, Sergio Donati, Luciano Vincenzoni
Cinematography: Giuseppe Ruzzolini
Music: Ennio Morricone
John Mallory (Coburn), an IRA explosives specialist joins the Mexican bandit Juan (Steiger) in his quest to rob the bank of Mesa Verde. What Juan thinks is a nice joint venture to get rich, quickly turns out to become an operation for the revulutionary cause, and the two are being drawn into a fight against the Mexican army, treason and violence, the fight bearing painful similarities to Mallory's IRA past. The two form an unlikely but true friendship that is tested by a fight that is anything but simple.
Se sei vivo spara / Django Kill, if You Live, Shoot! / Töte, Django!
Italy 1967
Director: Giulio Questi
With Tomas Milian, Piero Lulli, Roberto Camardiel, Paco Sanz, Milo Quesada, Marilu Tolo, Raymond Lovelock
Screenplay: Franco Arcalli, Giulio Questi
Cinematography: Franco Delli Colli
Music: Ivan Vandor
Greed splits a gang of gold thieves, miraculously surviving the ensuing massacre "The Stranger" (Tomas Milian) sets out after his ex comrades for vengeance. A trail which leads him to a town "The Unhappy Place" where he discovers their sadistically murdered bodies. "The Stranger" finds himself caught between the towns two rival factions battling for the stolen gold. The townspeople led by a storekeeper called "Hagerman" (Francisco Sanz) who keeps his wife imprisoned and "The Muchachos" a gang of black uniformed homosexual Mexican bandits mounted on pure white horses, led by their adoring leader "Mr Sorrow" (Roberto Camardiel).
Se sei vivo spara / Django Kill, if You Live, Shoot! / Töte, Django!
Italy 1967
Director: Giulio Questi
With Tomas Milian, Piero Lulli, Roberto Camardiel, Paco Sanz, Milo Quesada, Marilu Tolo, Raymond Lovelock
Screenplay: Franco Arcalli, Giulio Questi
Cinematography: Franco Delli Colli
Music: Ivan Vandor
Greed splits a gang of gold thieves, miraculously surviving the ensuing massacre "The Stranger" (Tomas Milian) sets out after his ex comrades for vengeance. A trail which leads him to a town "The Unhappy Place" where he discovers their sadistically murdered bodies. "The Stranger" finds himself caught between the towns two rival factions battling for the stolen gold. The townspeople led by a storekeeper called "Hagerman" (Francisco Sanz) who keeps his wife imprisoned and "The Muchachos" a gang of black uniformed homosexual Mexican bandits mounted on pure white horses, led by their adoring leader "Mr Sorrow" (Roberto Camardiel).
Il Mio nome è Nessuno / My Name is Nobody / Mein Name ist Nobody
Italy / France / Germany 1973
Director: Tonino Valerii & Sergio Leone
With Terence Hill, Henry Fonda, Jean Martin, Piero Lulli, Mario Brega, Marc Mazza, Benito Stefanelli
Screenplay: Fulvio Morsella, Ernesto Gastaldi
Cinematography: Armando Nannuzzi, Giuseppe Ruzzolini
Music: Ennio Morricone
At the turn of the century the aging gunfighter, Jack Beauregard is on his way back to France, the country of his origin. On his way he tries to clear the death of his brother, when he meets a nobody who wants to become a somebody by pushing Beauregard into a last sensational gunfight with the Wild Bunch, to achieve him a legendary status. A fame this nobody is then immediately ready to inherit.
Un genio, due compari, un pollo / A Genius, Two Partners and a Dupe / Nobody ist der Größte
Italy / France / West Germany 1975
Director: Damiano Damiani
With Terence Hill, Miou-Miou, Robert Charlebois, Patrick McGoohan, Raimund Harmstorf, Piero Vida, Rik Battaglia, Klaus Kinski, Mario Brega
Screenplay: Damiano Damiani, Fulvio Morsella, Ernesto Gastaldi
Cinematography: Giuseppe Ruzzolini
Music: Ennio Morricone
An amiable con man sets out to land a big score from a man even less honorable than himself in this comic spaghetti western. Joe Thanks (Terence Hill) is a swindler and quick-draw artist who wanders into a dusty little town after literally falling out of a stagecoach while asleep. After besting card-sharp Doc Foster (Klaus Kinski) in a public shootout, Joe reconnects with his old friend, Steam Engine Bill (Robert Charlebois), who is traveling with his beautiful but dizzy-headed girlfriend, Lucy (Miou-Miou). Joe has learned that an officer in the U.S. Cavalry, is escorting a $300,000 fortune that's been earmarked for Indian relief efforts; however, the commanding officer of the local fort, Major Cabot (Patrick McGoohan) has no intention of actually delivering the cash, so Joe hatches a scheme to take it for himself.
While his name does not appear in the credits, Sergio Leone had produced "Un Genio, Due Compari, Un Pollo" (aka A Genius, Two Partners, and a Dupe) via his shareholding on the production company Rafran, and also directed the pre-credit sequence (which bears a few of his directing trademarks without being anything special), with Damiano Damiani helming the rest of the picture and receiving the screen credit. "It was an amusing script, directed by someone with no sense of humour at all" (producer Fulvio Morsella).
In contrast to "My Name Is Nobody", Leone never got suspected of being the actual director, and most probably also never wanted to be. "The film disappointed me so much that I decided to produce no more westerns" (Sergio Leone).
Per un pugno di dollari / A Fistful of Dollars / Für eine Handvoll Dollar
Italy / Spain / West Germany 1964
Director: Sergio Leone
With Clint Eastwood, Gian Maria Volonte, José Calvo, Marianne Koch, Mario Brega, Aldo Sambrell, Benito Stefanelli
Screenplay: Sergio Leone, Victor Andre Cantena, Fernando di Leo, Jamie Comas, Duccio Tessari
Cinematography: Massimo Dallamano
Music: Ennio Morricone
By the time Sergio Leone made this film, Italians had already produced about 20 films ironically labelled "spaghetti westerns." Leone approached the genre with great love and humor. Although the plot was admittedly borrowed from Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo (1961), Leone managed to create a work of his own that would serve as a model for many films to come. Clint Eastwood plays a cynical gunfighter who comes to a small border town and offers his services to two rivaling gangs. Neither gang is aware of his double play, and each thinks it is using him, but the stranger will outwit them both. The picture was the first installment in a cycle commonly known as the "Dollars" trilogy. Later, United Artists, who distributed it in the U.S., coined another term for it: the "Man With No Name" trilogy. While not as impressive as its follow-ups For a Few Dollars More (1965) and The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966), A Fistful of Dollars contains all of Leone's eventual trademarks: taciturn characters, precise framing, extreme close-ups, and the haunting music of Ennio Morricone. Not released in the U.S. until 1967 due to copyright problems, the film was decisive in both Clint Eastwood's career and the recognition of the Italian western.
Per qualche dollaro in più / For a Few Dollars More / Für ein paar Dollar mehr
Italy / Spain / West Germany 1965
Director: Sergio Leone
With Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Gian Maria Volonté, Klaus Kinski, Mario Brega, Luigi Pistilli, Roberto Camardiel
Screenplay: Sergio Leone, Fulvio Morsella, Luciano Vincenzoni, Fernando Di Leo, Sergio Donati
Cinematography: Massimo Dallamano
Music: Ennio Morricone
Clint Eastwood returns from "Per un pugno di dollari" playing a bounty hunter. In order to hunt mentally unstable bank robber Indio, played by Gian Maria Volonté, who has just escaped from prison he teams up with Colonel Mortimer, played by Lee Van Cleef. Together they set about infiltrating Indio's gang and after escaping to mexico following a bank robbery they must kill the gang and Indio to collect the reward. Colonel Mortimer has personal reasons for wanting Indio dead, which allows Leone his first use of the flashback sequences, and allows greater integration of the music into story of the film.
Uno dopo l'altro / One After Another / Von Django - mit den besten Empfehlungen
Italy/Spain 1968
Director: Nick Nostro
With Richard Harrison, Pamela Tudor, Paolo Gozlino, José Bódalo, Jolanda Modio, Hugo Blanco, José Manuel Martín, Fortunato Arena
Screenplay: Mariano de Lope, Nick Nostro, Giovanni Simonelli, Carlos E. Rodriguez
Cinematography: Mario Pacheco
Music: Fred Bongusto, Berto Pisano
Bespectacled pistolero Stan Ross comes to Canyon City and becomes involved with two feuding factions, after a clerk has been killed by the banker Jefferson during a botched holdup, while robbing his own bank.
Preparati la bara! / Viva Django! / Django, Prepare a Coffin / Django und die Bande der Gehenkten
Italy 1967
Director: Ferdinando Baldi
With Terence Hill, Horst Frank, Luigi Montefiore, José Torres, Pinuccio Ardia, Guido Lollobrigida, Barbara Simon, Spartaco Conversi, Luciano Rossi
Screenplay: Franco Rossetti, Ferdinando Baldi
Cinematography: Enzo Barboni
Music: Gianfranco Reverberi & Gian Piero Reverberi
Django is betrayed by a former friend of his, a politician (Frank), who had his wife killed by a gunman named Lucas (Eastman). Setting out for revenge, he stages a number of fake executions only to use those freed men, who are now indebted to him, as his gang to put an end to Lucas' bandits.
Il grande duello / The Grand Duel / The Big Showdown / Drei Vaterunser für vier Halunken
Italy 1972
Director: Giancarlo Santi
With Lee Van Cleef, Horst Frank, Alberto Dentice, Marc Mazza, Jess Hahn, Antonio Casale, Klaus Grünberg
Screenplay: Ernesto Gastaldi
Cinematography: Mario Vulpiani
Music: Luis Bacalov, Sergio Bardotti
"Il Grande Duello" is the original title of this Italian/French/West German production. The titular duel pits hard-bitten gunslinger Clayton (Lee Van Cleef) against the equally gritty Saxon (Horst Frank). Before this takes place, however, Clayton champions the cause of Newland (Peter O'Brien) a young punk who'd been framed on a murder charge. One of the beauties of the spaghetti western genre is that there were seldom any clearly defined Good or Bad Guys. This helped to keep the audience guessing as to the ultimate outcome of the film, thereby increasing the entertainment value tenfold.
Da uomo a uomo / Death Rides a Horse / Die Rechnung wird mit Blei bezahlt
Italy 1967
Director: Giulio Petroni
With Lee Van Cleef, John Phillip Law, Luigi Pistilli, Anthony Dawson, Jose Torres, Carla Cassola, Archie Savage, Mario Brega
Screenplay: Luciano Vincenzoni
Cinematography: Carlo Carlini
Music: Ennio Morricone
Bill (Law), who as a child witnesses the slaughter of his family, sets out to track down the outlaws from the clues he remembers from that night. Ryan (Van Cleef), being released from prison, is on the trail of the same gang having been robbed and double-crossed by them. What starts as a rivalry turns into a deadly cooperation, and the discovery of their linked pasts.
Tepepa / Blood and Guns / Durch die Hölle, Companeros
Italy/Spain 1968
Director: Giulio Petroni
With Tomas Milian, John Steiner, Orson Welles, Luciano Casamonica, Angel Ortiz, Anna Maria Lanciaprima, José Torres, Paloma Cela, George Wang
Screenplay: Ivan Della Mea, Franco Solinas, Giulio Petroni
Cinematography: Francisco Marín
Music: Ennio Morricone
An English doctor saves a Mexican revolutionary leader (Tepepa) from the firing squad in order to exact personal revenge for the death of his fiancée. But things are not so simple, as the revolutionary is a popular man with the masses and his version of events throws doubt as to his guilt in the matter. The doctor is not swayed but, as political hostilities are renewed, both men are engulfed in the increasing violence and find themselves pursued by the ruthless Colonel Carrosco who is determined to recapture Tepepa and make an example of him to the peons who see him as a hero.
La morte non conta i dollari / No Killing Without Dollars / Der Tod zählt keine Dollar
Italy 1967
Director: Riccardo Freda
With Mark Damon, Alan Collins, Stephen Forsyth, Luciana Gilli, Nello Pazzafini, Ignazio Spalla, Pamela Tudor
Screenplay: Riccardo Freda
Cinematography: Gabor Pogany
Music: Nora Orlandi, Robby Poitevin
Lawrence and Jane White are determined to find the man responsible for their father's murder. They suspect a number of people in the town of Owell Rock and hire a professional gunfighter to help them in their quest for vengeance...
Sugar Colt / Rocco - der Mann mit den zwei Gesichtern
Italy/Spain 1966
Director: Franco Giraldi
With Jack Betts, Soledad Miranda, Giuliano Raffaelli, Gina Rovere, Erno Crisa, Fortunato Arena, Luis Barboo, Frank Braña
Screenplay: Giuseppe Mangione, Franco Giraldi, Augusto Finocchi, Fernando di Leo, Alessandro Continenza
Cinematography: Alejandro Ulloa
Music: Luis Enriquez Bacalov
Sugar Colt is an undercover agent who travels to the town of Snake Valley to investigate the disappearance of a group of U.S army officers who are being held for ransom. Posing as a doctor, Colt unravels the mystery surrounding the men's disappearance while battling the town's army of henchmen and eventually has to confront the evil town boss in order to liberate the captives. Along the way he wins the affections and respect of the lovely Soledad Miranda.
Prega il morto e ammazza il vivo / Shoot the Living, Pray for the Dead / Der Mörder des Klans
Italy 1971
Director: Giuseppe Vari
With Klaus Kinski, Victoria Zinny, Paolo Casella, Dino Strano, Patrizia Adiutori, Anthony Rock
Screenplay: Adriano Bolzoni
Cinematography: Franco Villa
Music: Mario Migliardi
A band of killers led by Hogan (Kinski) set out for Mexico with stolen gold. A mysterious stranger agrees to guide them for a cut of the gold. But the stranger has other motives. The first half of the movie takes part in a waystation the other half in the desert.
Un fiume di dollari / The Hills Run Red / Eine Flut von Dollars
Italy 1966
Director: Carlo Lizzani
With Thomas Hunter, Henry Silva, Dan Duryea, Nicoletta Machiavelli, Gianna Serra, Nando Gazzolo, Loris Loddi
Screenplay: Piero Regnoli
Cinematography: Antonio Secchi
Music: Ennio Morricone
Two confederate soldiers survive the War and swipe an army payroll. To escape, one of them plays decoy while the other flees with the loot. The decoy is captured and sentenced to five years in prison. After he has served his sentence, he is dismayed and enraged when he discovers that his "pal" has broken his word and is responsible for his wife's death. He seeks his ex-friend for revenge, but this one has become wealthy and powerful, and his killers are already waiting for the avenger.
Sella d'argento / Silver Saddle / Silbersattel
Italy 1978
Director: Lucio Fulci
With Geoffrey Lewis, Sven Valsecchi, Ettore Manni, Donal O'Brien, Gianni De Luigi, Cinzia Monreale, Aldo Sambrell
Screenplay: Adriano Bolzoni
Cinematography: Sergio Salvati
Music: Fabio Frizzi, Vince Tempera, Franco Bixio
A ten year old boy must watch how his father is killed by a professional gunman, paid by a certain Mr. Barrett. He shoots the gunman in the back with his father's shotgun and steals his silver saddle. Twenty years later he has become a famous gunman, recognized by most people by his beautiful silver saddle. When he gets an offer to do a professional killing, he refuses (his gun's not for hire), but he changes his mind when he hears the name of the victim is Barrett. But then the intended victim turns out to be a ten year old boy...
Una Pistola per Ringo / A Pistol for Ringo / Ballad of Death Valley / Eine Pistole für Ringo
Italy 1965
Director: Duccio Tessari
With Giuliano Gemma, Fernando Sancho, George Martin, Lorella de Luca, Nieves Navarro, Antonio Casas
Screenplay: Duccio Tessari, Alfonso Balcazar
Cinematography: Francisco Marín
Music: Ennio Morricone
In a border town the famous gunslinger Ringo kills four people out of self defense but is arrested nevertheless. Meanwhile a gang of Mexicans cross the border and rob the local bank. Their leader is wounded when they try to escape and therefore the bandits take refuge on a nearby ranch, taking the occupants hostage. The sheriff is reluctant to take action because his fiancée is among the hostages. The only one who can help him now is Ringo, who is set free and asked to infiltrate the gang...
Il ritorno di Ringo / The Return of Ringo / Ringo kommt zurück / Gnade spricht Gott - Amen mein Colt
Italy 1965
Director: Duccio Tessari
With Giuliano Gemma, Fernando Sancho, George Martin, Lorella de Luca, Nieves Navarro, Antonio Casas
Screenplay: Duccio Tessari, Fernando Di Leo, Alfonso Balcazar
Cinematography: Francisco Marín
Music: Ennio Morricone
The only 'official' sequel to Tessari's very popular A Pistol For Ringo, also starring Giuliano Gemma, this film is a loose retelling of the ancient greek story of The Odyssey. Gemma, as Montgomery Brown, plays the Odysseus / Ulysses role, returning from the civil war where he was presumed to have died, to find his house overrun by bandits and his wife engaged to one of the leaders, Paco Fuentes, played by the always devilish George Martin. In an attempt to discover if his wife, Hally, has remained faithful, he dyes his hair and takes on the disguise of a mestizo peasant, gradually gaining access to his old home and learning in the process that he has a daughter who is being used by Paco as a hold on Hally in order to make her compliant in his desire to marry her. Rallying the townspeople into action, Ringo sets about defeating the Fuentes brothers and winning back his family.
Vengeance is mine / 100.000 Dollars Per Killing / Per 100.000 dollari ti ammazzo / Django - der Bastard
Italy 1967
Director: Giovanni Fago
With Gianni Garko, Claudio Camaso, Piero Lulli, Fernando Sancho, Carlo Gaddi
Screenplay: Ernesto Gastaldi
Cinematography: Federico Zanni
Music: Nora Orlandi
Gianni Garko and Claudio Camaso are half-brothers on opposite sides of the law. One, a bounty hunter, the other, a deserter turned outlaw. The one thing they have in common is their shared hatred of each other which reaches back to their family background. John was in prison after being falsely accused by Clint for killing his father.
Un treno per Durango / A Train for Durango / Der letzte Zug nach Durango
Italy/Spain 1967
Director: Mario Caiano
With Anthony Steffen, Mark Damon, Enrico Maria Salerno, Dominique Boschero, Roberto Camardiel, José Bódalo, Manuel Zarzo, Aldo Sambrell
Cinematography: Enzo Barboni
Music: Carlo Rustichelli
Gringo (Anthony Steffen) and Luca (Enrico Maria Salerno) board the train for Durango which is robbed by Mexican bandits. The safe is stolen, a French madame is kidnapped, and everyone is killed except Luca and Gringo who find the keys and take off to steal back the safe, aided by a mysterious American and his arsenal of weaponry.
10.000 Dollars for a Massacre / 10.000 dollari per un massacro / Django - 10.000 Blutige Dollar
Italy 1967
Director: Romolo Guerrieri
With Gianni Garko, Loredana Nusciak, Claudio Camaso, Fernando Sancho, Fidel Gonzalez
Screenplay: Franco Fogagnolo, Ernesto Gastaldi, Luciano Martino, Sauro Scavolini
Cinematography: Federico Zanni
Music: Nora Orlandi
Django has become a bounty hunter who is asked to chase a villain who has kidnapped a young girl, but because he is not offered enough money, he decides to join forces with the bandit. But hes double-crossed by the ruthless villain, who also kills the woman he was about to marry. Once again Django will have to take revenge...
La Collina degli stivali / Boot Hill / Hügel der blutigen Stiefel / Zwei haun auf den Putz
Italy 1969
Director: Giuseppe Colizzi
With Terence Hill, Bud Spencer, Woody Strode, Eduardo Ciannelli, Enzo Fiermonte, Glauco Onorato
Screenplay: Giuseppe Colizzi
Cinematography: Marcello Masciocchi
Music: Carlo Rustichelli
Cat Stevens is wounded in an ambush by the mining company's men who want his claim. He hides out with a travelling circus, but when one of theirs is killed by the company's henchmen, former gunfighter Thomas joins up with Cat. They then fetch Hutch Bessy and his deaf mute sidekick to get even with the company and avenge the murder of the acrobat.
Spara, Gringo, Spara / Shoot, Gringo, Shoot / The Longest Hunt / Im Staub der Sonne
Italy 1968
Director: Bruno Corbucci
With Brian Kelly, Fabrizio Moroni, Keenan Wynn, Erika Blanc, Folco Lulli, Rik Battaglia, Linda Sini, Giovanni Pallavicino
Screenplay: Mario Amendola, Bruno Corbucci
Cinematography: Fausto Zuccoli
Music: Sante Maria Romitelli
A landowner hires gunman Stark to bring his stepson Fidel back, who ran away and joined a band of outlaws. Stark develops a strategy to lure Fidel away from the gang and trick everyone, but Fidel doesn't really want to get back to his stepfather, and a cat and mouse game unfolds.
Killer Kid / Chamaco
Italy 1967
Director: Leopoldo Savona
With Anthony Steffen, Luisa Baratto, Fernando Sancho, Giovanni Cianfriglia, Tom Felleghy, Fedele Gentile, Howard Nelson Rubien
Screenplay: Sergio Garrone, Ottavio Poggi, Leopoldo Savona
Cinematography: Sandro Mancori
Music: Berto Pisano
Captain Morrison crosses the border into Mexico disguised as the famous Killer Kid to disable the gun running for the revolutionary forces. As he falls in love with the daughter of the wise guerilla leader, El Santo, and understands the ideals that guide the rebels in their fight against the cruelty and corruption of the government's men, he undergoes conflict with his mission to destroy the arms.
Dove si spara di piu / Fury of Johnny Kid / Ride for a Massacre / Glut der Sonne
Italy/Spain 1967
Director: Gianni Puccini
With Peter Lee Lawrence, Cristina Galbo, Maria Cuadra, Andrés Mejuto, Piero Lulli, Angel Alvarez, Peter Martell, Jacinto Molina
Screenplay: María del Carmen Martínez Román, Bruno Baratti
Cinematography: Mario Montuori
Music: Gino Peguri
Two family clans have always been enemies; they spend their time hating and killing each other. The daughter of the Campos family and the son of the Mounter family fall in love, thus causing further hatred and deaths.
La Collina degli stivali / Boot Hill / Hügel der blutigen Stiefel / Zwei haun auf den Putz
Italy 1969
Director: Giuseppe Colizzi
With Terence Hill, Bud Spencer, Woody Strode, Eduardo Ciannelli, Enzo Fiermonte, Glauco Onorato
Screenplay: Giuseppe Colizzi
Cinematography: Marcello Masciocchi
Music: Carlo Rustichelli
Cat Stevens is wounded in an ambush by the mining company's men who want his claim. He hides out with a travelling circus, but when one of theirs is killed by the company's henchmen, former gunfighter Thomas joins up with Cat. They then fetch Hutch Bessy and his deaf mute sidekick to get even with the company and avenge the murder of the acrobat.
Yankee / L'Americano
Italy/Spain 1966
Director: Tinto Brass
With Philippe Leroy, Adolfo Celi, Mirella Martin, Tomas Torres, Víctor Israel, Valentino Macchi, Francisco Sanz, Franco De Rosa, Pasquale Basile, Jacques Herlin
Screenplay: Tinto Brass, Alberto Silvestri, Giancarlo Fusco, Alfonso Balcazar Granda
Cinematography: Alfio Contini
Music: Nino Rosso
Yankee (Philippe Leroy in his first western) is a bounty killer who decides to take on a bandit chief and his henchmen when he realises the prices on all their heads adds up to a tidy sum. The bandit, El Grande Concho (Adolfo Celi), is lord of the entire region and resides like a king at court in an abandoned church surrounded by his entourage of philosopher, painter, fortune teller and soldiers; robbing and murdering anyone who ventures into his territory. Add to this a shipment of gold big enough to make them all rich beyond their dreams and the stage is set for gunplay, intrigue and cruelty as the lone gunman sets his wits and skills against the might of the megalomaniac leader.
A Coffin for the Sheriff / Una bara per lo sceriffo / Eine Bahre für den Sheriff
Italy 1965
Director: Mario Caiano
With Anthony Steffen, Eduardo Fajardo, George Rigaud, Luciana Gilli, Armando Calvo, Fulvia Franco
Screenplay: David Moreno, Guido Malatesta
Cinematography: Julio Ortas
Music: Francesco De Masi
Shenandoah (Steffen) works his way into a band of highwaymen led by Rojo (Armando Calvo). His initiation consists of hunting down and killing a member of the gang who has 12 bullets while he is only given 2 bullets. When the bandits attempt to rob a wealthy rancher, whom Shenandoah knows, he warns him. The outlaws begin to suspect they were betrayed and commence to rough Shenandoah up. Shenandoah then reveals his true reason for joining the gang; one of them killed his wife and he is there for retribution.
Django
Italy 1966
Director: Sergio Corbucci
With Franco Nero, José Bódalo, Loredana Nusciak, Angel Alvarez, Eduardo Fajardo, Rafael Albaicin
Screenplay: Sergio Corbucci, Bruno Corbucci, Franco Rosetti, Jose G. Maesso, Piero Vivarelli
Cinematography: Enzo Barboni
Music: Luis Enriquez Bacalov
Django (Franco Nero) rides into a town controlled by two rival factions: a gang of racist KKK types wearing red hoods and a gang of gold hungry Mexicans. In Fistful of Dollars style, Django plays both gangs against each other in an attempt to get money and possibly revenge. Django's motivations for his actions are left vague throughout, although several possibilities are hinted at.
This film was very successful and spawned hundreds of immitators. If you see any movie today that has "Django" in the title or Django as the name of a major character, then that's because of this film. The only true sequel is "Django 2: il grande ritorno". This film also created the "look" of Django (army coat, hat) and came up with the gatling gun. Sergio Corbucci made quite a number of films before this one. Mark Damon and Sergio Corbucci originally wrote this based upon an idea of Corbucci, but Damon ended up not starring, instead, Corbucci cast an unknown gas station worker called Franco Nero.
The Stranger Returns / Un uomo, un cavallo, una pistola / Western-Jack
Italy 1967
Director: Luigi Vanzi
With Tony Anthony, Dan Vadis, Daniele Vargas, Marco Guglielmi, Jill Banner, Marina Berti, Raf Baldassarre
Screenplay: Bob Ensescalle, Giuseppe Mangione
Cinematography: Marcello Masciocchi
Music: Stelvio Cipriani
The Stranger happens across a murdered postal inspector and a gang of bandits set on a prize of stolen gold which should be transported in a stagecoach. The Stranger, a sharpshooter named En plein and a treacherous postal agent try to get their hands on the gold.
The Stranger Returns / Un uomo, un cavallo, una pistola / Western-Jack
Italy 1967
Director: Luigi Vanzi
With Tony Anthony, Dan Vadis, Daniele Vargas, Marco Guglielmi, Jill Banner, Marina Berti, Raf Baldassarre
Screenplay: Bob Ensescalle, Giuseppe Mangione
Cinematography: Marcello Masciocchi
Music: Stelvio Cipriani
The Stranger happens across a murdered postal inspector and a gang of bandits set on a prize of stolen gold which should be transported in a stagecoach. The Stranger, a sharpshooter named En plein and a treacherous postal agent try to get their hands on the gold.
100 Rifles / El Verdugo / 100 Gewehre
USA 1968
Director: Tom Gries
With Jim Brown, Raquel Welch, Burt Reynolds, Fernando Lamas, Dan O'Herlihy, Eric Braeden, Michael Forest, Aldo Sambrell
Screenplay: Clair Huffaker, Tom Gries
Cinematography: Cecilio Paniagua
Music: Jerry Goldsmith
In 1912 Lydecker, a U.S. sheriff, crosses into Mexico in pursuit of Yaqui Joe, an outlaw, and becomes involved in a revolution.


