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Valdez Is Coming / Io sono Valdez / Valdez
USA / Spain 1971
Director: Edwin Sherin
With Burt Lancaster, Susan Clark, Frank Silvera, Jon Cypher, Richard Jordan, Barton Heyman, Hector Elizondo, Phil Brown, Ralph Brown
Screenplay: Roland Kibbee, David Rayfiel, Elmore Leonard
Cinematography: Gábor Pogány
Music: Charles Gross
Burt Lancaster is a blue-eyed Mexican called Bob Valdez, a constable of a border town, who tries to interfere in a conflict involving a black man who is trapped by a gun runner (John Cypher) and his men. Cypher thinks the black man has killed his brother, and is desperate to bring him to (his kind of) justice, because some people have suggested it was he who did it, in order to marry his brother's beautiful bride (Susan Clark). Bob discovers that the black man is probably innocent, but is forced to kill him in self-defense. Cypher confesses the black man is not the person he was after, but rejects Bob's request for a financial compensation (a lousy $ 100) for the man's (pregnant and Indian) woman. After a few repeated request, Bob is tied to a cross by Cypher's men and sent into the desert, but he is miraculously saved and just won't give up. Tell them Valdez is coming ...
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Valdez Is Coming / Io sono Valdez / Valdez
USA / Spain 1971
Director: Edwin Sherin
With Burt Lancaster, Susan Clark, Frank Silvera, Jon Cypher, Richard Jordan, Barton Heyman, Hector Elizondo, Phil Brown, Ralph Brown
Screenplay: Roland Kibbee, David Rayfiel, Elmore Leonard
Cinematography: Gábor Pogány
Music: Charles Gross
Burt Lancaster is a blue-eyed Mexican called Bob Valdez, a constable of a border town, who tries to interfere in a conflict involving a black man who is trapped by a gun runner (John Cypher) and his men. Cypher thinks the black man has killed his brother, and is desperate to bring him to (his kind of) justice, because some people have suggested it was he who did it, in order to marry his brother's beautiful bride (Susan Clark). Bob discovers that the black man is probably innocent, but is forced to kill him in self-defense. Cypher confesses the black man is not the person he was after, but rejects Bob's request for a financial compensation (a lousy $ 100) for the man's (pregnant and Indian) woman. After a few repeated request, Bob is tied to a cross by Cypher's men and sent into the desert, but he is miraculously saved and just won't give up. Tell them Valdez is coming ...
