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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.
spaghetti-western.net/index.php/Yankee
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.
