Bianco, il giallo, il nero, Il

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Il Bianco, il giallo, il nero (Year: 1975 / Director: Sergio Corbucci)

Also known as

Blanc, le jaune et le noir, Le (France) | Blanco, el amarillo y el negro, El (Spain) | Samurai (Canada: English title) (video title) | Shoot First... Ask Questions Later | The White, the Yellow, and the Black (U.S.A.) | Stetson - Drei Halunken erster Klasse (Germany) | Dispara primeiro... pergunta depois [Portugal] | Shoot First Ask Questions Later

Cast and crew

  • Cast: Giuliano Gemma (Blanc de Blanc/Stetson/Swiss), Eli Wallach(Sheriff Edward 'Black Jack' Gideon), Thomas Milian(Sakura), Manuel de Blas (Major Donovan), Jacques Berthier (Kelly Butler), Romano Puppo (Kady), Nazzareno Zamperla (Sergeant Donovan), Edy Biagetti, Hideo Saito (Yamoto/Osaka), France Nuyen (Console Giappones), Lorenzo Robledo, Giovanni Petrucci (as Giovanni Petti), Tito García (brother), Franco Tocci, Cris Huerta(Robinson Grasso), Rafael Albaicín, Lorenzo Piani, Carla Mancini, Mirta Miller (Redhead saloon girl), Pascual Barrachina, Anne Bataille, Alfonso de la Vega, Beni Deus, Ana Farra, Lisardo Iglesias, Luis Induni, María Isbert (Clementine Gideon), Víctor Israel (prisoner), Ricardo G. Lilló, José Panizo, Fernando San José, Joaquín Solís, Pietro Torrisi, Dan van Husen (albino), José Villasante, Ernesto Yáñez
  • Story: Marcello Coscia, Antonio Troiso
  • Screenplay: Mario Amendola, Renee Asseo, Luis G. de Blain, Sergio Corbucci, Santiago Moncada
  • Cinematography: Luis Cuadrado [Technicolor, CinemaScope 2,35:1]
  • Music: Guido & Maurizio De Angelis
  • Songs: "White, Yellow and Black", "Bump" sung by Guido & Maurizio De Angelis (as Dilly Dilly)
  • Screenplay: Mario Amendola, Santiago Moncada, Bruno Corbucci
  • Producer: Solino Norberto
  • Runtime: 111 min
  • Release Date: 17.1.75

Synopsis

Sheriff Carson, called "Black Jack" because is always dressed in that colour, is taking the salaries of all the sheriffs of the Country to Red Rock when he is attacked and robbed by an outlaw known as "the Swiss". As he makes his escape, the latter is involved in the attack on a special train transporting a Japanese Samurai and the Sacred Pony Called Shin-Me. Apaches, who demand an enormous sum, a million dollars in gold, for its ransom, steal the latter. The man who is to bring this sum is Sheriff Carson. He is assisted, in spite of himself, by the servant of the Samurai, Sakura by name, a fanatical and exalted person who, considering himself the cause of the Samurai's death, wants to get back Shin-Me at all costs. Meanwhile the Swiss, attracted by that million, which is shut up in an iron strongbox, seizes every opportunity to try to get possession of it. There follows a series of adventures or rather misadventures, complicated also by a strange pseudo-military band commanded by a bloodthirsty madman called Paleface, who wants at all costs to kill the sheriff, Sakura and the Swiss, to obtain possession of the ransom money.

In spite of everything the trio manages to reach the rendezvous, where the Indians were supposed to be waiting to receive the gold and hand over the Pony. Here they discover, however, that the Apaches are not real Indians, but bandits in disguise who have acted in this way to cast discredit on the real Indians and by order of the banker, Butler, that we have so far believed to be a worthy person, eager only to build the railway. There is a last bloody battle between Paleface's men and the few old Indians, supported, however, by our three heroes.

Review

The Emperor of Japan has sent the U.S. President a very special Asian horse. Three incredible rogues hear of this horse and decide to kidnap it for a $500,000 ransom. One of them, the "white" is Giuliano Gemma, a grandiose kleptomaniac. Tomás Milian is the "yellow," a Japanese samurai, and the last "black" is Eli Wallach, a goofy and gullible sheriff who has been victimized by "white" before, and will be again. The alliance between the three is a shaky thing, but "black" will have stumbled into clover.

DVD

  • Italy: Millenium Storm
  • USA: Miracle Pictures
  • Brazil: Ocean Pictures

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