Desperado, El
From The Spaghetti Western Database
El Desperado (1967 / Director: Franco Rossetti)
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Also known as
The Big Ripoff (U.S.A., cut version) | El desperado (Spain) | King of the West (U.K.) | The Dirty Outlaws (U.S.A.) | Die im Staub verrecken (Germany) | Escondido (Germany) | Escondido (Spain) | El desperado (France) | Massacre et le sang (France) | Sujos e Sem Lei (Brazil)
Cast and crew
- Cast: Andrea Giordana (as Chip Corman))(Steve/'El Desperado'), Rosemary Dexter (Katy), Franco Giornelli (Asher), Dana Ghia (Lucy), Aldo Berti (Jonat/Gionata), Giovanni Petrucci (Rico), John Bartha (Wallace), Giuseppe Castellano, Giorgio Gruden, Gianluigi Crescenzi (as Gian Luigi Crescenzi), Sandro Serafini, Piero Lulli (Sam), Antonio Cantafora (uncredited), Osiride Pevarello (uncredited), Pino Polidori (uncredited), Andrea Scotti (uncredited), Dino Strano(uncredited), Claudio Trionfi(uncredited), Dino Strano, Sandro Serafini, Gian Luigi, Giuseppe Palidori
- Story: Ugo Guerra, Franco Rossetti
- Screenplay: Ugo Guerra, Franco Rossetti, Vincenzo Cerami
- Cinematography: Angelo Filippini [Technicolor, Techniscope 2,35:1]
- Music: Gianni Ferrio
- Producers: Ugo Guerra, Franco Rossetti
- Runtime: 105 min
- Release Date: 30.9.67
Review
In this spaghetti western, set during the last days of the Civil War, an outlaw finds a dying Confederate officer. As the officer expires, he tells the outlaw about a cache of gold hidden in his blind father's home. The enterprising thief takes the dead man's clothes and tricks the father and his housekeeper into believing that he is the son. He is just about ready to begin looking for the gold when an outlaw gang comes to town and forces him to help them rob an army payroll wagon. He then tries to abscond with the loot. The bandits torture him, shoot him, and leave him for dead. Then they shoot the blind father. The hero gets better and gets grisly revenge upon the outlaws. He saves a special treat for the gang leader. First he uses mud to blind him. Then he puts a gun in his hand and kills him.
DVD
- Japan: SPO release
- USA: Available from WildEast (buy now at amazon.com)
- Brazil: Ocean Pictures release
