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El desperado (Italy 1967 / Director: Franco Rossetti)

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• Runtime: 105 min
• Release Date: 30.9.67

Also known as

The Big Ripoff (U.S.A., cut version) | El desesperado (Spain) | King of the West (U.K.) | The Dirty Outlaws (U.S.A.) | Die im Staub verrecken (Germany) | Halleluja Escondido (Germany) | Escondido (Germany) | Escondido (Spain) | El desperado (France) | Massacre et le sang (France) | Le boue...le massacre...et le mort (France) | Sujos e Sem Lei (Brazil) | Texas desperados (Greece)

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), 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
• Song: "The Desperado" sung by John Balfour
• Producers: Ugo Guerra, Franco Rossetti

Synopsis

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.

Comment

With El desperado screenplay writer Franco Rossetti (Django amongst others) moved himself successfully into the directing chair, but it remained his only SW. It is a well made western which tells a brutish story in a gritty and violent way.

by Stanton

Links

• Internet Movie Database
• DVD Details @ A Fistful of DVDs
• Review by Shobary
• Review at Fistful of Pasta