Rebeldes de Arizona, Los

Los rebeldes de Arizona (Spain · Italy 1970 / Director: José María Zabalza)

Also known as

Adios Cjamango (Italy) | Rebels of Arizona (USA) | Les Desperados de l’Arizona (France)

Synopsis

Zabalza directs this western with newlyweds Allan and Peggy getting in the way of landgrabbers who are awaiting the coming railroad. After being joined by an insistant gunman, they wander through a series of encounters with the railroad, gunrunners, Indians and thieves, always seeming to come out on the short end.

Credits

Cast: Carlos Quiney [as Charles Quiney / Montgomery Hood] (Allan Jackson / Cjamango), Claudia Gravy [as Julie Newman] (Peggy Morgan), Miguel de la Riva [as Michael Rivers] (Rudy), Dyanik Zurakowska (Helen/Jenny), José Truchado [as Frank Nicholson] (Mack), Luis Induni (Ralston, banker), Enrique Navarro (Juan), Guillermo Méndez (sheriff), Manuel Rojas (Manuel), César García (deputy [?]), Javier Rivera (Jones, railroad official), Juan Cortés (railroad representative), Pilar Vela (Maria), José María Zabalza (Sheriff Ben Harvey)
Also with: Ricardo Costa (saloon marriage counsellor), Antonio Orengo (merchant), Ramón Lillo (Jones assistant)
Additional Italian cast credits (all pseudonyms): William Berger, Arthur Walley, Nat Keller, John Steinberg, Ray Lewis, Jack Lockhart, Maureen Paget, Barbara Carson

Director: José María Zabalza [as Charles Thomas / Peter Harrison / Harry Freeman]
Story, screenplay: José María Zabalza [as Charles Thomas]
Cinematography: Leopoldo Villaseñor [Eastmancolor – Techniscope 2,35:1]
Music: Gianni Marchetti
Producer: Rafael Durán

Trivia

The tagline on the Spanish lobby cards reads: “¡Criminalmente tratados por una mal llamado justicia, tuvieron que convertirse en forajidos para sobrevivir!” (“Criminally treated by an evil called justice, they had to become outlaws to survive!”)
The Italian version’s pasticcio score uses as leitmotif Alessandro Alessandroni’s main theme from La taglia è tua … l’uomo l’ammazzo io, itself a pastiche of Ennio Morricone’s famous “coyote theme” from Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo.
One of three Westerns director Zabalza shot simultaneously in 1969; the other two were Plomo sobre Dallas and 20.000 dólares por un cadáver. In an interview with Nuevo Fotogramas magazine in September 1969, he boasted: “I shot all three in seven weeks, including Sundays and holidays, which makes it actually six weeks. You really don’t have to have any respect for cinema.” (“He rodado las tres en siete semanas, sin descontar domingos y fiestas, lo que las deja convertidas en seis. De verdad que no hay que tener ningún respeto al cine.” [1092, p. 6])

Versions and runtimes

Runtime: approx. 87 min

Release dates

March 20, 1970 (Spain)
September 7, 1970 (Italian censura)

Filming locations

Province of Madrid, Spain: Aldea del Fresno, Colmenar Viejo, Nuevo Baztán, Patones, Salinas Espartinas (Ciempozuelos), Villamanta
Province of Toledo, Spain: Seseña