Sette winchester per un massacro
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Sette winchester per un massacro (1968 / Director: Enzo G. Castellari)
Also known as
US: Blake's Marauders | Payment in Blood | Renegade Riders | Seven Winchesters for a Massacre // UK: The Final Defeat
Winchester for Hire
Die Satansbrut des Colonel Blake | Seine Winchester pfeift das Lied vom Tod
7 Winchester pra una matanza
Sept wincester pour un massacre
Sete espingardas para un massacre
7 Winchester for att doda
Cast and crew
- Cast: Edd Byrnes (Stuart), Guy Madison (Colonel Thomas Blake), Ennio Girolami (as Thomas Moore) (Chamaco Gonzales), Luisa Baratto (as Louise Barrett)(Manuela), Attilio Severini (Mesa Alvarez), Federico Boido (as Rick Boyd) (Fred Calhoun), Adriana Facchetti (Miss Belle), Alfredo Runachagua (as Alfred Aysanoa) (Rios), Piero Vida (Le Sour), Giulio Maculani (sheriff), Rosella Bergamonti, Mirella Pampfili, Marco Mariani, Mario Papotti (as Mario Donen)
- Story: Tito Carpi, Enzo Girolami (as E.G. Rowland), Marino Girolami
- Screenplay: Tito Carpi, Enzo Girolami (as E.G. Rowland)
- Cinematography: Aldo Pinelli [Technicolor, Techniscope]
- Music: Franceso De Masi
- Song: "Seven Men" sung by Raoul
- Producer: Enzo Girolami (as E.G. Rowland)
Plot
Most men returned home after the Civil War, but others did not: "Some men had no homes to return to. Some refused to accept the taste of defeat. Some just enjoyed killing."
We meet one of the latter in Colonel Thomas Blake (Madison), "Gentleman Marauder," as he leads a violent pillaging with his Raiders: the gunman Chamaco (Girolami), the native knife-thrower Rios (Runachagua), the "patriotic" rebel Fred Calhoun (Boido), the whip-master Zeb Russel, and the rapist spur-fighter Mesa Alvarez (Severini).
Chamaco finds himself on the wrong end of a firing squad after tracking an ex-Confederate to interrogate him about General Beauregard's missing gold. He's saved by a stranger who calls himself Stuart (Byrnes). Stuart claims to know the location of Beauregard's strongbox, and so Chamaco takes him to Blake's camp. After a sort of initiation by the gang, Stuart leads Blake's men back across the border to Durango to retrieve the gold.
Along the way, they meet Manuela, a Southern sympathizer who takes to Blake but despises the rest of his gang. Stuart tells Blake part of the gold's location -- it's buried in an old Indian cemetery -- but doesn't give up the name on the grave. Stuart sets out separately from the gang to stage an ambush that will lead the sheriff and his posse away from town. But once he gets to Durango, a triple-cross is revealed: Stuart has been working with the sheriff.
Stuart goes to rendezvous later with the sheriff and finds him beaten to death. Blake's men surround him and beat him, but he doesn't give up the name on the grave. It's only at the hands of Manuela that he gives up the clue: the white eagle that marks the grave of Comanche hero "Django." Blake's men burn down the barn, but Stuart is able to free himself with a knife that Manuela left beside him. The smoke from the burning barn brings the sheriff's men back to Durango, where they're easily massacred by Blake and his gang.
Blake and his men go to the cave cemetery and dig under the white eagle, and find the strongbox. After some squabbling that leads to Blake killing one of his own men, they open the box and find worthless paper Confederate dollars. They hear the voice of Stuart mocking them from the mouth of the cave. Stuart stalks them in the dark and kills them one by one until eventually, Stuart and Blake face each other in the dark. Voices rushing into the cave distract Blake, and Stuart charges at him, tossing an old Indian spear into his chest. LeSouer leads into the cemetery the wives and mothers of the posse that Blake's men slaughtered. Stuart lowers his rifle, saying that a bullet is too good for Blake, that the townspeople will make him suffer more.
Stuart receives his reward of $10,000 -- $5,000 for Blake, $1,000 for each of his men -- and splits it with his partner: Manuela. He suggests they take a vacation, and she gives him a smile and a wink. But as they reach the signpost pointing to Dallas, something catches her eye: a wanted poster for "Kentucky Joe." They split at the fork, each with their reward money, and ride off into the proverbial sunset. Cat Stevens 03:17, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
DVD
- Italy: Available from Millennium Storm
- France: Available from Seven7
- USA: coming soon from Wild East
