Tempo di massacro
From The Spaghetti Western Database
Le colt cantarono la morte e fu... tempo di massacro (1966 / Director: Lucio Fulci)
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Also known as
Tempo di massacro (Italy) | Massacre Time | Colt Concert (U.K.) | Django the Runner (Netherlands) | Time for a Massacre | The Brute and the Beast (U.S.A.) | Django - Sein Gesangbuch war der Colt (Germany) | Django - der Hauch des Todes (Germany) | Tempo de massacre (Portugal)(Brazil) | Colttikonsertti (Finland) | Dollari laukaukesesta (Finland) | Django the Runner | Le ville sans sherif (France) | Le temps du massacre (France) | Temps de massacre (Spain) | Las pistolas cantaron la muerte (Spain) | Tiempo de massacre (Argentina) | En Dollar per Skott (Sweden) | Colttkonserti (Finland) | Massakro (Turkey) | Kirbaç altinda (Turkey)
Cast and crew
- Cast: Franco Nero (Tom Corbett/Django), George Hilton(Jeff 'Slim' Corbett), Nino Castelnuovo (Jason "Junior" Scott), Rina Franchetti (Mercedes), Linda Sini (as Lyn Shayne) (Brady), Giuseppe Addobbati (as John MacDouglas)(Jason Scott Sr.), Tom Felleghy (Murph), Franco Morici, Tchang Yu (undertaker), Aysanoa Runachagua (Souko), Roberto Alessandri (Scott henchman), Gino Barbacane (party guest), John Bartha (Carradine), Sal Borgese (Scott henchman), Mario Dionisi (uncredited), Franco Gulà (Jeremiah Farber), Enrico Pagano (bartender), Romano Puppo (Scott henchman), Attilio Severini (Scott henchman), Luciano Rossi (guest), Franco Morici
- Story: Fernando Di Leo
- Screenwriter: Fernando Di Leo
- Cinematography: Riccardo Pallottini [Eastmancolor, Cromoscope]
- Music: Coriolano (Lallo) Gori
- Song: "A Man Alone" sung by Sergio Endrigo
- Producer: Lucio Fulci, Oreste Coltellacci, Ugo Santalucia
Synopsis
Tom returns to his village and finds his entire family subject to the cruel dictatorship of Mr. Scott, the boss of the local criminals. When Tom tries to intervene, his family is slaughtered and he is almost beaten to death... The only brother left is Slim, who will confess to Tom to be Scott's illegitimate son! This revelation will not erase the love between the two young men who, together, revenge their family by killing Scott's men one by one. His junior son, the most sadist of them all, is killed last....
Review
Although primarily known for gruesome 1980s horror films like L'Aldila and Lo Squartatore di New York, it took cult Italian director Lucio Fulci until this bloody spaghetti Western -- his 17th film -- before he began exploring the dark recesses of insanity and Sadean bloodshed which marked his later work. Bolstered by a commanding star turn from 24-year old Franco Nero, fresh from another Western success in the same year's Django, this dark, violent story -- which many fans consider the first "true" Lucio Fulci film -- begins with a man's murder at the hands of the insane Jason "Junior" Scott (Nino Castelnuovo) and the credits appearing over his victim's blood washing downriver. The rest of the film deals with the efforts of young prospector Tom Corbett (Nero) to avenge the death of his father...or the person whom he believes to be his father, for the familial relations in this film are as twisted as Fulci's violent imagery. At times, the film presages the hallucinatory atmosphere of L'Aldila, with Corbett returning to his family farm only to find it destroyed, and wandering the barren, windswept wreckage amidst a group of foraging pigs. George Hilton turns in a fine performance as Corbett's orphan half-brother, Jeff, an alcoholic whose years of dissolution have curbed neither his gunslinging talents nor his thirst for revenge, and the supporting cast does well by Fernando di Leo's somber script. Giuseppe Addobbati co-stars with Tom Felleghy, Salvatore Borgese, and Lynn Shayne.
DVD
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External Links
- Internet Movie Database
- DVD Details @ Fistful of DVDs
- Review by Shobary
- Schnittbericht VPS - "ACTION" TV Fassung @ Terrorverlag.de
