Texas, Addio
From The Spaghetti Western Database
Texas, Addio (1966 / Director: Ferdinando Baldi)
- Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
- Running time: 88:21 Min (PAL) / 92 min (NTSC)
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Also known as
Texas, Adios (USA) | The Avenger (U.S.A.) | Django 2 (Germany) | Django - Der Rächer (Germany) | Adiós, Texas (Spain) | Texas, Adiós (Latin America) | Texas Adios (Finland) | Texas, addio (France) | Adeus Texas (Portugal) | Texas Adios (Sweden) | A Fistful of Bullets, Texas Goodbye | Wanted Dead or Alive
Cast and Crew
- Cast: Franco Nero (Burt Sullivan/Django), Luigi Pistilli (lawyer), Alberto dell'Acqua (Jim Sullivan), Hugo Blanco (Pedro), Gino Pernice (banker)], José Suárez (Cisco Delgado), Elisa Montés (Mulatta girl), Livio Lorenzon (Miguel), José Guardiola (McLeod), Antonella Murgia, Ivan Scratuglia (Dick), Silvana Bacci (saloon girl), Mario Novelli (bounty killer), Remo De Angelis
- Story: Franco Rossetti, Ferdinando Baldi
- Screenplay:: Ferdinando Baldi, Franco Rossetti
- Cinematographer:: Enzo Barboni
[Eastmancolor, Ultrascope]
- Music: Anton Garcia Abril
- Song: "Texas addio" sung by Don Powell
- Producer: Manolo Bolognini
Various info
In some countries, this great revenge story with Franco Nero is marketed as an official Django movie but it actually has nothing to do with Django.
Plot
Franco Nero is Burt Sullivan, a sheriff who doesn't take his job to seriously, because what he is really interested in is revenge, revenge for his fathers death years earlier. When the murderer's whearabouts become known to Sullivan he sets out with his brother to kill the low down snake. Cisco Delgado(Jose Saurez), the snake in question, is a land grabbing villian with a fetish for branding his adversaries with a hot iron. When Sullivan and his brother corner Delgado he reveals a shocking secret. Is blood thicker than water?--JONAH HEX 00:51, 3 November 2007 (CET)
Review
The Continental cast and scenes of intense violence may earmark Texas, Addio as a spaghetti Western, but the plot of this Italian/Spanish production unspools very much like its Hollywood counterpart. Django star Franco Nero's character provides the link; his two-fisted, taciturn Texas sheriff, Burt Sullivan, is cut from the same unwavering in-his-duty cloth as Gary Cooper's lawmen as he crosses the border to bring wealthy and sadistic Mexican crime boss Cisco Delgado (José Suárez) to justice for the murder of his father. Sullivan's body count may be staggeringly high by the film's fade-out, but his kills are strictly in defense of himself, his greenhorn brother, Jim (Cole Kitosch, aka Alberto Dell'Acqua or Robert Widmark), or later, a group of Mexican revolutionaries led by lawyer Luigi Pistilli that attempts to overthrow Delgado's corrupt regime. Director Ferdinando Baldi (whose Western curriculum vitae includes the more European-flavored Blindman [1971] and Get Mean [1975], with American ex-pat actor Tony Anthony) makes excellent use of the Almeira, Spain, locations (well photographed by future Trinity Is Still My Name director Enzo Barboni); and if his pacing is occasionally draggy, he more than makes up for it with a wealth of well-staged brawls and shoot-outs. His script (written with Django co-scribe Franco Rossetti) is lean and solid, with a hint of noir in its central dark secret regarding Delgado's relationship with Sullivan's family.
DVD
- US DVD (Blue Underground)(buy @ amazon.com)
- Once Upon a Time in Italy Box, US DVD (Anchor Bay) (buy @ amazon.com)
- UK DVD (Argent Films) Double Pack (buy @amazon.co.uk)
- German Kinowelt DVD box set
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