A Talent for Loving

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A Talent for Loving (USA · UK 1968 / Director: Richard Quine)

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Also known as

Gun Crazy (USA, re-release title) | Talento por amor (Brazil) | Az azték pap átka (Hungary) | La strana maledizione di Montezuma (Italy), 西部野郎奮戦記 (Japan) | Talento por amor (Spain) | Talento para amar (Spain, television title) | A Talent for Loving (Great Britain) | Crazy Gun (USA, video title)
A Talent for Loving movie poster

Synopsis

Major Patten wins the hand of the beautiful daughter of Don Pedro and all the lands she inherits. Unfortunately, she suffers from a family curse which makes her amorously insatiable. A curse she passes on to their equally beautiful daughter. Meanwhile, the large stash of guns which Patten also inherits makes him the target of covetous Indians and the local bandit chief.

Credits

  • Cast: Richard Widmark (Major William Patten), Topol (General Enrique Molina), Geneviève Page (Delphine de George), Cesar Romero (Don José), Fran Jeffries (Maria), Derek Nimmo (John Moodie), Mircha Carven (Benito Patricio), Judd Hamilton (Jim Street), Caroline Munro (Evalina Patten), Marie Rogers (Marylyn Ridgeway), Janet Sorti (Florita Molina), Max Showalter (Franklin, bartender), Joe Melia (Tortillaw), John Bluthal (Martinelli, Molina aide), Libby Morris (Jacaranda), Milo Quesada (Don Patricio)
  • Also with: Ralph Brown (registry officer), Vicente Roca (Father Oliver), Stephanie Haynes (young Evalina), Juan Antonio Elices (Molina villager), Ricardo Montez (Bandit), Xan das Bolas (Molina soldier), Jack Brami (Mexican Bandit)
  • Original Novel Richard Condon
  • Screenplay: Jack Rose
  • Cinematography: Clifford Stine
  • Music: Ken Thorne
  • Conductor: Ken Thorne
  • Whistler: Curro Savoy
  • Editor: Eric Boyd-Perkins
  • Art decorator: Ramiro Gómez, Rafael Salazar
  • Set decorator: Emilio Ardura, Rafael Salazar
  • Costume designer: Yvonne Blake
  • Make-up artists: Carmen Martín, Carmen Sanchez
  • Producers: Walter Shenson, Leon Becker

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Trivia

This is a comedy western shot in Spain and produced by the same company who made both films featuring The Beatles. Amazingly, it was originally conceived as the next vehicle for the Fab Four but was eventually rejected.

Versions and runtimes

110min, 95min (home video version)

Release Dates

December 1973

Filming locations

Spain

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