È tornato Sabata... hai chiuso un'altra volta

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È tornato Sabata... hai chiuso un'altra volta (Italy, France, Germany 1971, Director: Gianfranco Parolini)

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Contents:
  • Runtime: 105 min
  • Release Date: 3.9.1971

Also known as

The Return of Sabata (U.S.A.) | Sabata kehrt zurück (German) | O Regresso de Sabata (Portugal) | Il ritorno di Sabata (Italy) | Le retour de Sabata (France) | Sabatas Aterkomst (Sweden) | Texas 1870 (Spain) | Powrót Sabaty (Poland) | El regreso de Sabata (Mexico)

Cast and crew

  • Cast: Lee Van Cleef (Sabata), Reiner Schöne (Clyde), Giampiero Albertini (Joe McIntock), Ignazio Spalla (as Pedro Sanchez)(Bronco), Annabella Incontrera (Maggie), Jacqueline Alexandre (Jackie McIntock), Luciano Rossi (circus gunfighter), Aldo Canti (as Nick Jordan)(Angel), Vassili Karis (as Karis Vassili)(Bionda), Steffen Zacharias (Donovan), Pia Giancaro (as Maria Pia Giancaro), John Bartha (as Janos Bartha)(sheriff), Günther Stoll (as Gunther Stoll)(circus showman), Carmelo Reale, Franco Fantasia (circus gunfighter), Ileana Rigano (as Ilenna Rigano), Dante Cona, Gérard Boucaron (as Bucaron Gerard)(Higgins), Vittorio Fanfoni (blonde Irishman), Gianni Rizzo (Jeremy Sweeney), Stefano Amato (boy), Fortunato Arena (saloon owner), Bruno Arié (McIntock henchman), Giulio Baraghini (uncredited), Salvatore Billa (townsman), Federico Boido (McIntock henchman), Giuseppe Castellano (priest), Giovanni Cianfriglia (McIntock henchman), Alberto Dell'Acqua (townsman), Attilio Dottesio (organist), John P. Dulaney (duelling judge), Augusto Funari (McIntock henchman), Gilberto Galimberti (circus gunfighter), Jean Louis (townsman), Mimmo Maggio (circus gunfighter), Roberto Messina (townsman), Franco Pasquetto (townsman), Claudio Ruffini (McIntock henchman), Attilio Severini (McIntock henchman), Pietro Torrisi (McIntock henchman), Bruno Ukmar (McIntock henchman), Franco Ukmar (McIntock henchman), Sylvia Alba (saloon girl)
  • Screenplay: Renato Izzo, Gianfranco Parolini
  • Music: Marcello Giombini
  • Cinematography: Sandro Mancori [Technicolor, Techniscope 2,35:1]
  • Producer: Alberto Grimaldi

About

In this spaghetti western, a quick-drawing, hard-riding granite faced, steel-eyed ex-Confederate soldier (Lee Van Cleef) rides into a Texas town with the small travelling circus he works for as a stunt rider and bumps into a man who owes him $5,000. Wanting the money back, the vet decides to stay in town and it isn't long before he ends up embroiled in corruption and double-crosses as he fights to simultaneously save the townsfolk from the greedy, corrupt politician who runs the town and forces the residents to pay cripplingly high taxes and steal the crook's fortune. This is the third Sabata film and the second time Van Cleef essayed the character. In the second film Adios Sabata, the title character was played by Yul Brynner (but only outside of Italy, where the character was originally called Indio Black).

Comment

In this cheerful sequel Sabata has again to keep the overview in a town full of swindlers, cheaters and crooks (and of course a few acrobats). Parolini directs elegantly in his own excessive and ornamental tongue-in-cheek style. If anything the film proves that also a SW which was shot solely in Italy could have a lavish look. While most people seem to think about Return of Sabata as an inferior successor, it's still impossible for me to see any difference to Parolini's other Sabata/Sartana style films.

by Stanton

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