Mio nome è Shanghai Joe, Il

Il mio nome è Shangai Joe (Italy 1973 / Director: Mario Caiano)

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Runtime: 98 min
Release Date: 28.12.1973
Filming locations: Tabernas - Almeria, Rome ITALY

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Cast and crew

Cast: Chen Lee (Chin Hau/Shanghai Joe/Karate Jack), Klaus Kinski (Scalper Jack), Carla Romanelli (Cristina), Gordon Mitchell (Buryin' Sam), Katsutoshi Mikuriya (Mikuja, Fire Lotus Warrior), Claudio Undari [as Robert Hundar](Pedro 'the Cannibal'), Giacomo Rossi-Stuart (Tricky, gambler), Piero Lulli (Stanley Spencer), Umberto D'Orsi (poker player), Lorenzo Fineschi (ranch foreman), Federico Boido [as Rick Boyd](Tricky henchman), Dante Maggio (doctor), Carla Mancini (Conchita), Luigi Antonio Guerra (Spencer ally), Andrea Aureli (Sheriff Andy Corrotto), Enrico Marciani (Spencer ally), Giovanni Sabbatini (one-eyed old man), George Wang (Master Yang), Dante Cleri (Manuel Omero / Homer), Angelo Susani (stage driver)
Also with: Francisco Sanz (Old Mexican, Cristina's father), Alfonso de la Vega (Craig, slave smuggler), Tito Garcia (Jesus, slave trader), Osiride Pevarello ('False Teeth', Ferguson ranch hand), Sergio Testori (Ferguson ranch hand), Pietro Torrisi (Ferguson ranch hand), Franco Moruzzi (Ferguson ranch hand), Sergio Ukmar (Ferguson ranch hand), Veriano Genesi (blacksmith), Aldo Cecconi (waystation brawler), Lars Bloch (waystation brawler), Giuseppe Mattei (waystation troublemaker), Roberto Dell'Acqua (Smitty, ranch hand), Raniero Dorascenzi (ranch hand), Claudio Ruffini (Tricky henchman), Franco Ukmar (Tricky henchman), Juanito Santiago (kid giving directions), Luciano Casamonica (Conchita's brother), Angelo Casadei (stagecoach teller), Vincenzo De Palo (bank employee)

Story: Fabrizio Trifone Trecca (as T.F. Karter), Mario Caiano, Carlo Alberto Alfieri
Screenplay: Fabrizio Trifone Trecca (as T.F. Karter), Mario Caiano
Cinematography: Guglielmo Mancori (Technicolor - Techniscope 2,35:1)
Music: Bruno Nicolai
Producers: Renato Amgiolini, Roberto Bessi

Synopsis

Shanghai Joe is a Chinese immigrant, seeking a new, peaceful life in America. He lands in Texas, where he is not exactly welcomed with open arms, but finds employment as a cowboy, and soon finds it is not cattle the ranch inhabitants are moving, but Mexican slaves.

Comment

After a six year gap, Mario Caiano returns to the SW with this uneven west meets east variant. Chen Lee fights his way successfully through a west filled with racists while director Caiano unsuccessfully fights with his directorial talents against an episodical screenplay with too many shortcomings and stupidities in it. Often well directed with some hearty gore effects, some bizarre guest appearances and a beautiful Bruno Nicolai score (which was already used more strikingly in Have a Good Funeral, Sartana Will Pay), this one gives me the feeling of a superior Fidani trash movie.

by Stanton

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