Notte dei serpenti, La
From The Spaghetti Western Database
La notte dei serpenti (Italy 1969 / Director: Giulio Petroni)
- Runtime: 106 min
- Release Date: 23.12.1969
- Filming Locations: Tabernas - Almeria
Also known as
Gringo uccidi (Italy) | Gringo uccidi e'... la notte dei serpenti (Italy) | Un tueur nomme Luke (France) | La noche de los serpientes (Spain) | Nest of Vipers (U.S.A.) | Ringo Kill - Night of Vipers (South Africa) | I polis tis orgis (Greece) | Nest of Vipers - Ringo Kill | Night of the Serpent | E Chamavam Gringo Para Matar (Brazil) | ガラガラ蛇の夜 Garagarahebi no yoru DVD title (Japan)
Cast and crew
- Cast: Luke Askew (Luke), Luigi Pistilli (Lieutenant 'The Snake' Hernandez), Magda Konopka (Maria), Guglielmo Spoletini [as William Bogart] (Antonio Pancaldo), Luciano Casamonica (Manuel), Franco Balducci (Luciano), Giancarlo Badessi (Ignacio), Monica Miguel (Ignacio's wife), Franco Valobra (Jesus Maria, sacristan), Benito Stefanelli (Pancho), Liliana Pavlovic (Luke's blonde wife in flashback), Bruno Boschetti (Hernandez soldier), Paola Natale, Clara Colosimo (Mercedes, Luciano's wife), Chelo Alonso (Dolores)
- Also with: Alfonso Giganti (bartender, flashback), Domenico Cianfriglia (soldier), Giovanni Ukmar (soldier), Antonio Danesi (soldier), Marcello Meconizzi (prison guard)
- Story: Enzo Gicca Palli [as Enzo Gicca]
- Screenplay: Fulvia Gicca, Enzo Gicca Palli, Giulio Petroni
- Cinematography: Mario Vulpiani, Silvio Fraschetti [Technicolor, Techniscope 2,35:1]
- Music: Riz Ortolani
- Producers: Gianni Minervini, Franco Clementi
Synopsis
Hernandez, commander of the garrison in a small village, joins a group of townsmen with the intention of robbing orphan Manuel of his inheritance. Luke, suffering from a traumatic past and now an alcoholic, is chosen by revolutionary Pancho to be the pawn of the conspirators.
