Pistola per cento bare, Una

Una pistola per cento bare (Italy, Spain 1968 / Director: Umberto Lenzi)

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• Runtime: 87 min
• Release date: 24.8.68

Also known as

A Gun for One Hundred Graves | Pistol for a Hundred Coffins (U.S.A.) | El Sabor del odio (Spain) | Una pistola para cien tumbas (Spain) | Ein Colt für 100 Särge (Germany) | Le malle de San Antonio (France) | Pistolets pour un massacre (France) | Uma Pistola Para Cem Caixões (Brazil) | Hämnaren från Tucson (Sweden)

Cast and crew

• Cast: Peter Lee Lawrence (Jim 'The Kid' Slade), John Ireland (Douglas), Gloria Osuna (Marjorie), Eduardo Fajardo (Chavel), Piero Lulli (J. 'Texas' Corbett), Raf Baldassarre (Verdugo), Frank Braña (Joe), Calisto Calisti (Cassidy), Ví­ctor Israel (Barrett), Andrea Scotti (mayor), Franco Pesce (Ben), Paolo Natale (Elizabeth), Miguel del Castillo (Glaerstone banker), Herman Reynoso (Tony Butcher), Gino Turini (Freddy Butcher), Julio Pena (Dodge City banker), Victor Israel (Barrett), Jose Jaspe (David), Alfonso Rojas (Percy), Miguel Guzman, Franco Narducci (bartender), Giovanni Petrucci (as Giovanni Petti)(Jeff Mortimer Logan), Giovanni Ivan Scratuglia, Luis de Tejada, Leonidas Guerra, Armando Calvo, Joaquín Parra

• Story: Eduardo Manzanos
• Screenplay: Umberto Lenzi, Marco Leto
• Cinematography: Alejandro Ulloa [Technicolor, Techniscope 2,35:1]
• Music: Angelo Francesco Lavagnino
• Producer: Ennio Girolami

Synopsis

At the end of the Civil War, Jim Slade, a young confederate soldier and conscientious objector, returns to his ranch to find his parents murdered and the ranch practically destroyed. He finds and kills three of the murderers and learns the name of the fourth, a certain Corbett. Finally he discovers Corbett as the leader of a gang that has plans to rob a local bank and is invited to help defend the town from the bandits. Teaming with a preacher, who has an agenda of his own, the two take a stand against Corbett.

Comment

Cult filmmaker Umberto Lenzi directed this peculiar, horror-tinged spaghetti western starring Peter Lee Lawrence as The Kid, who is imprisoned for a crime he did not commit. Upon his release, The Kid must attempt to clear his name but is betrayed at every turn by Garff (John Ireland), his former partner. Most of the film, however, deals with a prison escape by a group of raving lunatics -- led by genre veteran Eduardo Fajardo -- who charge into town swinging axes and gorily murdering many of the residents. Lenzi's film is wildly uneven in tone, coming across as a hybrid of the western genre and his own blood-drenched horror films of the 1980s. Raf Baldassarre, Piero Lulli, and Andrea Scotti co-star in this Italian-Spanish co-production photographed by Alejandro Ulloa.

External Links

• Internet Movie Database
• Review by 800 SW (Spain)
• German Review @ Film Maniax
• DVD Review @ Mondo Esoterica