Quei disperati che puzzano di sudore e di morte

Quei disperati che puzzano di sudore e di morte (Italy, Spain 1969 / Director: Julio Buchs)

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• Runtime: 102 min
• Release Date: 26.11.1969

Also known as

A Bullet for Sandoval (U.S.A.)| Quei disperati che puzzano di sudore e di morte (Italy)| Vengeance Is Mine (U.K.) | Um sie war der Hauch des Todes (Germany) | Homens em fúria (Portugal) | Los Desesperados (Spain) | Les quatre deperdados (France) | Desperado il man omatuntoa (Finland) | Kosto veressä (Finland) | Oi desperados (Greece) | Oi Ektelestai tis Avgis (Greece) | Revansch (Sweden) | 6 desperados (Sweden) | Those Desperate Men Who Smell of Dirt and Death | Blood for Blood | A Bloody Job | Desperate Men

Cast and crew

• Cast: George Hilton (Corporal John Warner), Ernest Borgnine (Don Pedro Sandoval), Alberto de Mendoza (Lucky Boy), Leo Anchóriz (Friar/Father Converso), Annabella Incontrera (Carol Day), Gustavo Rojo (Guadalupano), Manuel de Blas (Jose Gonzales Sandoval), Manuel Miranda (Francisco Gonzales Sandoval), José Manuel Martín (Guerico/'The Only One Eye'), Antonio Pica (Sam Paul), Andrea Aureli (Morton), Luis Barboo (Mexican foreman), Andrés Mejuto (Confederate general), Antonio Molino Rojo (Captain Parker), Mary Paz Pondal (Texibal), George Rigaud (General Jackson), Alfonso Rojas (rancher), Dan van Husen (Mestizo), Lorenzo Robledo (Confederate corporal), Alfonso de la Vega (Sandoval's man), Jesus Aristo (Pablo), Jose Guardiola (Mexcian Governor), Alfredo San Tacruz (senator), Claudio Trionfi (1st soldier), Adalberto Rossetti (2nd soldier), Fernando Sanchez Polack (Mexican Governor), Tota Alba, Jose Riesgo, Rafael Hernandez, Charly Bravo

• Story and Screenplay: Julio Buchs, Federico De Urrutia, Ugo Guerra, Jose Luis Martinez Molla

• Cinematography: Francisco Sempere [Eastmancolor, Cromoscope 2,35:1]

• Music: Gianni Ferrio

• Producers: Elio Scardamaglia, Ugo Guerra

Synopsis

During the Civil War a Confederate soldier (Hilton) becomes a deserter when he wants to be with his fiancée, who’s about to have their baby. When he arrives at her parental home the girl has died and he is told to leave the premises by her Mexican father Don Pedro Sandoval(Borgnine). A cholera epidemic has broken out and when farmers refuse to give milk to the baby, Hilton loses his child as well. Outraged, he assembles a marauding mob and starts terrorizing the surroundings in his thirst for revenge on Sandoval.

Comments

With a Spanish director and a predominantly Spanish and Latin American cast, the film is often closer to a classic Spanish drama about redemption than a spaghetti western about revenge. Rather episodic and sometimes confusing, it still is an interesting film, with a powerful opening and a bizarre conclusion, set in and around a bullring. Casting for this production was a bit odd; Borgnine, virtually the only American in the cast, plays a Mexican, while most American characters are played by Spanish and Latin American actors. – Scherpschutter

(A Bullet for Sandoval) is a film with a genuinely dramatic narrative which, in a genre often dominated by action for action's sake, is refreshing and worthy of support. – Phil H

Trivia

The circuitous Italian title Quei disperati che puzzano di sudore e di morte translates to Those Desperate Men Who Smell of Dirt and Death or Those Desperate Men Who Stank of Sweat and Death.

Most people have only seen a cut 90 min version of this film, but there is at least one 102 min version (which is most probably uncut) with a complete English audio available. The cut scenes are discussed here

External Links

• Internet Movie Database
• DVD Details @ A Fistful of DVDs
• DVD Review @ Cultfilms en Kutfilms (Dutch)
• Review by Shobary
• Review by Son of Django
• Review at Fistful of Pasta
• Review by 800 SW (Spain)