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Texas, Addio (Italy, Spain 1966 / Director: Ferdinando Baldi)
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- Runtime: 92 min
- Release Date: 28.8.1966
Also known as
Texas, Adios (USA) | The Avenger (U.S.A.) | Django 2 (Germany) | Django - Der Rächer (Germany) | Adiós, Texas (Spain) | Texas, Adiós (Latin America) | Texas Adios (Finland/Sweden) | Texas, addio (France) | Adeus Texas (Portugal) | A Fistful of Bullets, Texas Goodbye | Wanted Dead or Alive
Cast and Crew
- Cast: Franco Nero (Burt Sullivan/Django), Luigi Pistilli (lawyer), Alberto dell'Acqua (Jim Sullivan), Hugo Blanco (Pedro), Gino Pernice (banker)], José Suárez (Cisco Delgado), Elisa Montés (Mulatta girl), Livio Lorenzon (Miguel), José Guardiola (McLeod), Antonella Murgia, Ivan Scratuglia (Dick), Silvana Bacci (saloon girl), Mario Novelli (bounty killer), Remo De Angelis
- Story and Screenplay: Ferdinando Baldi, Franco Rossetti
- Cinematography: Enzo Barboni [Eastmancolor, Ultrascope 2,35:1]
- Music: Anton Garcia Abril
- Song: "Texas addio" sung by Don Powell
- Producer: Manolo Bolognini
The Film
Nero, the sheriff of a border town, heads for Mexico to settle an old score: as a boy he has witnessed how his father was killed by a Mexican. In his quest for revenge, he is accompanied by his younger brother. The man they’re looking for has become a local tyrant, but the plot thickens when he turns out to be the younger brother’s father as well . While the younger brother is locked up by his father, Nero is escorted back to where he came from, but at the border his escort is attacked by a lawyer-turned-revolutionary and his men, who are about to march against the oppressor ...
Comment
This is a very entertaining spaghetti western, although it suffers a little from a series of unexpected shifts in tone. It starts as a straightforward revenge movie, takes a melodramatic turn halfway, and almost ends like a Zapata western. Some people involved in the production (Barboni, Rosetti and Bolognini) had previously been involved in Corbucci’s Django, and the film was called Django 2 in some countries, even though Neo’s character is called Burt Sullivan. It is often described as a more Hollywood orientated spaghetti, but borrows only little from the more traditional US westerns. Apart from the soppy theme song and a few sentimental scenes, it unmistakably bears the spaghetti trademark: it is sadistically violent and characterized by many of the mannerisms the Italian western is identified with. - Scherpschutter