Arizona Colt
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Arizona Colt |
| Original title | Arizona Colt |
| Country of production | Italy , France |
| original language | Italian |
| Publishing year | 1966 |
| length | 111 (licensed version 93) minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Michele Lupo |
| script |
Ernesto Gastaldi Luciano Martino |
| music | Francesco De Masi |
| camera | Guglielmo Mancori |
| cut | Antonietta Zita |
| occupation | |
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Arizona Colt is a spaghetti western by Michele Lupo from 1966. In Germany, the film was also released under the title Halleluja Companeros . It was first shown in local cinemas on February 24, 1967, shortened to 93 minutes.
action
Gordon Watch and his gang raid a prison on the Mexican border to recruit new people. Outlaw Arizona Colt is among the liberated, but Gordon refuses to follow him. Watch plans to raid a bank in a nearby small town and sends his gang member Clay, who was previously humiliated by Arizona Colt, as a scout. Arizona Colt, who initially does not reveal Clay, also travels to town by stagecoach. When Clay kills Dolores, the saloon owner's daughter, Arizona Colt is hired to avenge her. Arizona wages not only $ 500, but also a night with Jane, the second daughter.
Arizona finds Clay at Gordon Watch and can defeat him in a duel. However, Watch shoots Arizona's hands and knees. Seriously wounded, the latter returns to the village with the help of whiskey, which has taken the gang's booty. Villagers there prevent him from receiving his negotiated wages. Meanwhile, Gordon's gang is looking for whiskey. Arizona and whiskey are hiding in a church outside of town. The city is besieged by Gordon's gang and the residents are asked to deliver Arizona and whiskey. They find out about it through Jane. When Whiskey Arizona offers some of its booty, Arizona is ready to intervene; he challenges Gordon Watch to a duel with his hands bandaged and can defeat the bandit chief in a coffin store; With his hands and legs shot, he delivers Watch to the villagers. Arizona is now getting everything it was promised.
Reviews
“In this, his only tough spaghetti western in the heyday of the genre, he (cf. Michele Lupo) succeeds in telling an exciting story in which there is very little room for comic interludes. [...] Cinematographer Guglielmo Mancori has also reached the peak of his skills and perfectly stages the beautiful Spanish landscapes. "
“All of this has nothing to do with adventure romance, wild west idyll or Karl May color. [...] This is the harshest and cruelest Western [...] of a gradually annoying wave of rude products because it makes the wildness of human emotions the idol of its antiheroes. "
“In short, the Arizona Colt is a huge hit. Master Gemma shines once more as a laconic gunslinger, while Fernando Sancho is as usual as an evil gang boss. "
"Spaghetti Westerns of an extraordinarily brutal shape."
"Not to be recommended because of the accumulation of brutality and sadism that is typical for this branch of the European western."
synchronization
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Arizona Colt | Giuliano Gemma | Michael Cramer |
| Gordon Watch | Fernando Sancho | Klaus W. Krause |
background
In 1970 Sergio Martino shot a sequel with Death says Amen ( Arizona si scateno… e li fece fuori tutti! ). The role of the Arizona Colt is played by Anthony Steffen .
Raoul interprets the title song ; other film songs are "From the West" and "Broken Heart Ranch" sung by I Cantori Moderni .
Web links
- Arizona Colt in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Comparison of the cut versions US-DVD (Wild East) - German DVD (Movie Power) by Arizona Colt at Schnittberichte.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Arizona Colt. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Evangelischer Presseverband Munich, Review No. 87/1967.