The last rifle

Movie
German title	The last rifle
Original title	Jim il primo
Country of production	Italy
original language	Italian
Publishing year	1964
length	100 (German v. 93) minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Sergio Bergonzelli (as Serge Bergon )
script	Dick Fulner Ambrogio Molteni James Wilde junior
production	Luigi Gianni Elio Sorrentino
music	Romolo Garrone Amerigo Gengarelli
camera	Carlo Carlini
cut	Dolores Tamburini
occupation
Cameron Mitchell : Jim Hart Carl Möhner : Guitar Ketty Carver : Janet Mary Gordon : Dolores' mother Dony Baster : Tommy (as Dony Batster ) Attilio Severini : Peronez Luigi Batzella : Morgan (as Paolo Solvay ) Fanny Clair : Millie Giuseppe Mattei (as John Mathius ) Lina Alberti : Rosario, the saloon lady Celina Cely : Dolores Livio Lorenzon : Jess Lindahl Ugo Fangareggi : Bow Tie Giulio Maculani : Sheriff (as Vic Nojaski )

The last rifle (original title: Jim il primo ) is a 1964 spaghetti western with Cameron Mitchell in the lead role and directed by Sergio Bergonzelli . The German-language premiere was on March 9, 1965.

action

Jim is the best shot in the west. On the dead body of his last victim, he swears not to touch a weapon in the future and to lead a peaceful life. However, when a group of bandits enter Sanderson, keeping the city in suspense and terrorizing peaceful citizens, he has to break his oath. While no one else dares to resist, a masked man keeps appearing who makes life difficult for the outlaws. The masked man intervenes again during an attack on a gold transport and a fight with the sheriff who is guarding it. Jim hides behind him, who can put an end to the bandits' reign of terror.

criticism

"Mediocre spaghetti westerns with some exaggerated severity," said the lexicon of international films . Christian Keßler stated: “Bergonzelli sticks completely to the traces of the American Western. (...) The actors actually seem unusual in their roles, like in a badly fitting costume. ”The opinion of the Protestant film observer is completely contrary to this :“ The good, exciting and skilful Western, which impresses with its dense atmosphere, shows Approaches to more deeply illuminating the problems of killing without sliding into kitsch. "

Remarks

It is the first purely Italian-made western based on the new model; were made before For a Fistful of Dollars and The Last Two from Rio Bravo . Songs to be heard in the film are “Young Jim Hart” sung by Peter Tevis and “Amor Mexicano” as interpreted by Rena Filippini .

Web links

• The last gun in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Film at comingsoon

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The last rifle. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .  
2. ↑ Keßler: Welcome to Hell. 2002, p. 122
3. ↑ Evangelical Press Association, Munich, Review No. 118/1965
4. ^ R. Poppi, M. Pecorari: Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film Vol. 3. Gremese, 1992, p. 280