The long day of vengeance

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Movie
German title The long day of vengeance
Original title I lunghi giorni della vendetta
Country of production Italy , Spain , France
original language Italian
Publishing year 1966
length 123 (German v. 105) minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Florestano Vancini
script Fernando Di Leo
Augusto Caminito
production Luciano Ercoli
Alberto Pugliese
music Armando Trovaioli
camera Francisco Marín
cut Mario Morra
occupation

The long day of vengeance (original title: I lunghi giorni della vendetta ) is a spaghetti western by Florestano Vancini from 1966. The German premiere of the film was on July 21, 1967. It was also published in German-speaking countries under the title Angel Face - The long Revenge Day published.

action

An innocent intrigue by the corrupt Sheriff Douglas brings Ted Barnett behind bars. He is said to have murdered his father. After three years, Barnett is able to escape from a prison camp. Barnett begins a bloody campaign of revenge against all who were involved in the conspiracy against him. With the help of the quack Pajarito and his daughter, he arrives in the city, where he succeeds in coaxing a confession from the witness Gomez before killing him. His ex-lover Dolly married Sheriff Douglas and pretends to still love Ted; but her intention is his surrender, which is why she too must die.

Then Ted, who is now also subject to a bounty, takes on the gang of landowner Cobb, who works with Douglas. His attempt to do this with the help of the men around General Porfirio fails - they have economic interests in connecting with Cobb's people and beat him up. He is arrested again despite being found by Dulcie, Pajarito's daughter.

Meanwhile his innocence is certain; Judge Kincaid delivers the official letter preventing his last-minute execution. Cobb does not accept this and begins a firefight, at the end of which he is defeated in a duel with Ted. Dulcie will continue to take care of Ted.

Reviews

  • Cinema.de : Unconventionally staged highlight
  • Ulrich P. Bruckner notes (in “For a few more corpses”, Munich 2006) that the film is a western version of Der Graf von Monte Christo , whose male characters are “ quite original ” and praises the script as “ extremely effective ".
  • Christian Keßler sees him as one of the “most successful and respected examples of the politically motivated spaghetti western ”.
  • Georg Herzberg was less enthusiastic in Filmecho / Filmwoche 59–60, 1967: “ The bloody, the cruel, the" hard "in advertising jargon is taken as an end in itself and more important than the plot. (...) In the chaos of a street battle, the director and his editor lose the thread. You can no longer tell who is fighting on whose side; you shoot and die and shoot. "
  • On the other hand, film : “ Vancini throws himself noticeably liberated and enthusiastic about the" action ", the extravert of the Western, but does not go along with the clumsy hack-cut technique of his colleagues, but creates tension in long camera movements that are also very color-conscious. "
  • The verdict of the Protestant film observer is also largely positive : Hard Western [...], whose excellent directing and camera work deserves recognition. The motive of private vengeance mixed with self-defense, however, forces reservations.

background

The film was only shown in a version cut by almost 20 minutes in German cinemas. The full version of the film was released on DVD.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.cinema.de/kino/filmarchiv/film/der-lange-tag-der-rache,1327775,ApplicationMovie.html
  2. ↑ cit. after Joe Hembus : The Western Lexicon. Munich 1995.
  3. ↑ Evangelischer Presseverband München, Critique No. 313/1967