El Rocho - the killer

Movie
German title	El Rocho - the killer
Original title	El rojo
Country of production	Italy , Spain
original language	Italian
Publishing year	1966
length	85 minutes
Age rating	FSK 18
Rod
Director	Leopoldo Savona; (as Leo Coleman )
script	Roberto Amoroso; (as Robert Lover ) ; Leopoldo Savona ; (as Bill Coleman ) ; Mario Casacci; (as Mike Mitchell ) ; Rate Furlan ; Antonio Giambriccio ; Roberto Gianviti ; José Maria Seone
production	Roberto Amoroso ; Luis Merino
music	Benedetto Ghiglia
camera	Aldo Giordano
cut	Tatiana Casini Morigi
occupation
	Richard Harrison : Donald "El Rojo" Sorensen; Nieves Navarro : Consuelo; Piero Lulli : Lasky ; (as Peter Carter ); Mirko Ellis : Navarro; José Jaspe : Hank; Andrea Aureli : Ortega ; (as Andrew Ray ); Franco Ressel : Wallace ; (as Frank Ressel ); Annie Gorassini : Flo; Rita Klein : Pamela; John Bartha : Judge; Raf Baldassarre : Ramon ; (as Ralph Baldwyn ); Tom Felleghy : Sheriff ; (as Tom Felleghi ); Furio Pellerani; (as Franco Pellerani ); Giovanni Ivan Scratuglia : one of Lasky's people; Pietro Tordi : Saloon guest; Gaetano Scala : Coshise; Angelo Boscariol : Nero Burt (German Black Burt);

El Rocho - der Töter (original title: El rojo , Spanish "The Red") is a spaghetti western from 1966 by Leopoldo Savona , who staged under a pseudonym . The film, rated as average, premiered on March 15, 1968 in Germany.

action

A few years after the massacre of the pioneering Sorensen family, who owned a gold mine in New Mexico , a guy named El Rojo comes to the town of Golden Hill, which has now been built on the former property of the settler family. Four apparently honorable citizens of the city - Navarro, Wallace, Ortega and Lasky - are given an arrow to announce their deaths. The sender of the arrows is the stranger, Donald, a son of the murdered settlers who was unable to come to the aid of his family because of his participation in the civil war. An old Indian who witnessed the murders has revealed to him that the family was not murdered by the Indians, as is generally assumed, but that the four men are to be blamed for the massacre.

Despite hastily taken countermeasures, three of the accused are killed. The last one, Lasky, is forced to admit guilt by El Rojo and is brought to justice. El Rojo triumphs in the proceedings, but before their death the four hired the gun hero Black Burt, whom he now has to deal with. The hit man, wearing a bizarre iron mask, turns out to be a sham opponent because he has secretly identified himself with the just cause of Donald Sorensen and has secretly supported his campaign of revenge.

criticism

The lexicon of international films considers El rojo to be a “brutal dozen film of European western production” , Segnalazione cinematografiche, on the other hand, remarked “despite the predictability of the characters, the episodic script and the manageable locations, some interesting and effectively designed processes”, and Ulrich P Bruckner put it neutrally: “An entertaining little western without ambitions” .

Remarks

The song "To the West" sung in the film was performed by actress Nieves Navarro .
Almost all credits have English pseudonyms.

Web links

El Rocho - The killer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
The film at comingsoon
Rojo, El in the Spaghetti Western Database

Individual evidence

↑ El Rocho - the slayer. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed February 2, 2019 .
↑ in: For a few more corpses, Munich 2006, p. 590

[1] El Rocho - the slayer. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed February 2, 2019 .

[2] : For a few more corpses, Munich 2006, p. 590