Escondido (film)

Movie
German title	Escondido
Original title	El Desperado
Country of production	Italy
original language	Italian
Publishing year	1967
length	103 minutes
Age rating	FSK 18
Rod
Director	Franco Rossetti
script	Ugo Guerra Franco Rossetti Vincenzo Cerami
production	Ugo Guerra Franco Rossetti for Daiano Film , Leone Film
music	Gianni Ferrio
camera	Angelo Filippini
cut	Antonietta Zita
occupation
Andrea Giordana : Steve / El Dorado (as Chip Corman ) Rosemarie Dexter : Katie Franco Giornelli : Asher Dana Ghia : Lucy Aldo Berti : Gionatà Giovanni Petrucci : Rico Pino Polidori Andrea Scotti : Togo Dino Strano : Jim John Bartha : Wallace Antonio Cantafora : Bill Flannigan Giuseppe Castellano : One-armed soldier Piero Lulli : Sam Flannigan

Escondido (original title: El Desperado ) is a spaghetti western from 1967, directed by Franco Rossetti . The film, also listed as Die im Staub , came to German cinemas on January 23, 1969.

action

Steve, who is called El Desperado, escapes the rope after being charged with horse theft only with the unexpected assistance of a friend and meets a fatally wounded Southern soldier named Bill, who asks him to go to Escondido to see his father Sam to clear him off Buy a ranch to convince. Steve looks for the blind Sam and pretends to be Bill in Bill's uniform.

Almost at the same time as Steve, a group of outlaws, including the girl Lucy, arrives in Escondido to intercept wages. Lucy knows Steve from before and thus reveals his masquerade. At their recommendation, he appears to join the gang, but after successfully taking over the gold, flees with the loot. However, the bandits catch him again and torture him. The blind Sam, who still takes him for Bill and wants to hurry to his aid, is cruelly killed by the bandits. By a ruse Lucy survives, who sets about eliminating the rogue crooks one after the other. He finally gives the stolen money to Katie so that she can buy the ranch that was meant for Sam.

criticism

"Monotonous spaghetti westerns, particularly brutal" is the verdict of the lexicon of international films , while Ulrich P. Bruckner considers the film to be "relatively well done" . The Protestant film observer also judges rather negatively : “Inconsistently staged western drama of Italian origin, which contains incredibly wild and brutal action scenes between calm passages. Not to be recommended to anyone. "

The Italian critics saw a film that "focuses solely on the obsessive use of force without rhythm and beat and in monotonous repetition of the most boring, overused clichés of the Spaghetti Westerns" .

Remarks

The theme song The Desperado is interpreted by John Balfour .

A DVD edition was entitled Django - Die die im Schlamm .

Web links

• Escondido in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• The film at comingsoon.it

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Escondido. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed June 25, 2017 .  
2. ↑ For a few more corpses, Munich 2006, p. 590
3. ↑ Evangelical Press Association, Munich, Review No. 250/1969
4. ↑ Segnalazioni Cinematografiche, Vol. 63, 1968