Five bloody ropes

Movie
German title	Five bloody ropes
Original title	Joko, invoca Dio… e muori
Country of production	Italy , Germany
original language	Italian
Publishing year	1968
length	98 minutes
Age rating	FSK 18
Rod
Director	Antonio Margheriti; (as Anthony M. Dawson )
script	Renato Savino; Antonio Margheriti
production	Alfredo Leone
music	Carlo Savina
camera	Riccardo Pallottini
cut	Otello Colangeli; (as Angel Coly )
occupation
	Richard Harrison : Joe 'Rocco' Barrett; Claudio Camaso : 'Professor' Mendoza; Werner Pochath : Kid ; (as Werner Pochat ); Paolo Gozlino : Agent McTiger ; (as Paul Lino ); Lucio De Santis : Laredo ; (as Louis Santis ); Mariangela Giordano : Rosita, Mendoza's girlfriend ; (as Marian Dana ); Goffredo Unger : Yuma ; (as Fredi Unger ); Špela Rozin : Jane ; (as Sheyla Rosin ); Aldo De Carellis : Ed Molhaar ; (as Albert Carl ); Giovanni Ivan Scratuglia : Manolo ; (as Ivan G. Scott ); Luciano Bonanni : Sam, Landlord ; (as Larry Bona ); Lucio Zarini; (as Louis Zarin ); Alberto Dell'Acqua : Richie Barrett ; (as Albert Nova ); Luciano Pigozzi : Domingo ; (as Alan Collins );

Five bloody ropes (Original title: Joko, Invoca dio ... e muori ) is a spaghetti western in German co-production, Antonio Margheriti staged under his Stammpseudonym. The German-language premiere was on October 30, 1970.

action

Joko / Rocco, Mendoza, Richie and Domingo attack a couple of bandits who have stolen a truckload of gold. But Domingo is a traitor, and Mendoza disappears into the corridors of an underground mine when he is supposed to cover the retreat of the other two. Richie escapes with the gold, but is caught by five bandits. His silence about the planned meeting point with Rocco costs him his life: He is torn apart by their horses. Rocco then sets out to avenge the death of his friend and can first kill four of them, on whose corpses he throws a bloody piece of rope. The last of them reveals to Rocco that the fifth man he is looking for is none other than Mendoza, who is actually the leader and who planned the attack from the beginning. Rocco looks for Mendoza in his cave system and can finally confront him and shoot him in a duel. Pinkerton agent Lester takes the gold.

criticism

The critics emphasized the radicalism of the story, sometimes clearly negative (“Italo-Western with cheap revenge story, endless shootings and sadistic torture scenes.”), Sometimes more mildly: “Christian commandments of charity are brutally disregarded, and forgiveness is also a word that does not exist in the vocabulary of the Indian. […] ”writes Christian Keßler , who emphasizes the horror of the last quarter of an hour and the villain of the story:“ Like a deranged creepy spirit from a nightmare of Charles Dickens (Claudio Camaso) wanders around and is dressed in white. ”The Italian critics of the Segnalazioni Cinematografichi were also disappointed; they saw a “modest Western that follows overused and conventional narrative patterns.” The Evangelical Film Observer remarks succinctly that the film is an “indisputable rubbish product” that is sharply rejected.

Remarks

You can hear the song Vengeance , which Don Powell sings. 5 pieces of the soundtrack were released on LP (CAM 10.018).

Web links

Five bloody else in the Internet Movie Database (English)
The film at comingsoon.it

Individual evidence

↑ Five bloody ropes. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
↑ Kessler. Welcome to hell. 2002, pp. 125/126
↑ Vol. LXIV, 1968
↑ Evangelical Press Association, Munich, Review No. 484/1970
^ Roberto Poppi, Mario Pecorari: Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film Vol. 3, dal 1960 al 1969. Gremese, Rome, 1992, pp. 281/282

[1] Five bloody ropes. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .

[2] Kessler. Welcome to hell. 2002, pp. 125/126

[3] Vol. LXIV, 1968

[4] Evangelical Press Association, Munich, Review No. 484/1970

[5] Roberto Poppi, Mario Pecorari: Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film Vol. 3, dal 1960 al 1969. Gremese, Rome, 1992, pp. 281/282