For a handful of lead

Movie
German title	For a handful of lead
Original title	Uccidi o muori
Country of production	Italy
original language	Italian
Publishing year	1966
length	93 minutes
Age rating	FSK 18
Rod
Director	Tanio Boccia; (as Amerigo Anton )
script	Mario Amendola
production	Luigi Rovere
music	Carlo Rustichelli
camera	Aldo Giordani
cut	Cleofe Conversi
occupation
	Rodd Dana : Johnny Ringo ; (as Robert Mark ); Elina De Witt : Lisa Drummond; Fabrizio Moroni : Spot Griffith; Andrea Bosic : Sheriff; Alberto Farnese : Chester Griffith ; (as Albert Farley ); Furio Meniconi : Jonathan Griffith ; (as Men Fury ); Beniamino Maggio : James Perrak ; (as Benjamin May ); Tony Rogers : Steve Drummond; Mary Land : Grandmother Drummond; Gordon Mitchell : Baltimore Joe;

For a handful of lead (original title: uccidi muori o ) is a Italowestern , the Tanio bowls 1966 staged. The film, which was also shown under the title Only one came through , was shown in cinemas in German-speaking countries from March 10, 1967.

action

In a small town in the American West, a deep rift divides the Griffith family, which has its cause in old Jonathan and his quarrel with the Drummond family. The sniper reaches Ringo, who is looking for revenge and pretends to be a violin player. Nobody recognizes him, but he has to fight off the attack by Spot Griffith, whom he kills. He goes to the Drumont ranch, where only the pretty Lisa lives with her grandmother and her cousin Steve. Ringo learns from her what misdeeds the Griffith family has accumulated.

Meanwhile, Jonathan Griffith hires the gun hero Baltimore Joe to avenge his son. The attack fails. The plan to force Lisa to marry her eldest son Chester, who also seriously injured Ringo in a battle, works better. Ringo is nursed back to health by old Petrack and can then take action against the Griffiths with the help of the town sheriff. He interrupts the wedding ceremony and can kill all Griffiths and their helpers.

criticism

L'Avvenire d'Italia judged that "the themes and motifs already seen in countless other westerns made this work by Amerigo Anton (di Tanio Boccia) boring and useless". The lexicon of international films said it was a "cruel European western that disguises the desire to kill with the appearance of legitimacy." The Evangelical Film Observer comes to a similar assessment : ".. . is an Italian color widescreen western with the usual characteristics: hard, brutal, sadistic and with a dazzling legal point of view. Superfluous."

Remarks

A Japanese single was released with the score. Enzo Cifiello interprets the song “I must go” .

Web links

For a handful of lead in the Internet Movie Database (English)
The film at comingsoon

Individual evidence

^ L'Avvenire d'Italia , June 1967
↑ For a handful of lead. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
↑ Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 201/1967
↑ Seven Seas GW 167/168
^ Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film vol. 3 dal 1960 ak 1969. Gremese 1992, p. 569

[1] L'Avvenire d'Italia , June 1967

[2] For a handful of lead. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .

[3] Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 201/1967

[4] Seven Seas GW 167/168

[5] Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film vol. 3 dal 1960 ak 1969. Gremese 1992, p. 569