Go to hell, you scoundrels

Movie
German title	Go to hell, you scoundrels
Original title	Gli specialisti
Country of production	Italy , France
original language	French
Publishing year	1969
length	104 (German version 84) minutes
Age rating	FSK 16, previously 18
Rod
Director	Sergio Corbucci
script	Sergio Corbucci Sabatino Ciuffini
production	Sergio Corbucci
music	Angelo Francesco Lavagnino
camera	Dario di Palma
cut	Elsa Armanni
occupation
Johnny Hallyday : Hud Gastone Moschin : Sheriff Sylvie Fennec : Sheba Serge Marquand : boat Gino Pernice : Romero, deputy Angela Luce : Valencia Mario Adorf : El Diablo Françoise Fabian : Virginia Pollycut Mario Castellani : Judge Ham Remo De Angelis : Romero Riccardo Domenici : Mac Lane Renato Pinciroli : Lord Lucio Rosato : Deputy Sheriff Mimmo Poli : Barman Pietro Ceccarelli : Pedro

Drive to hell, their scoundrels (original title: Gli specialisti ) is a Spaghetti Western by Sergio Corbucci from 1969. The Italian-French co-production, considerably shortened, had its German premiere on April 10, 1970. The film was also shown in Germany under the title The Specialists . The exterior shots for this spaghetti western were filmed in Cortina d'Ampezzo .

action

The loner Hud arrives in the town of Blackstone, where his brother Charlie was wrongly convicted and executed of a bank robbery. Hud wants to avenge his brother and get the money. He rescues a group of early hippies and, in search of his brother's murderers, comes into conflict with the powerful of the city, the gang of gangsters around the diary-writing El Diablo and these hippies. Hud must kill El Diablo, with whose help he initially dared the task, in the course of his investigation; finally he finds the gold - the trigger for the lynching of his brother - and also the real culprit, the widow Pollycut, who plundered the town of Blackstone.

Reviews

• "A total disappointment - not that it [the film] is bad, but you always wait for something special with Corbucci, and that just stays out (...)"
• "Relatively weak hippie western with a completely miscast Johnny Hallyday, which even Adorf's involvement cannot save."
• “Italo-Westerns of relentless brutality.” - Lexicon of international film
• "Brutal and cynical spaghetti western, which clearly serves to glorify violence."

Web links

• Gli specialisti in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Comparison of the cut versions German version - Japanese DVD from Fahrt zur Hölle, you scoundrels at Schnittberichte.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Christian Kessler: Willkommen in der Hölle, 2002, p. 237
2. ↑ Ulrich P. Bruckner: For a few more corpses
3. ↑ Go to hell, you scoundrels. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .  
4. ↑ Evangelischer Filmbeobachter , Review No. 163/2016