Garringo - the executioner

Movie
German title	Garringo - the executioner
Original title	Garringo
Country of production	Spain , Italy
original language	Spanish
Publishing year	1969
length	90 (German: 81) minutes
Age rating	FSK 18
Rod
Director	Rafael Romero Marchent
script	José Romero Marchent Nino Scolaro Arpad De Riso
music	Marcello Giombini
camera	Aldo Ricci
cut	Enzo Alabiso Ana Maria Romero Marchent
occupation
Anthony Steffen : Lieutenant Garringo Harris Peter Lee Lawrence : Johnny Solvi Stübing : Julie José Bodalo : Sheriff Klaus Raf Baldassarre : Damon Rossana Rovere : Sarah Luis Marin : Bounty Hunter Pete Marta Monterrey : Nancy Grayson Barta Barry : Wilson, barman Antonio Molino Rojo : Harriman Lorenzo Robledo : Tom Luis Induni : Doctor Grayson Guillermo Mendéz : Johnny's helper Frank Braña : Bill Tito García : Ted Xan das Bolas : Telegraph operator

Garringo - the executioner (original title: Garringo ) is a Spanish-Italian spaghetti western directed by Rafael Romero Marchent in 1968, at the height of the genre. The film, starring Anthony Steffen and Peter Lee Lawrence , was released in German cinemas on May 15, 1970, albeit in a shortened version. It was only performed in Spain in 1972.

action

As a child, Johnny watched helplessly as his father was murdered, who was accused of treason by his comrades. He grows up with a sheriff and his daughter Julie into a serious young man who tries to come to terms with the trauma he has experienced with a double life. The meek boy then becomes a cold-blooded criminal who captures and kills soldiers.
The military leadership hires the clever and determined Lieutenant Garringo to solve the crimes, who becomes a friend of the sheriff and admirer of Julie after fighting some bandits. When he can reveal the true story, Garringo turns to the sheriff, who vacillates between feeling and duty. In another attack on a convoy, Johnny is killed by an accomplice for distributing the booty.

criticism

One of those numerous westerns that lack coherence, wrote B. Duffort in “Saison '71”: “The boy's psychological development, which almost automatically turns his emotions into crime, is not sufficiently carried out, and so the action remains as the only motor of the film. "The lexicon of the international film judges even more clearly :" A sloppily made spaghetti western with tendencies glorifying violence. "

GP im Film-Dienst also interprets politically: “So far only a few spaghetti westerns have announced fascist sentiments more openly. A director tries for 80 minutes to show how worthless a life is. (...) Then what is the whole story other than the call for euthanasia? "

The evangelical film observer is ambivalent : “A formally remarkable spaghetti western, which presents its barbaric story with uncompromising severity. From 18 possible, but without recommendation. "

Remarks

The exterior shots of the film were made in Spain (namely in Alcalá de Henares , Seseña , Ciempozuelos and Soria ); the interior shots in the Roman Elios studios.

Web links

• Garringo - the executioner in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.mundocine.net/Garringo-pelicula-1266.html
2. ↑ Duffort, season '71, Paris 1971st
3. ↑ Garringo - the executioner. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .  
4. ↑ Critique 16872
5. ↑ quoted from Ulrich P. Bruckner: For a few more corpses. Munich 2006, p. 311
6. ↑ Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 237/1970
7. ↑ Ulrich P. Bruckner: For a few more corpses, Munich 2006, p. 595