Giarrettiera Colt

Movie
Original title	Giarrettiera Colt
Country of production	Italy
original language	Italian
Publishing year	1967
length	102 minutes
Rod
Director	Gian Andrea Rocco
script	Vittorio Pescatori Gian Andrea Rocco Giovanni Gigliozzi Brunello Maffei
production	Giovanni Vari
music	Enzo Fusco Gianfranco Plenizio
camera	Gino Santini
cut	Mario Salvatore
occupation
Nicoletta Machiavelli : Lulu, "Giarrettiera Colt" Claudio Camaso : Red Marisa Solinas : Rosie Yorgo Voyagis : Benito Juarez James Martin : Sheriff Gaspare Zola : Emperor Maximilian Elvira Cortese : Elvira Franco Bucceri : Doctor Silvana Bacci : Red's masseuse Brunello Maffei Franco Scala : a Drogas soldier Giovanni Ivan Scratuglia : Roger Albert Hammerman Isabella Guidotti Arnaldo Fabrizio : Lulu's baby Walter Barnes : General Droga

Giarrettiera Colt is a spaghetti western from 1967, that of Gian Andrea Rocco was staged. With Nicoletta Machiavelli , a female character rare in this genre is placed at the center of the plot. A German title, Das Coltstrumpfband , exists, but no performance in German-speaking countries can be proven.

action

At the time of the revolution against Maximilian, a stagecoach was attacked on the Mexican border , in which young Lulu and a soldier who had fled were also found. The woman can use her shooting skills to put the bandits around her boss Red to flight. Lulu finds accommodation in a hotel and works as a poker player who knows all about it. Meanwhile, Red is smuggling arms for the benefit of the revolutionaries. The deliveries are accompanied by a French man disguised as a Mexican, with whom Lulu, who is also known as the "Garter Colt" and who is actually supposed to fight the opposing party on behalf of Benito Juarez, falls in love. Jean wants to lead a quiet life with Lulu and tells her to stop cheating poker. When he is shortly killed by revolutionaries, Lulu seeks and finds the confrontation with Red, whom she kills in a duel. From then on she lives her life as a player.

criticism

Christian Keßler mockingly judges the scripts: "A film should have a beginning, a middle and an end - but please not all at the same time".

Remarks

The exterior shots were taken in the vicinity of Oristano . The film had very limited theatrical use in Italy.

Web links

• Giarrettiera Colt in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• The film at comingsoon

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Giarrettiera Colt. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .  
2. ↑ Keßler: Welcome to Hell. 2002, p. 108
3. ^ Robert Poppi, Mario Pecorari: Dizionario del Cinema Italiano. I film vol. 3. Dal 1960 al 1969. Gremese 1992, p. 232