I'm an Escaped Chain Convict (1968)

Movie
German title	I am an escaped chain convict
Original title	Vivo per la tua morte
Country of production	Italy
original language	Italian
Publishing year	1968
length	90 minutes
Age rating	FSK 18
Rod
Director	Camillo Bazzoni; (as Alex Burks )
script	Roberto Natale; Steve Reeves
production	Manolo Bolognini
music	Carlo Savina
camera	Enzo Barboni
cut	Roberto Perpignani
occupation
	Steve Reeves : Mike Sturgis; Wayde Preston : Marlin Mayner; Mimmo Palmara : Sheriff Max Freeman ; (as Dick Palmer ); Silvana Venturelli : Ruth Harper; Guido Lollobrigida : Deputy Harry ; (as Lee Burton ); Rosalba Neri : Encarnación; Enzo Fiermonte : Baldy Morris; Giovanni Pazzafini : Bill Savage ; (as Ted Carter ); Silvana Bacci : Saloon girl; Mario Maranzana : bartender; Spartaco Conversi : Bobcat Bates; Giovanni Ivan Scratuglia : Roy Sturgis; Franco Balducci : Mason; Emma Baron : Mother; Bruno Corazzari : Shorty;

I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (Original title: Vivo per la tua morte ) is a 1,968-produced spaghetti westerns directed by Camillo Bazzoni . It was premiered in German-speaking countries on July 4, 1969. Alternative title is pardoned to death .

action

Mike Sturges and his family own a horse farm on farmland in Arizona. When the horses are stolen one day, he and his little brother Ray go in search of the thieves. They meet the railroad inspector Marlin Mayner, who warns them not to use the Dragon's Pass, because he knows about the plans of the bandits to rob the gold transport by train there and wants to keep Mike out of the matter. But he does not listen to him and after he was shot during the robbery while his brother was missing, he is arrested as a suspect by Sheriff Freeman. Together with his brother who has reappeared, he has to go to Yuma State Prison, where conditions are bad and Ray is tortured to death by a guard. Mike escapes to survive and takes revenge on Mayner and Freeman.

criticism

Christian Keßler describes the film as an “absolutely excellent B-Western” with a consistently entertaining story and “a very consistent style that deliberately omits realistic elements.” The Italian Segnalazioni Cinematografiche saw a mediocre film that uses the usual scheme and being excessively brutal. Figures and story are quite uninteresting and uninspired worked out. The lexicon of international films summarize: “Moderately exciting, but rough spaghetti westerns.” Even the Protestant film observer does not think much of the film: “Spaghetti westerns that are completely focused on brutalities. Superfluous."

Remarks

The script of Steve Reeves' only western - who was also involved in the script - is based on the novel "Judas Gun" by Gordon D. Shirreffs . Don Powell sings the movie song "The Long Ride West" .

Web links

I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang in the Internet Movie Database (English)
The film at comingsoon

Individual evidence

↑ Keßler: Welcome to Hell. 2002, p. 275
↑ Seglanazioni Cinematografiche, Vol. LXIV, 1969
↑ I am an escaped chain convict. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
↑ Evangelical Press Association, Munich, Review No. 332/1969

[1] Keßler: Welcome to Hell. 2002, p. 275

[2] Seglanazioni Cinematografiche, Vol. LXIV, 1969

[3] I am an escaped chain convict. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .

[4] Evangelical Press Association, Munich, Review No. 332/1969