La notte dei serpenti

Movie
Original title	La notte dei serpenti
Country of production	Italy
original language	Italian
Publishing year	1969
length	106 minutes
Age rating	FSK 18
Rod
Director	Giulio Petroni
script	Fulvio Gicca Palli Vincenzo Gicca Palli Giulio Petroni
music	Riz Ortolani
camera	Mario Vulpiani Silvio Fraschetti
occupation
Luke Askew : Luke Luigi Pistilli : Colonel "Snake" Hernandez Magda Konopka : Maria Guglielmo Spoletini : Antonio Pancaldo (as William Bogard ) Luciano Casamonica : Manuel Franco Balducci : Venustiano Giancarlo Badessi : Ignacio Monica Miguel : Ignacio's wife Franco Valobra : Jesús Maria, sacristan Benito Stefanelli : Pancho Clara Colosimo : Mercedes Chelo Alonso : Dolores

La notte dei serpenti is a Spaghetti Western by Giulio Petroni from 1969.

action

The corrupt mayor of a Mexican village, Don Venustiano, plans to kill the orphan Manuel, together with the tavern owner Ignacio and the prostitute María Dolores, in order to obtain an inheritance of 10,000 dollars that his late father left him. The local sheriff Hernández gets behind the plan and blackmails the group in order to get his part himself. He offers to find a suitable murderer for the job and turns to Pancaldo, the leader of a local gang of criminals. Pancaldo orders one of his men, Luke, who has become a drunkard out of grief over the self-inflicted death of his son, to carry out the deed, but withholds the fact that it is a child. Luke arrives in the village and is refused by all residents; only Manuel, who lives with Mary, who cares for him, becomes friends with him. When Luke realizes that Manuel himself is the potential victim, he not only decides not to carry out the deed, but to protect him. Ignacio can take possession of the child, but Luke succeeds - Don Venustiano has meanwhile been hanged by Hernández, found and Dolores is also dead - to free Manuel. In the final duel, he can also shoot Hernández.

Reviews

"Good and rare Giulio Petroni western with a rare genre appearance by Luke Askew."

- Ulrich P. Bruckner

"Despite complicated and absurd attempts to break the usual pattern, this western cannot keep interest alive," said Segnalazione Cinematografiche .

background

The film premiered on December 23, 1969.

Leading actor Luke Askew was best known for his role in the cult film Easy Rider , which appeared in the same year.

Luigi Pistilli , a well-known face of the Spaghetti Western, had already played in Petronis Western two years earlier. The bill is paid with lead .

Web links

• La notte dei serpenti in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ulrich P. Bruckner: For a few more corpses. Munich 2006, p. 444.
2. ↑ quoted from the page on the film at comingsoon.it