Vengeance for vengeance
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Vengeance for vengeance |
| Original title | Vendetta per vendetta |
| Country of production | Italy |
| original language | Italian |
| Publishing year | 1968 |
| length | 99 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Mario Colucci (as Ray Calloway ) |
| script | Mario Colucci |
| production | Natalino Gullo |
| music | Angelo Francesco Lavagnino |
| camera | Giuseppe Aquari |
| cut | Enzo Micarelli |
| occupation | |
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Revenge for revenge (original title: Vendetta per vendetta ) is a spaghetti western from 1968. Mario Colucci directed under the pseudonym John Ireland and Loredana Nusciak in a moderately budgeted film that was shown in cinemas in German-speaking countries from September 20th of that year.
action
Half-blood Shariko ends up in a small town in the west that is ruled with an iron hand by the former Confederate officer Major Bower. Resistant and steadfast, he faces the provocations and challenges posed by his men. Sandy, the major's wife, tells him about a pot of gold that she has been able to keep a secret from her greedy husband until now. When Bower notices a conversation between the two of them, he jealously kills his wife and has Shariko tortured. He reveals the hiding place of the gold.
Freed by the saloon owner Baker and his daughter, who is promised half of the treasure in return, Shariko escapes and locates the gold in a chair of the mayor. While Baker has now been murdered by Bower, he can kill his right hand Pico and challenge Bower himself to a duel. Against the appointment, Bower brings all of his people to the meeting, but Shariko can take them all out with guns and dynamite. The final duel is won by Shariko, who rides away with the gold; a bullet hole in it, however, spreads it unnoticed between all the rocks on its way.
criticism
The “brutal” film concentrates on the essentials and is succinct, but at least made sufficiently neat, according to Christian Keßler . JM Sabatier states that the conception and execution are mediocre, but is surprised by the psychopathological climate that the film achieves through very brutal additions such as the scourging of the hero, a homoerotic relationship between the hero and the villain and torture with the help of boot spurs. The Protestant film observer considers the work to be a tired spaghetti western of the well-known fight of the lone rider against the city tyrant and sums it up: “Completely tension-free, boring and brutal. Superfluous."
Remarks
4 pieces of the film music appeared in France in 1988 on the LP EVB A 101.
The popular length of the Italian version is 83 minutes.
Web links
- Revenge for revenge in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The film at comingsoon.it
Individual evidence
- ↑ Revenge for revenge. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Keßler: Welcome to Hell . 2000, p. 270
- ^ Sabatier, in: Saison '74 . Paris, 1974
- ↑ Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 452/1968
- ^ R. Poppi, M. Pecorari: Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film Vol. 3 . Rome, 1992, p. 590