Silver saddle

Movie
German title	Silver saddle (also: you die in boots)
Original title	Sella d'argento
Country of production	Italy
original language	Italian
Publishing year	1978
length	100 minutes
Age rating	FSK 18
Rod
Director	Lucio Fulci
script	Adriano Bolzoni
production	Piero Donati
music	Franco Bixio
camera	Sergio Salvati
cut	Ornella Micheli
occupation
Giuliano Gemma : Roy Blood Sven Valsecchi : Thomas Barrett jr. Ettore Manni : Thomas Barrett Gianni de Luigi : Turner Cinzia Monreale : Margaret Barrett Licinia Lentini : Miss Sheba Aldo Sambrell : Garrincha (as Aldo Sanbrell ) Philippe Hersent : Sheriff Donald O'Brien : Fletcher Sergio Leonardi : bartender Karine Stampfli Agnes Kalpagos Anna Maria Tinelli Geoffrey Lewis : Doublet Snake

Silbersattel (original title: Sella d'argento ) from 1978 is a late spaghetti western by the Italian director Lucio Fulci . It started in the German-speaking area on September 24, 1979.

action

Ten-year-old Roy Blood shoots his father's murderer. He takes his horse, which has a silver saddle. Many years later, Roy Blood comes through a desert-like area, where he meets the Leichenfledderer Doubletten-Snake after a stagecoach robbery. This then attaches itself to his heels and arranges an assignment for the murder of Thomas Barrett. However, only a small boy arrives at the cemetery where this is to be carried out and Roy is ambushed. From then on he reluctantly protects the little boy, as his uncle Thomas Barrett was one of his father's deceivers and is now acting in the background as an inheritance sneak. When the junior is kidnapped by the Mexican bandits Garrinchas, Roy himself comes under suspicion and is imprisoned. However, with the help of Margaret Barrett, he escapes from prison and, together with his accomplice Snake, saves the boy.

criticism

Most of the critics expressed their disappointment. For the lexicon of international film , the work was “an unimaginative but action-packed spaghetti western that reproduces a tried and tested scheme without originality”. Guntram Lenz summarized: (It was created) “a soft western, neither fish nor meat, neither colt nor water spray gun. A sometimes exciting gangster ballad of the supposedly noble against will in a bad time, whose staging could easily be Chicago or the White House. " Genre connoisseur Christian Keßler was also at odds: “The action scenes are set sparingly, but executed brilliantly. Nothing great, the film, but a safe bet that you can't go wrong with. "

Remarks

Ken Tobias sings the movie songs Silver Saddle and Two Hearts . They also appeared as a single (Cinevox MDF 119). The entire soundtrack was released on CD in 2004.

Filming locations were u. a. Nueva Frontera and the Cortijo del Fraile in the province of Almería .

The gross profit in Italy was 237 million lire .

Web links

• Silbersattel in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• The film at comingsoon.it

Individual evidence

1. ^ The film at the Archivio del Cinema Italiano
2. ↑ Silver saddle. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .  
3. ↑ Guntram Lenz, in: Filmecho / Filmwoche Heft 28, 1979
4. ↑ Christian Keßler : Willkommen in der Hölle, 2002. S. 225
5. ↑ http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/title/68445/Sella+D%27Argento
6. ^ Roberto Chiti, Roberto Poppi, Mario Pecorari: Dizionario del cinema italiano. I film vol. 4. Dal 1970 al 1979, tomo 2, MZ. Rome 1996, p. 270