Deadly Revenge (1976)
Movie | |
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German title | Deadly revenge |
Original title | Kid Vengeance |
Country of production | Israel , United States |
original language | English |
Publishing year | 1976 |
length | 94 minutes |
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Director |
Joseph Manduke , (as Joe Manduke ) |
script |
Bud Robbins , Jay Tefler , Ken Globus |
production |
Menahem Golan , Frank Johnson , Alex Hacohen |
music | Francesco De Masi |
camera | David Garfinkel |
occupation | |
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Deadly Revenge (international title: Kid Vengeance ) is a the spaghetti westerns of related movie in Israeli-American co-production, Joseph Manduke with genre star Lee Van Cleef staged in one of the lead roles. The film, which was first released on video in the German-speaking area, received negative reviews from the critics without exception.
action
Tom is 15 when his family, peaceful settlers, are ambushed by the McClains gang; the parents are murdered, the sister Lisa kidnapped. Tom goes after the bandits; in doing so, he teams up with the colored gold prospector Isaac. With different tools - shovel, snake, scorpion, stones, ropes and arrows - they kill the individual members of the gang. In the village of Santa Cruz you will find McClains' retreat; there he exploits the prospectors. Isaac can gradually get the people on his side and finally faces McClain in a final duel.
criticism
“A moderate straggler of the Spaghetti Western with Lee Van Cleef as the bandit boss who looks more like a pirate. The film falls out of the usual genre only because of the youthful hero and the end (the son of the bandit boss renounces killing the hero) ”, so the lexicon of the international film . Leonard Maltin calls the film "bloody, murderous, obnoxious".
Web links
- Deadly Revenge in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ According to all Italian sources, no local production company was involved
- ↑ Deadly revenge. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ^ Leonard Maltin's TV and video guide. 1991, p. 609