Deadly Revenge (1976)

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Movie
German title Deadly revenge
Original title Kid Vengeance
Country of production Israel , United States
original language English
Publishing year 1976
length 94 minutes
Rod
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

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

Individual evidence

  1. According to all Italian sources, no local production company was involved
  2. Deadly revenge. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ^ Leonard Maltin's TV and video guide. 1991, p. 609