Deadly ride to Sacramento

Movie
German title	Deadly ride to Sacramento
Original title	Con lui cavalca la morte
Country of production	Italy
original language	Italian
Publishing year	1967
length	92 (German version 79; on video 66) minutes
Age rating	FSK 16
Rod
Director	Giuseppe Vari (as Joseph Warren )
script	Augusto Caminito Fernando Di Leo Adriano Bolzoni
production	Franco Palombi Gabriele Silvestri Enzo Bulgarelli
music	Lallo Gori
camera	Amerigo Gengarelli
cut	Giuseppe Vari (without credit)
occupation
Mike Marshall : Bobby "Idaho" Kent Hélène Chanel : Dolores Talbot Andrea Bosic : Bryan Talbot Claudio Undari : Luke Prentiss (as Robert Hundar ) Paolo Giusti : Kriss Carole André : Susan Giuseppe Addobbati (as John McDouglas ) Paola Natale Luisa Della Noce : Susan's mother Amerigo Santarelli : Chef at Talbot Claudio Ruffini : one of Talbot's people Attilio Severini : Warwick

Deadly ride to Sacramento (OT: Con lui cavalca la morte ) is a 1967 incurred spaghetti westerns of Giuseppe Vari . The film was also shown in German-speaking countries under the short title Tödlicher Ritt and only in a considerably cut version; it was only shown in the cinema years after its creation, on April 25, 1975.

content

Bobby "Idaho" Kent is an agent for a Pony Express company and is sent to Sacramento to find incriminating documents for the murder of the local Senate candidate Bryan Talbot, who is running for the post against Stuart Cooper, and is spending huge sums of money on the election campaign and boycotted the Pony Express operation. Talbot finds out about this and sets up an ambush for Kent. But it is also saved by the intervention of a group of pioneers; he steals a horse from the group so that they can continue riding.

A new ambush attempt by the bandit boss Kriss ends even less successfully: he and three of his men are killed by Idaho; a few survivors inform Talbot, who now, against the advice of his wife Dolores, hires thirty people to finally eliminate Kent; Dolores pays Luke Prentiss, a sniper she was once dating, for the same job. The thirty men fight a tough battle with Idaho and the settlers who come to aid again, and suffer heavy losses. Prentiss, on the other hand, can catch Idaho Kent, disarm him and throw him into a ravine in a duel. Then he returns to Sacramento.

On election day, the man believed dead, who survived the fall, shows up in Sacramento and uses the evidence and testimony to seal the fate of Talbot, Dolores and Prentiss. The Pony Express can run again.

criticism

"Template-like spaghetti westerns with meager humorous approaches."

- Lexicon of international film .

• “Vice” wrote in Il Giorno : “This umpteenth spaghetti western has nothing at all to add something new to the topics we have scanned. All known ingredients are included; but the mix is ​​not very convincing. Shot with limited resources, it also shows the poverty of content in contemporary westerns. "

Remarks

What is unusual in this film are the drawn transitions that connect the scenes.

The German theatrical version was cut down to 79 minutes; the video version was only 66 minutes long.

Web links

• Deadly ride to Sacramento in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• The film at comingsoon (Italian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Fatal ride to Sacramento. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .  
2. ↑ in: Il Giorno , 17/12/1968
3. ↑ Christian Keßler: Willkommen in der Hölle , 2002, p. 63