Guns for San Salvador
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Guns for San Salvador |
| Original title | Gli avventurieri dei Tropici |
| Country of production | Italy |
| original language | Italian |
| Publishing year | 1960 |
| length | 100 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Sergio Bergonzelli |
| script | Sergio Bergonzelli Frank Gregory |
| music | Aldo Piga |
| camera | Alberto Fusi |
| cut | Alberto Gallitti |
| occupation | |
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Weapons for San Salvador (original title: Gli avventurieri dei Tropici ) is an adventure film whose German-language premiere took place on August 17, 1962.
action
In the Indian area on the Rio Paraná , a group of workers led by Fernand is clearing a piece of forest. The seedy Fernand is also involved in arms trafficking, which benefits the guerrilla force led by the Colored Salvador and the beautiful Libertà. Fernand also has dark pasts in his private life: He made sure that his brother Frank was imprisoned innocently and then married his lover Jana.
Frank, long released, comes to the area as an employee of a railway company. He enters into a contest with his brother by also selling weapons; not only to the guerrillas fighting for independence, but also to the ruling oppressors. When Salvador and his people are attacked and badly beaten by their opponents, Frank, impressed by the heroism of the fighting, promises the surviving guerrillas more and better weapons. When his brother is attacked and wounded by the Indians, Frank overcomes his desire for revenge and saves him. As a result, he loses all of his profits from the arms business, which is destroyed in a major fire. Fernand dies of his serious injuries; Frank can now marry Jana after all.
criticism
An adventure film with "moderate tension and slurred views of honor, justice and honesty."
Remarks
The film grossed 112 million lire in Italy . The costumes were created by Paola Zingoni, the buildings by Mario Nazzaro.
Web links
- Weapons for San Salvador in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The film at comingsoon.it
Individual evidence
- ↑ Spelling according to Archivio del Cinema Italiano
- ^ Weapons for San Salvador. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ^ Roberto Poppi, Mario Pecorari: Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film Vol. 3, dal 1960 al 1969. Gremese, Rome, 1992, p. 57