1964
Spain v Italy
Director : Cousin & Siro Marcellini Zeglio
Cast : Ty Hardin , Iran Eory, Piero Leri, Joe Kamel, Jose Nieto, John Bartha, Jose Marco, Rafael Albaicín, W. Hacobre, Phil Posner, Giovanni Petti, Luis Induni
: Remo Grisanti, Alfredo Fraile
Music: Francesco De Masi, Manuel Parada
SYNOPSIS: Gwen Barrett, a white woman married to a "civilized "Indian despite opposition from his father, is kidnapped by the Apaches. After being released by her husband Walscott meets Johnny, a lonely cowboy with a sad past love, the care and the accompanying Uvaldo, the nearest town, where they will suffer the misunderstanding of his father and must take a painful choice.
English-Italian co-production directed by Primo Zeglio 1964, although its authorship is attributed to Siro Marcellini, writer and filmmaker who filmed having basically adapted adventure films in the early nineteen- sixties to the prevailing fashion of western euro with films like "The rural Texas," "The four ruthless" or "Winchester one in a thousand" .
is therefore a pre-boom western Encyclical, produced by Eduardo Manzano, key figure in the birth and development of western Hispanic, through its Phoenix Films and Ernesto Gastaldi, a lawyer restless love of cinema, a key figure not only in the development of western Mediterranean to produce the most films set in the West made by the pioneer for Joaquín Luis Romero Marchent the sixties, and some of the best spaghetti made as "Death was a price," "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly," "The Flame and the prey," "Face / Off or " Salary to kill ", but also in European cinema in the sixties to mid seventies, and that through his company, the European Produzioni Associati (PEA) and having secured the international distribution of its films through United Artists, authors collaborated with the likes of Fellini (" Satiricon ", "Casanova ), Pontecorvo (" Queimada "), Bertolucci (" Last Tango in Paris "," Novecento "), Pasolini (so-called trilogy of life and" Salo or the 120 Days of Sodom ") and even with Billy Wilder, (" What happened between your father and mother? ").
modest proposal with clear budget shortfalls and what is worse, both technical and artistic. So after some initial credits aesthetic of the western series of the fifties and early sixties that proliferated in American television (do not know if it was a desired effect since starred Ty Hardin one of them) the film scene opens with a clear example of what not to be the direction, setting and interpretation of a movie if you want to be minimally credible. But the worst thing is that thanks to an embarrassing script and clumsy direction the movie is at this level throughout their development, thank goodness it only lasts for eighty minutes. So in the next scene, in a resounding raccord error, we see that the dress she had broken the protagonist in the struggle with the Indians appears miraculously sewn, and then witnessing the persecution of Tamura, the Indian husband of Gwen, by the Apaches that seems taken from a western made in series starring John Wayne in the thirties, we see another scene like this comes to a ranch, of course unfurnished, where he waited three Indians, after killing them, the same goes, of course one wonders what the hell had gone to the ranch? o How did the Indians who would go there?; Meanwhile, Gwen Walscott has led to his cabin and there is about a well-known that Johnny just happens to ask whether you got a horse (they tell me how he could do if it is over because a horse ranch is lost in the mountains), as well as the visitor, another lynx, as Gwen does not drink thought to be India, but one that I know there were Indian-skinned and blond hair. And the whole movie is crazy at this level also going slowly tilting toward the cheesy melodrama with girl repellent included (daughter of former marriage of Johnny). To cap the film has certain claims to treat, albeit banal, the issue of problem of miscegenation and cultural relations in the Far West, with a message, I do not know if sought, somewhat disturbing: only good Indians are civilized and Tamura, ie those who have abandoned their culture and way of life, behave as a better target, and even dress like them. And all this we must add a somewhat pretentious dialogues are ridiculous and untrue, as maintained by Gwen and Johnny on the river, saying the first: "I am the daughter of Sam Barret. I understand that seems a monstrosity that a white woman married to an Indian, but I love him and always will love "(that just before they about to fall into his arms) and Johnny replied " know perfectly well that love does not fit prejudices ... everyone should come as his heart and conscience," as great, everyone was happy. And best of all is that no one understands, because he never explain it, the leitmotif of the film, that is the lair of the Apaches by Gwen to pursuing everywhere, kidnapping several times and even cause a slaughter in a ranch, rather a shack, in a battle scene shot clumsily.
The setting, designed by the normally reliable company established by Cubero and Galicia, is another failed, I suppose because of the narrowness budget. Thus both the people (in the interior and exterior views) and the estate of Sam Barret seem what they are: Andalusian houses, for what the actors are totally out of context in a more typical decoration for Curro Jiménez and robbers game.
As for the soundtrack of maestro Manuel Parada, although I have seen attributed to Francesco De Masi, without being a little marvel is salvageable of the film and has a main theme debtor classic westerns also reminds the aforementioned series.
As regards the division, in front of it, in order to make more commercial film, Ty Hardin is featured, low hours U.S. actor who had had great success with "Bronco " series set in the Warner Bross West were issued almost seventy episodes between 1958 and 1962. This gives life to a listless and in several scenes wearing his pecs to Johnny, a cowboy and help philosopher who falls in love with Gwen but in the end you know give it up. Beside him Eory Iran, Tehran-born actress who worked well in the English cinema of the sixties and ended up starring in multiple soap operas in Argentina during the next decade, performing shows all its limitations as Gwen, clear that their role gets it because it is the contradiction embodied: it is very much in love, or at least not tired of saying it, her husband and the first change makes ding Johnny, are you convinced all your ranch with Tamura, but nothing more to see his father convinces him to return to clear your a little man!. Thankfully, José Nieto goes around and puts a bit of experience and professionalism to embody Sam Barrett, an authoritarian man who has not accepted the marriage of his daughter Tamura because this is a red skin. Undoubtedly, the presence of this actor, tanning in countless movies, is also what little salvageable from the movie.
In summary, a western really bad, even below any decent TV movie, series b clone of Americans, only suitable for those who wish to complete their knowledge of the western Mediterranean and have much patience and time to lose.
SCORE
HISTORY: 1
AMBIENTE: 1
ADDRESS: 1
ACTORS 3
MUSIC: 5
MEDIA: 2.2
SCORE
HISTORY: 1
AMBIENTE: 1
ADDRESS: 1
ACTORS 3
MUSIC: 5
MEDIA: 2.2
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