''Fury of Johnny Kid'' ( it, Dove si spara di più, es, La furia de Johnny Kidd, also known as ''Ultimate Gunfighter'') is a 1967 Italian-Spanish film directed by
Gianni Puccini
Gianni Puccini (9 November 1914 – 3 December 1968) was an Italian screenwriter and film director. He wrote for 32 films between 1940 and 1967. He also directed 18 films between 1951 and 1968.
Selected filmography
* ''Ossessione'' (1943)
* ...
. The Italian and Spanish versions of the film have different endings.
The film is a
Spaghetti Western
The Spaghetti Western is a broad subgenre of Western films produced in Europe. It emerged in the mid-1960s in the wake of Sergio Leone's film-making style and international box-office success. The term was used by foreign critics because most o ...
version of
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare ( 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's nation ...
's tragedy ''
Romeo and Juliet
''Romeo and Juliet'' is a Shakespearean tragedy, tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about the romance between two Italian youths from feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular plays during his lifetim ...
''. Paul Naschy worked as an assistant director on this film, and Director Puccini told him he wanted to bring Naschy back to Rome to work with him on other projects. Sadly, Puccini died in Rome in December 1968, so it was not to be.
Plot
Two family clans have always been enemies; they spend their time hating and killing each other. The daughter of the Campos family and the son of the Mounter family fall in love, thus causing further hatred and deaths.
Cast
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Peter Lee Lawrence
Peter Lee Lawrence born Karl Hyrenbach (21 February 1944 in Lindau, Germany – 20 April 1974 in Rome, Italy), was a German actor and a citizen of France. He enjoyed brief fame as a prolific leading man of Spaghetti Westerns before dying at th ...
: Johnny Monter (credited as Arthur Grant)
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Cristina Galbó
Cristina Galbó Sánchez (born 17 January 1950) is a Spanish actress who achieved moderate fame in Europe during the late 1960s and early 1970s, making a name for herself in film mostly for European horror films.
In 1967 she appeared in '' Dov ...
: Jiulieta Campos
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María Cuadra: Rosalind
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Andrés Mejuto: Lefty
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Piero Lulli
Piero Lulli (1 February 1923 – 23 June 1991) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 111 films between 1942 and 1977. He was the brother of actor Folco Lulli.
Selected filmography
* ''A Pilot Returns'' (1942) - De Santis
* '' Love Stor ...
: Sheriff
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Peter Martell
Pietro Martellanza (30 September 1938 – 1 February 2010), best known as Peter Martell, was an Italian film actor who had numerous bigger roles in Spaghetti westerns. Sometimes he was credited as Pete Martell or Peter Martel.
Born in Bolzano, h ...
: Lodorigo Campos
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Luis Induni
Luis Induni (5 March 1920, in Romano di Lombardia, Bergamo, Lombardy, Italy – 31 December 1979, in Barcelona, Spain) was an Italian film actor of the 1950s 1960s and 1970s.
He made his debut in the western film ''Billy the Kid'' (1962) along ...
: Father Monter
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Ana María Noé
Ana María Noé (1914 – 9 July 1970) was a Spanish actress.
Biography
Ana María Noé began her artistic career in Barcelona and began to gain prominence after the Spanish Civil War. By 1940 she had her own company with which she performed ''Lo ...
: Mother Monter
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Ángel Álvarez
Ángel Álvarez (26 September 1906 – 13 December 1983) was a prolific Spanish film actor.
He made over 205 film appearances between 1945 and 1982. He is probably best known for his western films of the 1960s and 1970s. He appeared in Spaghet ...
: Padre
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Pepe Rubio
Pepe Rubio (September 10, 1931 – March 15, 2012) was a Spanish actor, known for comedies, whose professional career began in 1953 with theater.
Rubio was born in Lubrín, Province of Almería, Andalusia in 1931. His father was a miner. Rubio ...
: Jack (credited as José Rubio)
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Luciano Catenacci
Luciano Catenacci (13 April 1933 – 4 October 1990) was an Italian actor and production manager who worked on mainly Italian produced films during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.
Life and career
Born in Rome, Catenacci started his career as ...
: Campos henchman
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Paul Naschy
Paul Naschy (born Jacinto Molina Álvarez, September 6, 1934 – November 30, 2009) was a Spanish film actor, screenwriter, and director working primarily in horror films. His portrayals of numerous classic horror figures— The Wolfman, ...
as pistolero in saloon
References
External links
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''Fury of Johnny Kid''at
Variety Distribution
Variety Distribution is an Italian-based film distribution company.
It distributes Italian films worldwide, produced from the 1930s onward.
History
Variety Distribution (formerly Variety Film and Variety Communications) has been in the film ...
1967 films
Films directed by Gianni Puccini
Spaghetti Western films
Films based on Romeo and Juliet
1967 Western (genre) films
1960s Italian films
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