''Garter Colt'' (''Giarrettiera Colt'') is a 1968 Italian

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 ...

directed by Gian Andrea Rocco. It is one of the rare Italo-Westerns with a woman as lead character and was shot in

Sardinia Sardinia ( ; it, Sardegna, label=Italian, Corsican and Tabarchino ; sc, Sardigna , sdc, Sardhigna; french: Sardaigne; sdn, Saldigna; ca, Sardenya, label=Algherese and Catalan) is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after ...

at a town named San Salvatore di Sinis.

Plot

At the

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, a brave young woman defends herself from the attack of the fearsome bandit, "Red", mastering a gun and the game of poker. Falling in love with a young Frenchman, he asks her to give up gambling and start a quiet and normal life, but when the young man is abducted by "Red", she is determined to seek revenge.

Cast

Nicoletta Machiavelli Nicoletta Machiavelli (1 August 1944 – 15 November 2015) was an Italian film actress, also known as Nicoletta Rangoni Machiavelli and Nicoletta Macchiavelli. Life and career The daughter of a Florentine father and of an American mother, Mach ...

as Lulu, - Giarrettiera Colt *

Claudio Camaso Claudio Camaso (born Claudio Volonté; 3 February 1939 – 16 September 1977) was an Italian actor, noted as much for his troubled, violent life as for his performances. He was the younger brother of Gian Maria Volonté. Early life and career C ...

(Claudio Volonté) as Red *

Marisa Solinas Marisa Anna Solinas (30 May 1939 – 12 February 2019), best known as Marisa Solinas, was an Italian actress and singer. Life Born in Genoa to a Sardinian father and a Tuscan mother from Garfagnana, Marisa Solinas made her film debut in 1961, ...

as Rosie *

Yorgo Voyagis Yorgo Voyagis ( el, Γιώργος Βογιατζής, Giorgos Vogiadzis ; born 6 December 1945) is a Greek actor. Career as an actor Voyagis' film debut was in Michael Cacoyannis's ''Zorba the Greek'' (1964). He reappeared three years later in ...

as Benito Juarez/Carlos * Walter Barnes as General Droga * Gaspare Zola as Emperor Maximilian/Jean * Silvana Bacci * Franco Bucceri as the Doctor * Elvira Cortese as Elvira * James Martin as Sheriff * Giovanni Ivan Scratuglia as Roger

References

External links

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Giarrettiera Colt
at the Spaghetti Western Database 1968 films Spaghetti Western films 1960s Western (genre) comedy films Italian films about revenge Films scored by Giovanni Fusco Films shot in Sardinia 1968 comedy films Italian Western (genre) comedy films 1960s Italian films {{1960s-Western-film-stub