''Gatling Gun'' ( it, Quel caldo maledetto giorno di fuoco, es, La ametralladora, also known as ''Damned Hot Day of Fire'' and ''Machine Gun Killers'') is a
1968
The year was highlighted by protests and other unrests that occurred worldwide.
Events January–February
* January 5 – "Prague Spring": Alexander Dubček is chosen as leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.
* Januar ...
Italian-Spanish
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 ...
film directed by
Paolo Bianchini
Paolo Bianchini (born 1931) is an Italian director and screenwriter.
Life and career
Born in Rome, Bianchini began his career in 1953 working as assistant director of a number of notable directors, including Mario Monicelli, Luigi Comencini, ...
and starring
Robert Woods.
Plot
In the waning days of the Civil War,
Richard Gatling
Richard Jordan Gatling (September 12, 1818 – February 26, 1903) was an American inventor best known for his invention of the Gatling gun, which is considered to be the first successful machine gun.
Life
Gatling was born in Hertford County, Nort ...
, creator of the
gatling gun
The Gatling gun is a rapid-firing multiple-barrel firearm invented in 1861 by Richard Jordan Gatling. It is an early machine gun and a forerunner of the modern electric motor-driven rotary cannon.
The Gatling gun's operation centered on a cyc ...
, offers his invention to the Federal Government. But Gatling is kidnapped by two assassins - under the employ of Tarpas. They also steal his new invention and kill three Union government agents. Soon after, the
Pinkerton Agency
Pinkerton is a private security guard and detective agency established around 1850 in the United States by Scottish-born cooper Allan Pinkerton and Chicago attorney Edward Rucker as the North-Western Police Agency, which later became Pinkerton ...
sends out Cpt. Chris Tanner (himself a former secret service agent) to find Gatling and recover the weapon.
Cast
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Robert Woods as Cpt. Chris Tanner
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John Ireland
John Benjamin Ireland (January 30, 1914 – March 21, 1992) was a Canadian actor. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his performance in ''All the King's Men'' (1949), making him the first Vancouver-born actor to receive an Oscar nomina ...
as Tarpas
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Ida Galli
Ida Galli is an Italian film actress best known for her roles in Spaghetti Western and giallo films in the 1960s and 1970s. Galli has appeared under several pseudonyms, including Arianna, Evelyn Stewart and Isli Oberon.
Extremely prolific, som ...
as Belinda Boyd
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Claudie Lange
Claudie Lange is a Belgian actress and model, mainly active in Italian cinema.
Lange entered the film industry at 21, when she met Federico Fellini during a vacation in Rome; Fellini gave her a minor part in ''Juliet of the Spirits'' (1965), and ...
as Martha Simpson
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as Rykert
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Roberto Camardiel
Roberto Camardiel Escudero (29 November 1917, in Alagón, Zaragoza – 15 June 1989, in Zaragoza) was a Spanish theatre director and actor.
He appeared in ''Culpables'' and ''Bajo el cielo andaluz'' (1960), both directed by Arturo Ruiz-Castill ...
as Dr. Alan Curtis
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Gérard Herter
Gérard Herter, also known as Gerhard Haerter, Gerard Haerther, Gerald Herter, Gerard Herter, and Gerhard Herter (born 12 April 1920 in Stuttgart, died 6 February 2007 in Munich) was a German actor of the 1950s and 1960s who played many villains ...
as Mr. Bishop
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Furio Meniconi
Furio Meniconi (22 February 1924 – 12 December 1981) was an Italian film and television actor.
Life and career
Meniconi was born in Rome into a family active in the cinema industry in the technical cast, or engaged in the general organizatio ...
as Jeremiah Grant
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Tom Felleghy
Tom Felleghy (born Tamás Fellegi; 26 November 1921) is a Hungarian-born Italian actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films since 1958.
Filmography
References
External links
*
1921 births
Possibly living people
Hungarian ma ...
as Pinkerton
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Ennio Balbo
Ennio Balbo (18 April 1922 – 18 June 1989) was an Italian film, television and voice actor.
Biography
Born in Naples, Balbo made his debut on stage immediately after the Second World War alongside Paola Borboni and Lamberto Picasso in Lu ...
as Richard Gatling
* Tiziano Cortini as Jonathan Wallace
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Rada Rassimov
Rada Rassimov (born Rada Đerasimović (Serbian Cyrillic: Рада Ђерасимовић) on 3 March 1941 in Trieste, Italy) is an Italian actress of Serb origin, who has appeared in film since the early 1960s and television since 1975.
Biog ...
as Mrs. Treble
References
External links
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Spanish Western (genre) films
Spaghetti Western films
1968 Western (genre) films
1968 films
Films directed by Paolo Bianchini
1960s Italian films
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