''The Forgotten Pistolero'' (
Italian: ''Il pistolero dell'Ave Maria'', lit. "The Gunman of Hail Mary") is a
1969
This year is notable for Apollo 11's first landing on the moon.
Events January
* January 4 – The Government of Spain hands over Ifni to Morocco.
* January 5
**Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 701 crashes into a house on its approach to ...
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 ...
film co-written and directed by
Ferdinando Baldi. The film is a western adaptation of the
Greek myth of
Orestes, subject of three famous drama-plays by
Aeschylus,
Sophocles and
Euripides. Ulrich P. Bruckner puts it among the "most interesting and most touching Spaghetti Westerns of the late sixties".
Plot
When he returns home from war the Mexican
general Juan Carrasco is killed by the lover of his wife Anna and by Anna as well. The victim's children run away with their nanny but fifteen years later they come back for revenge. Anna and Tomas want to have them killed but their henchmen failed to do so. It turns out that Anna is not the real mother of the dead general's children.
Cast
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Leonard Mann as
Sebastian Carrasco
*
Luciana Paluzzi as
Anna Carrasco
*
Peter Martell as
Rafael Garcia
*
Alberto de Mendoza as
Tomas
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Pilar Velázquez as
Isabella Carrasco
*
Piero Lulli as Francisco
*
Luciano Rossi as Juanito
*
José Suárez as
General Juan Carrasco
* Barbara Nelly as Conchita
*
Enzo Fiermonte as Friar
*
José Manuel Martín as Miguel
Releases
Wild East Productions released this on a limited edition DVD in 2007 with ''
The Unholy Four
''A Stranger Came Home'' is a 1954 British film noir directed by Terence Fisher and starring Paulette Goddard, William Sylvester and Patrick Holt. The film was produced by Hammer Films at Bray Studios with sets designed by the art director J ...
''.
See also
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List of Italian films of 1969
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List of Spaghetti Western films
This list of Spaghetti Western films includes Western films primarily produced and directed by Italian production companies between 1913 and 1978. For a list of non-Italian produced European Westerns see List of Euro-Western films.
In the 19 ...
References
External links
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1969 films
Films based on works by Euripides
Spaghetti Western films
1969 Western (genre) films
Films directed by Ferdinando Baldi
Films with screenplays by Vincenzo Cerami
Films shot in Almería
Films scored by Roberto Pregadio
Modern adaptations of works by Euripides
Works based on Agamemnon (Aeschylus play)
Works based on The Libation Bearers
Modern adaptations of works by Aeschylus
Films based on works by Aeschylus
1960s Italian films
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