''Mutiny at Fort Sharpe'' (Italian: ''Per un dollaro di gloria'') is a 1966 Italian-Spanish

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directed by

Fernando Cerchio Fernando Cerchio (7 August 1914 – 19 August 1974) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He directed more than 30 films between 1940 and 1972. Selected filmography * '' Men of the Mountain'' (1943) * ''Mistress of the Mountains'' ...

and starring

Broderick Crawford William Broderick Crawford (December 9, 1911 – April 26, 1986) was an American stage, film, radio, and television actor, often cast in tough-guy roles and best known for his Oscar- and Golden Globe-winning portrayal of Willie Stark in ''All t ...

Elisa Montés Elisa Rosario Ruiz Penella (born 15 December 1934, in Granada), known as Elisa Montés, is a Spanish actress who took her pseudonym from the celebrated work of her grandfather, Manuel Penella, '' El gato montés''. Montés is the sister of act ...

and

Mario Valdemarin is a character (arts), character created by Japanese video game designer Shigeru Miyamoto. He is the title character of the ''Mario (franchise), Mario'' franchise and the mascot of Japanese video game company Nintendo. Mario has appeared in ...

.Conway p.119 Produced when the boom in

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 ...

s was at its height, it is set during the French Intervention in Mexico. The film's sets were designed by the

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Giancarlo Bartolini Salimbeni.

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took place in Spain including at

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near

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Cast

as Colonel Lenox *

as Brenda *

as Captain Clermont *

Ugo Sasso Ugo Sasso, born Domenico Pasquale Giuseppe Sasso (23 March 1910 - 21 July 1981), was an Italian film and television actor. Life and career Born in Turin, in the early 1930s Sasso moved to Rome to attend the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia ...

as Sgt. Ross * José Marco as cabo Brandy *

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as Southern Medical Lieutenant

References

Bibliography

* Conway, Christopher. ''Heroes of the Borderlands: The Western in Mexican Film, Comics, and Music''. University of New Mexico Press, 2019.

External links

* 1966 films Italian Western (genre) films Spanish Western (genre) films 1966 Western (genre) films 1960s Italian-language films Films directed by Fernando Cerchio Spaghetti Western films Second French intervention in Mexico films 1960s Italian films {{1960s-Italy-film-stub it:Per un dollaro di gloria