''Stranger in Sacramento'' or ''Uno straniero a Sacramento'' is a 1965

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film directed by

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. It was based on the novel ''I Will Kill You Tomorrow'' by Jim Murphy.

Cast

Mickey Hargitay Mickey Hargitay (January 6, 1926 – September 14, 2006), born Miklós Karoly Hargitay, was a Hungarian-American actor and the 1955 Mr. Universe. Born in Budapest, Hargitay moved to the United States in 1947 and eventually became a U.S. citi ...

as Mike Jordan * Enrico Bomba as Chris (as Steve Saint-Claire) *

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as Mill (as Johnny Jordan) *

Giulio Marchetti Giulio Marchetti (9 June 1911 – 1 December 1993) was an Italian stage, film and television actor and presenter. Life and career Born in Barcelona, Marchetti was the grandson of the operetta actor and comedian Giulio and the son of the theatr ...

as Sheriff Joe (as James Hill) * Florencia Silvero as Lisa (as Flo Silver) *

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as Rona Barret * Big Matthews (as Big I. Matthews) * Gia Sandri * Luciano Benetti as Deputy sheriff (as Lucky Bennett) *

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as Rosa (saloon dancer) * Ariel Brown *

Renato Chiantoni Renato Chiantoni (19 April 1906 – 24 December 1979) was an Italian actor. He appeared in 100 films between 1937 and 1978. Born in Brescia, the son of the stage actor Amedeo, Chiantoni debuted on stage entering several drama and revue comp ...

* Franco Gulà *

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* Julián Marcos

Plot

During a cattle drive Mike Jordan finds his father and brothers murdered and the herd stolen. He is met with suspicion by the local sheriff and population. Eventually, Mike is able to expose the rancher Barret as the perpetrator. He is assisted by Lisa, Barret's former sister-in-law, and Chris, a wanted horse thief.

Reception

In his investigation of narrative structures in

films, Fridlund discusses ''Stranger in Sacramento'' among films that mix some characters, motifs and plots well known from American traditional Westerns with others usual in Spaghetti Westerns. For example, Mike Jordan is close to the typical American Western hero, while Chris is more like Joe in

A Fistful of Dollars ''A Fistful of Dollars'' ( it, Per un pugno di dollari, lit=For a Fistful of Dollars titled on-screen as ''Fistful of Dollars'') is a 1964 Spaghetti Western film directed by Sergio Leone and starring Clint Eastwood in his first leading role, a ...

.Fridlund, Bert: ''The Spaghetti Western. A Thematic Analysis''. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company Inc., 2006 pp. 86-7.

References

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* 1965 films 1960s Italian-language films Italian Western (genre) films Spaghetti Western films 1965 Western (genre) films Films directed by Sergio Bergonzelli Films based on Western (genre) novels Films produced by Sergio Bergonzelli Films with screenplays by Sergio Bergonzelli 1960s Italian films {{1960s-Western-film-stub