''The Ugly Ones'' (
es: ''El precio de un hombre'', lit. "The Price of a Man",
it: ''The Bounty Killer'', later ''La morte ti segue... ma non ha fretta'', lit. "Death follows you... but not in a hurry") is a
1966
Events January
* January 1 – In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa takes over as military ruler of the Central African Republic, ousting President David Dacko.
* January 3 – 1966 Upper Voltan coup d'état: President Maurice Yaméogo i ...
Spanish
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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
Eugenio Martín
Eugenio Martín (born 15 May 1925) is a Spanish film director and screenwriter. He is known for the low-budget genre films he made in the 1960s and 1970s, including ''Bad Man's River'', ''The Bounty Killer'', and ''Horror Express'', the latter be ...
.
The film marked the debut of
Tomás Milián
Tomas Milian (born Tomás Quintín Rodríguez-Varona Milián Salinas de la Fé y Álvarez de la Campa; 3 March 1933 – 22 March 2017) was a Cuban-born actor and singer with American and Italian citizenship, known for the emotional intensity an ...
in the western genre
and was the first film score of composer
Stelvio Cipriani
Stelvio Cipriani (20 August 1937 – 1 October 2018), also known as Viostel, was an Italian composer, mostly of motion picture soundtracks.
Biography
Though not raised with a strong musical upbringing, as a child Cipriani was fascinated by his ...
. It was also the first Spanish western to receive a state funding for the "artistic interest of the work".
[ The film was based on the 1958 novel ''The Bounty Killer'' by ]Marvin H. Albert
Marvin H. Albert (January 22, 1924 – March 25, 1996) was an American writer of mystery, crime and adventure novels including ones featuring Pete (Pierre-Ange rench: Stone Angel Sawyer, a French-American private investigator living and wo ...
.
It was shown as part of a retrospective on Spaghetti Western at the 64th Venice International Film Festival. On October 11, 2017 Eugenio Martín was honored for the fiftieth anniversary of this at the 7º Almería Western Film Festival.
Plot
The notorious bounty hunter, Luke Chilson, pursues Mexican fugitive Jose Gomez. He follows him through the desert and arrives in a Mexican village where Gomez manages to turn the peasants against his pursuer. Unaware of the danger, Chilson finds himself trapped.
Cast
References
External links
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1966 films
1966 Western (genre) films
Spaghetti Western films
Spanish Western (genre) films
Films shot in Almería
Films scored by Stelvio Cipriani
Films based on Western (genre) novels
United Artists films
1960s Italian films