''The Price of Death'' ( it, Il venditore di morte) is a 1971 Italian
Western film
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directed by
Lorenzo Gicca Palli
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and starring
Klaus Kinski
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and
Gianni Garko
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.
Some DVD releases feature the title ''Der Galgen wartet schon, Amigo!''.
Plot
Silver, who is elegantly dressed and lives in a hacienda with beautiful senoritas, is hired to find out if the accused Chester Conway, the black sheep of the town, really is guilty of the murder charge that he is to hang for. By investigating clues and arranging a trap, Silver discloses some respected citizens as the guilty parties. However, when Conway is released Silver shows that he had raped and killed a Mexican girl while the murder he was charged with took place, and he kills Conway in a duel.
Cast
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Gianni Garko
Gianni Garko (born Giovanni Garcovich; 15 July 1935), often billed as John Garko and occasionally Gary Hudson, is an Italian actor who found fame as a leading man in 1960s Spaghetti Westerns. He is perhaps best known for his lead role as Sartana, ...
as Silver
*
Klaus Kinski
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as Chester Conway
*
Gely Genka as Polly
*
Franco Abbiana as Jeff Plummer
*
Luciano Catenacci
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as Sheriff Tom Stanton
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Laura Gianoli
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as Polly's sister
*
Giancarlo Prete
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as Reverend Adam Tiller
*
Luigi Casellato
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as Abacuc Randall
*
Luciano Pigozzi
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as Doctor Rosenthal
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Franca De Stratis
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as Carmen
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Andrea Scotti
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Born in Naples, Scotti attended at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome, graduating in 1956. During his career he was mainly active in genre f ...
as the prosecutor's lawyer
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Alfredo Rizzo
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Life and career
Born in Nice, France into a family of actors, Rizzo started his career as an actor of avanspettacolo and revue, often alongs ...
as Judge Atwell
*
Giuseppe Castellano
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Military career
Of Sicilian descent ...
as Grant
Reception
In his investigation of narrative structures in
Spaghetti Western
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films, Fridlund ranges ''The Price of Death'' among Spaghetti Westerns heavily influenced by secret-agent films, because the hero is shown in company with beautiful women and in luxurious surroundings, works to uncover a mystery and - unlike the protagonists in
A Fistful of Dollars
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and
Django - does not have any complicating secondary motive.
[Fridlund, Bert: ''The Spaghetti Western. A Thematic Analysis''. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company Inc., 2006 p. 258]
Release
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announced they would be releasing "The Price of Death" on DVD in a double feature with ''
Killer Caliber 32''. The release was canceled due to rights issues. ''Killer Caliber 32'' is now scheduled to be released in a double feature with ''
Killer Adios'' instead.
[Wild East Websit]
2008. Last accessed: October 2009.
References
External links
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1971 films
1971 Western (genre) films
1970s Italian-language films
Spaghetti Western films
1970s Italian films