''Texas, Adios'' (
Italian
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** Italians, an ethnic group or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom
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*** Regional Ita ...
: ''Texas, addio'') is a 1966 Italian/Spanish
international co-production
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Spaghetti Western film directed by
Ferdinando Baldi
Ferdinando Baldi (19 May 1917 – 12 September 2007) was an Italian film director and screenwriter.
Biography
Baldi was born in Cava de' Tirreni, Salerno, on 19 May 1917. His early film work began in Italy in the early 1950s with films s ...
and starring
Franco Nero
Francesco Clemente Giuseppe Sparanero (born 23 November 1941), known professionally as Franco Nero, is an Italian actor, producer, and director. His breakthrough role was as the title character in the Spaghetti Western film '' Django'' (1966), ...
. It is often referenced in connection with ''
Django'', also starring Nero, and although was referred to as ''Django 2'' in some countries, it is not considered a sequel. The film is mostly remembered as a lesser known
Spaghetti Western.
Plot
Although technically a Spaghetti Western, the plot of ''Texas, Adios'' plays more like a traditional American
western
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Places
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film. Franco Nero plays two-fisted, taciturn
Texas
Texas (, ; Spanish: ''Texas'', ''Tejas'') is a state in the South Central region of the United States. At 268,596 square miles (695,662 km2), and with more than 29.1 million residents in 2020, it is the second-largest U.S. state by ...
sheriff Burt Sullivan, a man committed to duty and justice but possessed by a desire for revenge. Sullivan, along with his younger brother, crosses the border to bring wealthy and sadistic
Mexican crime boss Cisco Delgado (
José Suárez) to justice for the murder of their father. Eventually joining forces with a group of Mexican revolutionaries, Sullivan and his brother soon find themselves at the centre of a bloodbath.
Cast
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Franco Nero
Francesco Clemente Giuseppe Sparanero (born 23 November 1941), known professionally as Franco Nero, is an Italian actor, producer, and director. His breakthrough role was as the title character in the Spaghetti Western film '' Django'' (1966), ...
as
Sheriff Burt Sullivan
*
Alberto Dell'Acqua
Alberto Dell'Acqua (born 14 March 1938) is an Italian actor and stuntman. He appeared in more than forty films since 1955 mostly Italian Spaghetti Western
The Spaghetti Western is a broad subgenre of Western films produced in Europe. It emerg ...
(as Cole Kitosch) as Jim Sullivan
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José Suárez (as José Suarez) as Cisco Delgado
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Elisa Montés (as Elisa Montes) as Dancing Mulatta
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José Guardiola
José Guardiola Díaz de Rada, (22 October 1930 – 9 April 2012) was a Spanish singer of popular music who sang in Spanish and Catalan.
Guardiola was born in Barcelona. He performed and recorded mostly Spanish versions of foreign songs and re ...
as McLeod
*
Livio Lorenzon
Livio Lorenzon (6 May 1923 – 23 December 1971) was an Italian actor who was mainly active during the 1950s and 1960s.
Biography
He played minor roles in some memorable commedia all'Italiana movies directed by the likes of Dino Risi and ...
as Alcalde Miguel, the Mayor
* Hugo Blanco as Pedro
*
Luigi Pistilli
Luigi Pistilli (19 July 192921 April 1996) was an Italian actor of stage, screen, and television.
At one time Pistilli was one of Italy's most respected actors of stage, screen, and television. In theater, he was considered one of the country's ...
as Hernandez, the Lawyer
* Antonella Murgia as Burt's Mother in Flashback
*
Gino Pernice
Gino Pernice (6 May 1927 – 25 April 1997) was an Italian stage, television and film actor.
Life and career
Born in Milan, Pernice trained at the Accademia dei Filodrammatici graduating in 1952, and made his professional debut with the stage ...
as Bank Employee
* Giovanni Ivan Scratuglia (as Ivan Scratuglia) as Dick, Burt's
Deputy
* Silvana Bacci as Paquita, the Barmaid
*
Remo De Angelis
Remo De Angelis (30 July 1926 - 9 October 2014) was an Italian film actor, stunt man and painter.
He appeared in ''Nel Segno di Roma'' (1959), by Guido Brignone, and he played Prometheus in '' Maciste all'inferno'' (1962), by Riccardo Freda. He wa ...
as Juan, Delgado Henchman
*
Mario Novelli
Mario Novelli (26 February 1940 – 21 August 2016) was an Italian actor. He appeared in more than sixty films from 1962. He died on 21 August 2016.
Filmography
References
External links
*
1940 births
Italian male film actors
...
as Bounty Hunter
* Enrico Chiappafreddo as Outlaw
*
Lucio De Santis
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Filmography
References
External links
*
1922 ...
as McLeod Henchman
Production
''Texas, Adios'', like many Spaghetti Westerns, was shot in the Spanish province
Almería
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. Franco Nero, in his comments on the
Anchor Bay DVD
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, mentions that the ''Texas, Adios'' shoot took place not far from where
Sergio Leone was filming ''
The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
''The Good, the Bad and the Ugly'' ( it, Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo, literally "The good, the ugly, the bad") is a 1966 Italian epic spaghetti Western film directed by Sergio Leone and starring Clint Eastwood as "the Good", Lee Van Clee ...
'' at the same time. Nero and
Clint Eastwood spent time between shots socializing. There are two actor who appeared in both films, who are
Livio Lorenzon
Livio Lorenzon (6 May 1923 – 23 December 1971) was an Italian actor who was mainly active during the 1950s and 1960s.
Biography
He played minor roles in some memorable commedia all'Italiana movies directed by the likes of Dino Risi and ...
, and
Luigi Pistilli
Luigi Pistilli (19 July 192921 April 1996) was an Italian actor of stage, screen, and television.
At one time Pistilli was one of Italy's most respected actors of stage, screen, and television. In theater, he was considered one of the country's ...
.
Release
''Texas, Adios'' was released in August 1966.
References
External links
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Westernfilm
1966 films
1966 Western (genre) films
Spaghetti Western films
Films directed by Ferdinando Baldi
Films shot in Almería
Films scored by Antón García Abril
1960s Italian-language films
1960s Italian films
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