''Adiós, Sabata'' (, lit. "Indio Black, you know what I'm going to tell you... You're a big son of a...") is a 1970 Italian
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 filmmaking style and international box-office success. The term was used by foreign critics because most o ...
film, directed by
Gianfranco Parolini
Gianfranco Parolini (20 February 1925 in Rome, Italy – 26 April 2018 in Rome, Italy) was an Italian people, Italian film director. He is often credited as Frank Kramer. Among his films are ''The Sabata Trilogy'', several sword and sandal films, m ...
. It is the second film in ''
The Sabata Trilogy'' by Parolini.
Yul Brynner
Yuliy Borisovich Briner (; July 11, 1920 – October 10, 1985), known professionally as Yul Brynner (), was a Russian-born actor. He was known for his portrayal of King Mongkut in the Rodgers and Hammerstein stage musical ''The King and I'' (19 ...
takes over the lead role from
Lee Van Cleef
Clarence LeRoy Van Cleef Jr. (January 9, 1925 – December 16, 1989) was an American actor. He appeared in over 170 film and television roles in a career spanning nearly 40 years, but is best known as a star of spaghetti Westerns, particularly t ...
, who stars in the first and third films.
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Plot
Set in
Mexico
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under the rule of Emperor
Maximilian I, Sabata is hired by the
guerrilla
Guerrilla warfare is a form of unconventional warfare in which small groups of irregular military, such as rebels, Partisan (military), partisans, paramilitary personnel or armed civilians, which may include Children in the military, recruite ...
leader Señor Ocaño to steal a wagonload of gold from the
Austrian army. However, when Sabata and his partners, Escudo and Ballantine, obtain the wagon, they find it is not full of gold but of sand, and that the gold was taken by Austrian Colonel Skimmel. So, Sabata plans to steal back the gold.
Cast
Release
''Adiós, Sabata'' was first released in 1970.
Reception
Tom Milne
Tom Milne (2 April 1926 – 14 December 2005) was a British film critic. See also
After war service, he studied English and French at Aberdeen University and later at the Sorbonne. Interested in the theatre too, he wrote for the magazine ...
of the ''
Monthly Film Bulletin
The ''Monthly Film Bulletin'' was a periodical of the British Film Institute published monthly from February 1934 until April 1991, when it merged with '' Sight & Sound''. It reviewed all films on release in the United Kingdom, including those wi ...
'' reviewed a dubbed version of the film in 1973.
Milne found that "the rather routine proceedings are enlivened from time to time by ingeniously macabre details like the model ship firing from all guns with which Skimmel executes informers, or the "flamenco of death" (spurs glittering ominously on drumming heels) with which Gitano announced the end of enemies of the revolution."
Milne commented on "it is a pity that so much of the action is clogged up by that old stand-by of the Italian Western-extras falling off roofs in graceful death-falls. This time the supply of cannon-fodder destined for identical deaths is apparently inexhaustible."
See also
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List of Italian films of 1970
A list of films produced in Italy in 1970 (see 1970 in film):
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Sabata films
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Spaghetti Western films
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1970 Western (genre) films
1970 films
Films produced by Alberto Grimaldi
Films shot in Almería
Films scored by Bruno Nicolai
1970s Italian films