''Red Blood, Yellow Gold'' (, , also known as ''Professionals for a Massacre''), is a 1967

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film directed by

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Cast

* George Hilton: Steel Downey *

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: Chattanooga Jim *

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: Fidel Ramirez *

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: Lieutenant Logan *

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: Annie *

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: Major Lloyd *

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: Pietro Primero *

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: Luisa * Carlo Gentili: General Sibley

Plot

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Major Lloyd and some accomplices

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with a

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and a shipment of gold. General Sibley sends Lt. Tennessee Logan, together with three Confederate soldiers about to be executed for theft – horse-thief Ramirez, defrocked priest and dynamite expert Steel Downey, and bank robber Chattanooga Jim. They set up an ambush for Lloyd, but the three others ditch Logan and go for the gold, only to find it snatched by the Mexican Camiseros gang. They ally with Lloyd against the Camiseros and then blow up Lloyd and his men, only to be intercepted by a Union

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led by Logan, who is a Union spy. The heroes manage to exterminate the Union men but are stopped by a Confederate troop led by General Sibley, who had suspected Logan but needed proof. The three are given horses and warned not to show themselves in these parts. When Sibley later hands over the gold to the Mexican army in exchange for weapons the three companions, now dressed in ponchos, suddenly drive off with the wagon, pursued by the Mexicans.

Reception

In his investigation of narrative structures in

films, Fridlund compares ''Red Blood, Yellow Gold'' to other stories of multiple betrayals between protagonists for monetary reasons, inspired by

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly ''The Good, the Bad and the Ugly'' (, 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 Cleef as "the Bad", and Eli Wallach a ...

, the main difference being that in this case the "hero" trio sticks together.Fridlund, Bert: ''The Spaghetti Western. A Thematic Analysis''. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company Inc., 2006 pp. 213,227.

Releases

Wild East released this alongside Payment in Blood in an out-of-print limited edition R0 NTSC DVD in 2008.

References

External links

* 1967 films 1967 Western (genre) films Films directed by Nando Cicero Spaghetti Western films American Civil War films Films shot in Almería 1960s Italian-language films 1960s American films 1960s Italian films {{1960s-western-film-stub