Blood for a Silver Dollar
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Un dollaro bucato is a 1965
Italo-
French
Spaghetti Western
film, directed by Giorgio Ferroni. Its stars Giuliano Gemma
. On release in the United States, nearly all of the cast members and production team had their names changed for the English audience. In France the film is known as Le Dollar troué. Gemma was billed as Montgomery Wood as with many of his others. The title song had a successful cover version
by Nini Rosso
. The original title music, composed by Gianni Ferrio, was used in Quentin Tarantino
's Inglourious Basterds soundtrack. Some of Ferrio's remaining themes are also featured in the videogame Red Dead Revolver
.
Giuliano Gemma plays a Confederate soldier who returns from the war to fight one at home. Prior to his release from the Prisoner of War camp his pistol has its barrel sawn off.
He is informed of a new gangster in town named "Black Jack" who has wreaked havoc in the community. Gemma agrees to kill the man, only to discover too late that the outlaw is actually his brother, which his employers had known all along. With vengeance he turns on his employers, who then shoot him.
Italian films of 1965
A list of films produced in Italy in 1965 :-External links:* at the Internet Movie Database...
Italo-
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
French
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
Spaghetti Western
Spaghetti Western
Spaghetti Western, also known as Italo-Western, is a nickname for a broad sub-genre of Western films that emerged in the mid-1960s in the wake of Sergio Leone's unique and much copied film-making style and international box-office success, so named by American critics because most were produced and...
film, directed by Giorgio Ferroni. Its stars Giuliano Gemma
Giuliano Gemma
-Biography:Born in Rome, Gemma first worked as a stuntman, then was offered real acting parts by director Duccio Tessari, starting with the film Arrivano i titani . He also made an appearance in Luchino Visconti's Il Gattopardo as Garibaldi's General...
. On release in the United States, nearly all of the cast members and production team had their names changed for the English audience. In France the film is known as Le Dollar troué. Gemma was billed as Montgomery Wood as with many of his others. The title song had a successful cover version
Cover version
In popular music, a cover version or cover song, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording of a contemporary or previously recorded, commercially released song or popular song...
by Nini Rosso
Nini Rosso
Raffaele Celeste "Nini" Rosso was an Italian jazz trumpeter and composer.-Biography:Born in Turin, Rosso's parents had attempted to send him to university, but at 19 he chose the trumpet over academia, and left home...
. The original title music, composed by Gianni Ferrio, was used in Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Jerome Tarantino is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and actor. In the early 1990s, he began his career as an independent filmmaker with films employing nonlinear storylines and the aestheticization of violence...
's Inglourious Basterds soundtrack. Some of Ferrio's remaining themes are also featured in the videogame Red Dead Revolver
Red Dead Revolver
Red Dead Revolver is a western third-person shooter video game published by Rockstar Games and developed by Rockstar San Diego. It was released in North America on May 4, 2004, for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox....
.
Story
He is informed of a new gangster in town named "Black Jack" who has wreaked havoc in the community. Gemma agrees to kill the man, only to discover too late that the outlaw is actually his brother, which his employers had known all along. With vengeance he turns on his employers, who then shoot him.
Cast
- Giuliano GemmaGiuliano Gemma-Biography:Born in Rome, Gemma first worked as a stuntman, then was offered real acting parts by director Duccio Tessari, starting with the film Arrivano i titani . He also made an appearance in Luchino Visconti's Il Gattopardo as Garibaldi's General...
as Montgomery Wood - Gary O'Hara - Ida GalliIda GalliIda Galli is an Italian film actress best known for her roles in Spaghetti Western films in the 1960s and 1970s.She has made over 60 film appearances since 1960. She starred in films such as Adios Gringo , Blood For A Silver Dollar often billed as Evelyn Stewart alongside Giuliano Gemma .-...
as Evelyn Stewart - Judy O'Hara - Pierre Cressoy as Peter Cross - McCory/ Max Cory/McCoy/Aloysius MacKenzie
- Giuseppe AddobbatiGiuseppe AddobbatiGiuseppe Addobbati was an Italian film actor known for his roles in Spaghetti Western and action films in the 1960s and 1970s. He was often billed as John MacDouglas for films released to an American audience....
... Donaldson (as John Mac Douglas) - Franco Fantasia ... Sheriff Anderson (as Frank Farrel)
- Tullio AltamuraTullio AltamuraTullio Altamura was an Italian film actor best known for his roles in Spaghetti Western and action films in the 1960s.He made 65 film appearances between 1957 and 1973. He starred in films such as Blood For A Silver Dollar alongside Giuliano Gemma .- External links :...
as Tor Altmayer - Peter - Massimo Righi as Max Dean - Brad
- Francisco Fantasia as Frank Farrel - Sheriff George Anderson
- Andrea Scotti as Andrew Scott - Slim
- Nazzareno Zamperla as Nicholas Saint John - Phil O'Hara
- Giuseppe AddobbatiGiuseppe AddobbatiGiuseppe Addobbati was an Italian film actor known for his roles in Spaghetti Western and action films in the 1960s and 1970s. He was often billed as John MacDouglas for films released to an American audience....
as John MacDouglas - Donaldson - Alfredo Rizzo - Buddy
- Benito StefanelliBenito StefanelliBenito Stefanelli was an Italian film actor and stuntman who made over 60 appearances in film between 1955 and 1991....
as Benny Reeves - Jim - Giovanni Pazzafini as Nello Pazzafini - henchman
- Sal BorgeseSal BorgeseSal Borgese, sometimes credited as Salvatore Borghese, is a film actor. He is noted for extensive work in the Italian film industry from the 1960s to present day, and for his work as a stuntman and acrobat....
- henchman - Ignazio Spalla as Pedro Sanchez - henchman
- Moises Rocha as Jack Rocha - henchman
- Franco Lantieri as Frank Liston
- Gino Marturano as John Martin
- Bernard Faber as Benny Farber
- Luigi Tosi
- Pietro Ceccarelli
- Bruno Arie
- Fortunato Arena
- Giulio Maculani
- Osiride Pevarello