Four of the Apocalypse

Apocalypse

An Apocalypse is a disclosure of something hidden from the majority of mankind in an era dominated by falsehood and misconception, i.e. the veil to be lifted. The Apocalypse of John is the Book of Revelation, the last book of the New Testament...

(I Quattro dell'apocalisse) is a 1975

1975 in film

The year 1975 in film involved some significant events, with Steven Spielberg's thriller Jaws topping the box office.-Events:*March 26 - The film version of The Who's Tommy premieres in London....

 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 Lucio Fulci

Lucio Fulci

Lucio Fulci was an Italian film director, screenwriter, and actor. He is perhaps best known for his directorial work on gore films, including Zombie and The Beyond , although he made films in genres as diverse as giallo, western, and comedy...

 and starring Fabio Testi

Fabio Testi

Fabio Testi is an Italian film actor, notable as the star of, among many other films, First Action Hero.Born in Peschiera del Garda, Italy, the 1.84m tall actor started his film career as a stuntman in his college years...

. It is based on two stories by western

Western (genre)

The Western is a genre of various visual arts, such as film, television, radio, literature, painting and others. Westerns are devoted to telling stories set primarily in the latter half of the 19th century in the American Old West, hence the name. Some Westerns are set as early as the Battle of...

 writer Bret Harte

Bret Harte

Francis Bret Harte was an American author and poet, best remembered for his accounts of pioneering life in California.- Life and career :...

, "The Luck of Roaring Camp

The Luck of Roaring Camp

"The Luck of Roaring Camp" is a short story by American author Bret Harte. It was first published in the August 1868 issue of the Overland Monthly and helped push Harte to international prominence....

" and "The Outcasts of Poker Flat

The Outcasts of Poker Flat

"The Outcasts of Poker Flat" is a short story written by renowned author of the American West Bret Harte. This story is a good example of regionalism and local color during the Gilded Generation. His compelling combination of realism and sentimentality offers readers real and known characters, yet...

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Plot

The sole survivors from a vigilante attack on a wild west town, gambler

Gambling

Gambling is the wagering of money or something of material value on an event with an uncertain outcome with the primary intent of winning additional money and/or material goods...

 Stubby Preston, pregnant

Pregnancy

Pregnancy refers to the fertilization and development of one or more offspring, known as a fetus or embryo, in a woman's uterus. In a pregnancy, there can be multiple gestations, as in the case of twins or triplets...

 prostitute

Prostitution

Prostitution is the act or practice of providing sexual services to another person in return for payment. The person who receives payment for sexual services is called a prostitute and the person who receives such services is known by a multitude of terms, including a "john". Prostitution is one of...

 Bunny, alcoholic

Alcoholism

Alcoholism is a broad term for problems with alcohol, and is generally used to mean compulsive and uncontrolled consumption of alcoholic beverages, usually to the detriment of the drinker's health, personal relationships, and social standing...

 Clem and Bud, who sees ghost

Ghost

In traditional belief and fiction, a ghost is the soul or spirit of a deceased person or animal that can appear, in visible form or other manifestation, to the living. Descriptions of the apparition of ghosts vary widely from an invisible presence to translucent or barely visible wispy shapes, to...

s, strike out for the next town. On the trail, the four draw the attention of Chaco, a bandit gunman. At first, Chaco is cautiously accepted into the travelling party, but then he poisons the group with hallucinogens and leaves them to die. The survivors then find a mining town, where Bunny goes into labor

Childbirth

Childbirth is the culmination of a human pregnancy or gestation period with the birth of one or more newborn infants from a woman's uterus...

. After tragedy befalls Bunny, Stubby seeks his revenge

Revenge

Revenge is a harmful action against a person or group in response to a grievance, be it real or perceived. It is also called payback, retribution, retaliation or vengeance; it may be characterized, justly or unjustly, as a form of justice.-Function in society:Some societies believe that the...

 against Chaco.

Cast

• Fabio Testi
  Fabio Testi
  Fabio Testi is an Italian film actor, notable as the star of, among many other films, First Action Hero.Born in Peschiera del Garda, Italy, the 1.84m tall actor started his film career as a stuntman in his college years...
  
   - Stubby Preston
• Lynne Frederick
  Lynne Frederick
  Lynne Maria Frederick was an English film actress. In a career spanning ten years she made about thirty films or television drama appearances, but she is best remembered as the last wife of Peter Sellers. She was married twice after his death.-Early life:Frederick was born in Hillingdon,...
  
   - Emanuelle 'Bunny' O'Neill
• Michael J. Pollard
  Michael J. Pollard
  - Early life :Born Michael John Pollack, Jr. in Passaic, New Jersey, he is the son of Sonia and Michael John Pollack. He attended the Montclair Academy and the Actors Studio.- Career :...
  
   - Clem
• Harry Baird
  Harry Baird (actor)
  Harry Baird was a Guyana-born British actor who came to prominence in the 1960s.Baird was born in Georgetown, British Guiana and was educated in Canada and England. He was given his film break in 1954 as a boxer named Jamaica in the Carol Reed film A Kid for Two Farthings...
  
   as Butt/Buck/Bud Wilson
• Tomas Milian
  Tomas Milian
  Tomás Milián is a Cuban-American actor best known for having worked extensively in Italian films from the late 1950s to the 1980s.-Career in Italy:...
  
   - Chaco
• Donal O'Brien
  Donald O'Brien (actor)
  Donal "Donald" O'Brien was a French-born Italian film and television actor of Irish descent. In his near 40-year career, O'Brien appeared in dozens of stage performances and in more than 60 film and television productions.O'Brien was born in Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, raised in both Northern...
  
   - Sheriff of Salt Flat
• Adolfo Lastretti - Reverend Sullivan
• Bruno Corazzari - Lemmy
• Giorgio Trestini - doctor
• Charles Borromel - Montana
• Salvatore Puntillo - recovering man
• Lone Ferk - Mormon girl
• Lorenzo Robledo
  Lorenzo Robledo
  Lorenzo Robledo was a Spanish film actor, who made over 85 appearances in film between 1956 and 1982. He is a familiar face in Italian westerns appearing in a total of 32 Spaghetti Western films throughout the 1960s and early 1970s.Robledo is probably best known in world cinema for his roles in...
  
   - tortured sheriff
• Edward Mannix - narrator
• Claudio Ruffini - gunman
• Goffredo Unger - gambler
• Alfonso Rojas

Soundtrack

This Soundtrack was written by Fabio Bixio, Fabio Frizzi

Fabio Frizzi

Fabio Frizzi is an Italian musician and composer.Born in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, he is best known for his film scores. A frequent collaborator with famous horror director Lucio Fulci, his scores have become some of the most widely known in the genre.-Partial filmography:*Zombi 2 *Contraband *City...

 and Vince Tempera.

1. Movin' On (03:39)
2. Death's Song (02:35)
3. Serene Moments (02:59)
4. Bunny (Let's Stay Together) (03:54)
5. Farewell To The Friends (02:12)
6. On The Traces Of Chaco (01:26)
7. Slow Violence (02:11)
8. Was It All In The Vain (02:33)
9. The Swindler Of The Saloon (02:54)
10. Let Us Pray (02:56)
11. Chaco (01:51)
12. Stubby (You're Down And Out) (03:12)
13. Bunny Love Song (01:21)
14. Reawaken From The Trip (01:32)
15. I Quattro Dell Apocalise (Outtakes Suite) (21:47)

Differences from short stories

Testi's character, Stubby, is the "John Oakhurst" character from "Poker Flats". Lynne Frederick's "Bunny" is named "Duchess" in the original story. The outlaw Chaco is an additional one for the film, and the action in the film is considerably more violent than in the stories.