Renegade Riders
1967 film
- Tito Carpi
- Enzo G. Castellari[1]
Ennio Girolami
Luisa Baratto
Piero Vida
Guy Madison
Production
companies
companies
- Circus Film
- Fono Roma
- St. Regis Film International[1]
Release date
- 1967 (1967)
Payment in Blood (Italian: Sette winchester per un massacro, lit. 'Seven Winchesters for a Massacre') is a 1967 Italian Spaghetti Western film. It represents the official film debut for director Enzo G. Castellari of Few Dollars for Django.[3] The film stars Edd Byrnes and Guy Madison.
Plot
Following the American Civil War a bunch of deserter Confederate soldiers dwell in Mexico and make a living on terrorising the villages around. Bounty hunter Stuart and his assistant Manuela put a crackdown on these misdeeds.
Cast
- Edd Byrnes as Stuart
- Guy Madison as Colonel Thomas Blake
- Ennio Girolami as Chamaco Gonzales
- Luisa Baratto as Manuela
- Federico Boido as Fred
Production
Payment in Blood was described by Italian film historian Roberto Curti as Castellari's "official" debut, as it was the first time the director was credited as a director after going uncredited on films such as Some Dollars for Django and A Ghentar si muore facile.[4] The film was shot in Spain with Castellari intentionally trying to duplicate the style of a film that made an impression on him, Sidney J. Furie's The Appaloosa.[4]
Releases
Payment in Blood passed the Italian censors on 29 March 1967.[1] It was first released in 1967.[5]
Reception
In contemporary reviews, "Murf." of Variety described Payment in Blood as "a gamy slapdash and overly violent Civil War oater drama, made by crude Italian film hands and probably exported in hopes that names of Edd Byrnes and Guy Madison might have the b.o prospects."[2]
References
Notes
- ^ a b c d e f g h "7 Winchester per un massacro (1967)". Archiviodelcinemaitaliano.it (in Italian). Retrieved May 9, 2019.
- ^ a b Variety's Film Reviews 1968-1970. Vol. 12. R. R. Bowker. 1983. There are no page numbers in this book. This entry is found under the header "December 11, 1968". ISBN 0-8352-2792-8.
- ^ Marco Giusti (2007). Dizionario del western all'italiana. Mondadori, 2007. ISBN 978-88-04-57277-0.
- ^ a b Curti 2013, p. 290.
- ^ Grant 2011, p. 443-447.
Bibliography
- Curti, Roberto (2013). Italian Crime Filmography, 1968-1980. McFarland. ISBN 978-0786469765.
- Grant, Kevin (2011). Any Gun Can Play. Fab Press. ISBN 9781903254615.
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Films directed by Enzo G. Castellari
- A Few Dollars for Django (1966)
- Renegade Riders (1967)
- Any Gun Can Play (1967)
- Johnny Hamlet (1968)
- One Dollar Too Many (1968)
- Kill Them All and Come Back Alone (1968)
- Eagles Over London (1969)
- Cold Eyes of Fear (1971)
- Hector the Mighty (1972)
- Sting of the West (1973)
- High Crime (1973)
- Street Law (1974)
- Cry, Onion! (1975)
- The Loves and Times of Scaramouche (1976)
- The Big Racket (1976)
- Keoma (1976)
- The Heroin Busters (1977)
- The Inglorious Bastards (1978)
- The House by the Edge of the Lake (1979)
- The Shark Hunter (1979)
- Day of the Cobra (1980)
- Great White (1980)
- 1990: The Bronx Warriors (1982)
- The New Barbarians (1983)
- Escape from the Bronx (1983)
- Tuareg: The Desert Warrior (1984)
- Light Blast (1985)
- Striker (1987)
- Hammerhead (1987)
- Sinbad of the Seven Seas (1989)
- Jonathan of the Bears (1995)
- The Return of Sandokan (1996)
- Desert of Fire (1997)
- Gioco a incastro (2000)
- Caribbean Basterds (2010)
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