The Sorenson family is massacred, apparently by Indians. On
the site of the killing, a town, Gold Hill grows up, run by a group of
businessmen. Years later, El Rojo, alias the last surviving Sorenson arrives,
bringing the truth about the massacre, and revenge.
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Director: Leopoldo Savona (as Leo Coleman)
Writers: Mario Casacci, Rate Furlan (screenplay)
Stars: Richard Harrison, Nieves Navarro, Piero Lulli
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I'll Sell My Skin Dearly (Italian: Vendo cara la pelle) is a
1968 Italian Spaghetti Western film directed by Ettore Maria
Storyline I'll Sell My Skin Dearly 1968
Shane is your standard spaghetti gunman, few of words, quick
on action. It served Mike Marshall well
as he didn’t seem to be that good an actor, making some godawful faces at
various times during the picture when some sort of emotion was required.
He’s a man come to home to settle something he’d
tried to forget, but kept eating at him. His family, mother,
father, and little sister, had been murdered for their land. Specifically an
old mine the father had been working for years with little result, but had
finally struck a vein. It’s not explained how, but a man named Ralph
Magdalena(Dane Savours) had found out and showed up to help him out . He wanted
the land for grazing he said and offers him a paltry five hundred for it, quick
claim in hand to be signed. Adding another two hundred, he says he’ll give him
a few minutes to talk it over with his wife, going outside, knowing all the
time the answer. he had half a dozen men hidden waiting, gunning him down when
he comes outside and the wife and daughter after him.
Young Shane had been away at the time and had stayed away
for a dozen years until it ate away at his insides and he’d come for revenge.
At times he seems mad, as when he buries the first one he
finds alive, other times he seems soft and gentle. Wounded in an ambush, he
drives the assailant off and digs the bullet out of his leg himself, tough guy,
with a dagger he keeps in a sheath up his left sleeve. Quite good with the
knife, he uses it several times to escape death.
He’s found by a young boy, Kristian, who gets him home to
his mother, the widow Georgiana
Bennett(Michele Giradon), who nurses him back to health. She
becomes the focal point from then as Magdalena’s lieutenant, Benson(Spartaco
Conversi) , has the hots for her and keeps trying, even to the point of killing
two off his men who dared go out there and mess with her, only to be soundly
whipped by shane and sent packing. The fact that widow Bennett makes it quite
clear she’s not interested, Benson keeps trying.
The final showdown happens in a monastery where Magdalena’s
brother, Domenique(Grant Laramy), is a priest. He was in on the raid twelve
years before, but had found God since and went into the priesthood. he’d spent
the years trying to make up for what he’d done.
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Director: Ettore Maria Fizzarotti
Writer: Giovanni Simonelli
Stars: Mike Marshall, Michèle Girardon, Valerio Bartoleschi
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Storyline Kill the Poker Player | Creeping Death 1972
KILL THE POKER PLAYER is the title of the American release
of this 1972 spaghetti western, a fairly innocuous one as spaghettis go. But
within the film credits, it had a title I thought much better: Creeping Death.
That comes from the killer’s use of poisonous snakes.
The movie opens with a bank robbery, one million dollars.
The stick-up man uses a six gun with a silencer attached (don’t explain them).
After relieving them of the cash, he shoots the president and two clerks. As
it’s a windy day, the little sound he makes with his silenced gun is covered. In
the saloon, a confederate decked out as a union officer is on hand. The bank
president,images not dead, staggers out with a gun. We learn there’s a third
man, unseen, who shoots the bank man. The Union officer guns down those in the
bar when they react and the two men beat it out of town.
Shortly they are joined by the third man while eating. The
camera angle, the big hat, and never showing him from the front, guarantee we
will not know the man. The first two man wake up later to find poisonous snakes
sitting on their chests.
That’s the mystery of this film. Who is the third man that
cold-blood murdered his partners?
Robert Wood rides into town and identifies himself as
Jonathan Pinkerton, an agent for Lloyd’s of London who’d insured the bank
money. It’s his job to find thaat third man and the money. a two hundred
thousand dollar reward is on the line.
A number of suspects are offered. The sheriff Lewis
Burton(Frank Braña), who Pinkerton witnesses shooting down an outlaw he’d
induced to surrender, Doctor Norton( Ernesto Colli), a zoologist who
specializes in snakes would seem the obvious suspect. Third on the list is a
saloon owner(Carlo Gaddi) and his girl friend(Nieves Navarro, billed as Susan
Scott), and a local rancher, Clinton( Ivano Staccioli ), who claims to be broke
from rustling, horse thievery, and bad poker playing.
Halfway through we learn Pinkerton is really Alan Fields, a
Federal agent brought in on the case.
Someone wants him off the case though as he’s constantly
challenged by groups of men. Forynately he’s handy with his fists and gun,
whatever’s needed.
Then the suspects start getting knocked off and Fields is
framed for them. But he keeps pushing until the third man reveals himself.
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Director: Mario Bianchi (as Frank Bronston)
Writers: Mario Bianchi (screenplay), Mario Bianchi (story)
Stars: Robert Woods, Frank Braña, Nieves Navarro
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