Monday, August 2, 2010

DEATH WALKS IN LAREDO

Tre ragazzi d’oro – Italian title
Tre pistole per un massacro – Italian title
Tre pistole contro Cesare – Spanish title
Trois pistolets contre César – French title
Drei Pistolen gegen Cesare – German title
Döden vandrar i Laredo – Swedish title
The Pistol, the Karate and the Eye – English title
Three Golden Boys – English title
Death Walks in Laredo – English title

A 1966 Italian, Algerian co-production [Dine DeLaurentis Cinematografica (Rome), Casbah Films (Algiers)]
Producer: Carmine Bologna, Yacef Saadi
Director: Enzo Peri
Story: Carmine Bologna
Screenplay: Dean Craig (Piero Regnoli), Enzo Peri
Cinematography: Otello Martelli [Technicolor, Techniscope]
Music: Marcello Giombini
Song: “Laredo” sung by Don Powell
Running time: 87 minutes

Cast:
Whitaker ‘Whitey” Selby - Thomas Hunter
Lester Koto - James Shigeta
Etienne Devereaux - Nadir Moretti
Mady - Delia Boccardo (Gabriella Boccardo)
Julius Cesar Fuller - Enrico Maria Salerno
Debbie - Gianna Serra
Tula - Femi Benussi (Eufemia Benussi)
Bronson - Umberto D’Orsi
Stanford - Vittorio Bonos
professor - Ferruccio De Ceresa
Fuller’s servant - José Galera Balazote
gunman - Nick Roman (Nicola di Gioia)
with; Adriana Ambesi, Gino Bardi, Luigi Cresenzi (Gian Luigi Cresenzi)


Three men each receive notice of an inheritance to a gold mine. The three men discover that they are half-brothers all with the same father, but three different mothers.They decide to travel together to the mine wich is located in Laredo, but are deterred by Julius Cesar Fuller, a powerful dictator, who controls the entire territory from his castle. The insane tyrant believes he is Julius Caesar, wearing tunics and robes and executes his enemies in a coliseum. He believes the gold mine is his, and sends a hit squad of female assassins to kill the brothers. The brothers all have powerful gimmicks to fight off the assassins: Selby is good with guns and fists, Koto is a martial arts expert and Devereaux uses his mind to control men's actions.

1 comment:

  1. What's weird about the film is not only does Thomas Hunter's character, Selby, have a four-barreled pistol but he can also fire his sixguns from the grips. Now that's odd.

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