Minnesota Clay
- Cameron Mitchell: Minnesota Clay
- Georges Rivière: Sheriff Fox
- Fernando Sancho: Dominique Ortiz Mendoza
- Ethel Rojo: Estella
- Diana Martín: Nancy Mulligan
- Antonio Rossi: The Silent (as Anthony Ross)
- Antonio Casas: Uncle Jonathan
- Gino Pernice: Scratchy
- Ferdinando Poggi: Tubbs
- Julio Peña: Doctor Lieutenant Stevens
- Antonio Cevenini: Andy Barr
Minnesota Clay ( including the title) is an early spaghetti westerns of Sergio Corbucci from the year 1964.
Action
The aging and semi- blind gunslinger Minnesota Clay can escape from a prison camp, where he was imprisoned unjustly. Looking for the person who brought him innocent behind bars, Clay in the crossfire between two criminal gangs, fight for the supremacy in Clays home town of Mesa Encantada, New Mexico: one is led by the corrupt Sheriff Fox, which is another of Mexicans under the leadership of Ortiz. Use of Ortiz's beloved Estella and his old pal Jonathan succeeds Clay to play the gangs against each other. He can prevail in spite of his handicap and defeat in the final duel Fox.
Background
After Not a cent for Ringo's head was Minnesota Clay Corbuccis second Western, but the first, which included distinctive, later genre motifs typical spaghetti Westerns. The figure of Minnesota Clay reminiscent in many ways of the protagonists in Corbuccis later genre classics Django and corpses pave his way. The plot of the film also has a strong resemblance to the almost simultaneously produced for A Fistful of Dollars by Sergio Leone, but was not nearly as successful.
There are two ends of the film; in a Clay dies in the arms of his daughter, in the alternative, he rides off, wearing a pair of glasses which he was soon thrown into the air and their glasses he zerschießt smiling.
Reviews
" An action-packed spaghetti western, with the director Corbucci, who had come from the antique film, debuted in the genre. "
Joe Hembus compares with the written in the same year for a handful of dollars: to "Unlike Leones Dollar Hero Minnesota Clay is a besiegbarer hero, broken from the start. [ ... ] Propagated Corbucci equal to the self-consciousness of the Italo - Westerns. "
Ulrich P. Bruckner saw the movie, however, " still influenced by the Western U.S. "