Sabata (Film)
- Lee van Cleef: Sabata
- William Berger: Banjo
- Ignazio Spalla: Carrincha
- Nick Jordan: Indio " Gatto Mammone "
- Franco Ressel: Hardy stem
- Antonio Gradoli: Fergusson (as Anthony Gradwell )
- Linda Veras: Jane
- Gianni Rizzo: Judge O'Hara
- Claudio Undari: Oswald (as Robert Hundar )
- Spartaco Conversi: Slim (as Spanny Convery )
- Janos Bartha: Sheriff (as John Bartha )
- Carlo Tamberlani: Bank Director (as Charles Tamblyn )
- Marco Zuanelli: Sharky
- Gino Marturano: McCallum
- Giuseppe Mattei: Frankie (as Joseph Matthews)
- Luciano Pigozzi: Bad Father Brown (as Alan Collins)
- Rodolfo Lodi: Father Brown
- Romano Puppo: Rocky bendato
Sabata ( Original Title: Ehi amico ... c'è Sabata, hai chiuso ) is a spaghetti western from the year 1969 was directed by Gianfranco Parolini, as executive producer Alberto Grimaldi was responsible. . The German premiere was on May 2, 1970.
Action
The former officer Sabata comes to town Dougherty. While taking a drink in the bar, the bench of the place is robbed by thieves who take a strong metal safe with $ 60,000 to Army funds with it. Sabata is behind the thieves and bring back the money along with a cart full of corpses. Then he meets an old friend, banjo, who also resides in the city. Even with the two quirky characters Carrincha, a comic thicknesses, and Indio, acrobats and a silent witness of the robbery, he befriends itself.
As a reward for reconnaissance for the attack Sabata demanded $ 5,000. He finds out that the two reputable citizens stems and Judge O'Hara and the saloon owner Ferguson behind the attack because they were planning with the sums insured to purchase land which they wanted to sell expensive for the planned railway line. With Carrincha Indio and he tries to take advantage of stalks and his army against this knowledge while also Banjo has an interest in the money and it tries to remove Sabata. Sabata escapes assassination and can use his superior skills to his advantage. In a showdown all scammers get the deserved reward; Behind the men die, Banjo is paid to the life of Sabata.
Reviews
The Italian critics praised the presentation mainly by van Cleef and Berger and called the in more playful rather than serious tone unrealized film by the director "good rhythm ".
" The makers of this film enjoy their own cunning, a pleasure which she transferred to her title hero and ultimately also to the audience. The recipe to create an air of unreality about the film by pushing everything to the extreme, is applied here with good success. "
Genre connoisseur Christian Kessler sums it up: " An enormously good-looking film.. Technically, really hard to beat " entirely different and negative opinion was the lexicon of international film: " Wirrer spaghetti westerns, clumsily directed and acted wooden ".
Comments
The film was made mostly in Italy, with some location shots in Tabernas.
Synchronization
The Ultra Film synchronous, Berlin, placed under the direction of Michael Günther for the dialogue book written by him following a spokesman:
- Lee van Cleef: Heinz Petruo
- William Berger: Rolf Schult
- Iganzio Spalla: Alexander Welbat
- Franco Ressel: Harry Wüstenhagen
- Antonio Gradoli: Heinz Giese
- Claudio Undari: Jürgen Thormann
- Gianni Rizzo: Hans -Dieter Zeidler