Agi Murad il diavolo bianco (1959)

Directors:

Riccardo Freda
Riccardo Freda

Writers:

Gino De Santis (writer)
Ákos Tolnay (writer)

Release Date:

10 February 1961 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Drama

Tagline:

Might is Right!

Plot:

The story of Hadji Murad, a 19th-century Chechen chieftain who led his warriors in a fight against the invading forces of the Russian Czar. |

Plot Keywords:

Warrior | Russian | Czar | Wrestling | Cannon

Cast

Steve Reeves	...	Hadji Murad the White Warrior
Giorgia Moll	...	Sultanet, Haslem Bey's Daughter
Scilla Gabel	...	Princess Maria Vorontsova
Renato Baldini	...	Ahmed Khan
Gérard Herter	...	Prince Sergei
Milivoje Zivanovic	...	Tsar Nicholas I
Nikola Popovic	...	King Shamil
Jovan Gec	...	Ibram Bey
Niksa Stefanini	...	Ganzolo
Milivoje Popovic-Mavid	...	Doctor Eldar
Antun Nalis	...	Melders, Murad's Lieutenant
Marija Tocinoski
Pasquale Basile
Goffredo Unger		(as Goffredo Ungaro)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Dragomir Felba

Also Known As:

Beli djavo
The White Warrior (UK)

Runtime:

91 min | UK:85 min

Country:

Italy | Yugoslavia

Language:

Italian

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Sound Recording)

Company:

Majestic Film

Trivia:

For the U.S. English dubbed version, released through Warner Brothers, the name of director Riccardo Freda was listed in the credits as Richard Freda.

Quotes:

Prince Sergei: [referring to Hadji Murad] There are many ways of making him give in. For example, crushing his fingers one by one, slowly, while he screams and screams, maddened with pain.

REEVES DOUBLE DESERVES COSTAR BILLING.

I was a huge fan of Steve Reeves in the early 60's and saw all of his movies,however on seeing some of them again recently I was amazed at how extensively doubled he was in his many action scenes.In his character's final fight scene in THE WHITE WARRIOR he is doubled throughout by a stuntman who bears scant resemblence to him at all.I don't want to burst the guy's bubble at all as Reeves remains one of the cult action stars but I would have thought that a great part of the enjoyment of getting into these sort of movies would be to film at least part of your own fight scenes. Reeves rarely did. THE WHITE WARRIOR is not one of his best and is hardly the epic described on the video cover;it plays like an amateur dramatic societys attempt at TARAS BULBA! You know that the hero's name is Agi Murad because everyone who speaks to him uses his name about a dozen times.There are two beautiful actresses in this movie,Scilla Gabel and Georgia Moll and Reeves is less cautious about kissing them than he is about doing his own stunts.However,those who choose to watch a Reeves movie never wanted to see him kiss,we wanted to see him fight.It seems that in retrospect we rarely did,just an un-named stuntman.Another childhood illusion shattered.