Le pistole non discutono (1964)

User Rating:

4.9/10   

Director:

Mario Caiano

Writers:

Gianni Castellano (writer)
Giuseppe Moccia (writer)

Release Date:

23 October 1964 (West Germany)

Genre:

Western

Plot:

On his own wedding day, sheriff Pat Garrett must leave and try to arrest two bank robbers. |

Cast

Rod Cameron	...	Pat Garrett
Horst Frank	...	Billy Clanton
Ángel Aranda	...	George Clanton
Vivi Bach	...	Agnes Goddard
Luis Durán	...	Mike Goddard
Kai Fischer	...	Helen
Mimmo Palmara	...	Santero (as Dick Palmer)
Hans Nielsen	...	Reverend Alvarez
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Simón Arriaga	...	Santero Henchman
Andrea Aureli	...	Manuel (as Andrew Ray)
Juan Cortés	...	Banker
Tito García	...	Miguel
Joe Kamel	...	Cpt. MacKay
José Manuel Martín	...	Ramon
Julio Pérez Tabernero	...	Manny
Giulia Rubini	...	Martha Coogan (as Judy Robbins)
Paul L. Smith		(as Paul Smith)
Eulalia Tenorio		(as Laly Tenory)

Also Known As:

Bullets Don't Argue (USA)
Bullets Don't Lie (International: English title) (informal title)
Die letzten Zwei vom Rio Bravo (West Germany)
Guns Don't Talk
Las pistolas no discuten (Spain)

Runtime:

92 min

Country:

Spain | Italy | West Germany

Language:

Italian

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Norway:16 | West Germany:12 (nf) | Sweden:15

Filming Locations:

Almería, Andalucía, Spain

Company:

Constantin Film Produktion

Good but not great early spaghetti...

This is the film that Jolly Films of Rome and the other producing companies were putting their hopes and money into while tossing a bone to an unknown director named Sergio Leone, giving him film ends and minimal financing to shoot a movie called The Magnificent Stranger which featured a little-known American TV actor named Clint Eastwood. BULLETS DON'T ARGUE starred Rod Cameron, a bigger name, as Pat Garrett, with Horst Frank and Angel Aranda as Billy and George Clanton, thus mixing two old west legends into a very typically American spaghetti western. It kind of reminded me of the Budd Boetticher/Randolph Scott westerns of the late fifties, with Cameron as the stoic, older authority figure bringing in the wild, younger outlaws, and is pretty darned good, doing what it sets out to do. Oddly enough the highlight of Morricone's score is the song Lonesome Billy, about the elder of the outlaw brothers. BTW I think this is the film that did so poorly at the Italian box office that it prompted Variety to report that spaghetti westerns were dead, a week or so before the Leone/Eastwood film, retitled A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS, turned the film world on its ear.