Texas, addio (1966)

Director:

Ferdinando Baldi

Writers:

Ferdinando Baldi (screenplay)
Ferdinando Baldi (story)

Release Date:

29 November 1967 (Sweden)

Genre:

Action | Western

Plot:

The tough gun-man Burt Sullivan (Franco Nero) leaves his job as a town sheriff to go to Mexico to find the man...

Plot Keywords:

Revenge | Ambush | Violence | State In Title | Spaghetti Western

Cast

Franco Nero	...	Burt Sullivan
Alberto Dell'Acqua	...	Jim Sullivan (as Cole Kitosch)
Elisa Montés	...	Mulatta Girl
José Guardiola	...	McLeod
Livio Lorenzon	...	Alcalde Miguel
Hugo Blanco	...	Pedro
Luigi Pistilli
Antonella Murgia
Gino Pernice	...	Bank Employee
Giovanni Ivan Scratuglia	...	Dick (as Ivan Scratuglia)
Silvana Bacci	...	Bar-maid
Remo De Angelis
Mario Novelli
José Suárez	...	Cisco Delgado

Also Known As:

Adiós, Texas (Spain)
Goodbye Texas (USA)
The Avenger

Runtime:

Italy:93 min | Spain:90 min

Country:

Italy | Spain

Language:

Italian

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

UK:12 (re-rating) (2004) | UK:15 (original rating) | Finland:(Banned) (uncut) (1968) | Finland:K-16 (heavily cut) (1968) | Iceland:16 | Singapore:PG | West Germany:18 (nf) | South Korea:15 | Argentina:13 | Norway:16 | Spain:18 | Sweden:15

Company:

B.R.C. Produzione S.r.l.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Preparati la bara! (1968)

Soundtrack:

Texas, addio!

Good Spaghetti Western

Like almost every Western starring Franco Nero after Sergio Corbucci's 1966 masterpiece "Django", "Texas, Addio" was marketed as a Django-sequel in Germany and Austria. Although it has neither anything to do with Django, nor is it anywhere near "Django" in it's value as one of the genre's highlights, Texas Addio is still a good Spaghetti Western. Besides the great Franco Nero it features typical Spaghetti Western supporting actors like Luigi Pistilli, Livio Lorenzon and Gino Pernice. When It comes to Ferdinando Baldi's Westerns, however, I would personally recommend "Blindman" way over "Texas Addio".

Along with his younger brother Jim, Burt Sullivan, a former Sheriff in Texas, leaves to Mexico to search and capture his father's murderer, Cisco Delgado, and bring him to justice...alive. Cisco, however, has in the meantime become a powerful landowner and crime boss.

Franco Nero has once said that out of all the Westerns he played in, "Texas Addio" is the only one that could also be an American Western. This is kinda true, on the one hand, since Nero's character Burt Sullivan is not the typical anti-hero, but a man who is looking to bring his father's murderer to justice alive, rather than just taking revenge. On the other hand some characters, like the grouchy and cynical Alcalde Miguel, played by Livio Lorenzo, are very typical Spaghetti-characters. Franco Nero's performance is great as always, many of the supporting actors are very good too. All things considered, "Texas Addio" is a fairly good Spaghetti Western, not one of the genre's highlights, but definitely worth watching.