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Burt Sullivan
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Alberto Dell'Acqua | ... |
Jim Sullivan
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Elisa Montés | ... |
Mulatta Girl
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José Guardiola | ... |
McLeod
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Livio Lorenzon | ... |
Alcalde Miguel
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Hugo Blanco | ... |
Pedro
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Hernandez
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Antonella Murgia | ... |
Burt's Mother
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Bank Employee
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Giovanni Ivan Scratuglia | ... |
Dick
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Silvana Bacci | ... |
Paquita - Barmaid
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Remo De Angelis | ... |
Juan - Delgado Henchman
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Mario Novelli | ... |
Bounty Hunter
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José Suárez | ... |
Cisco Delgado
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The tough gun-man Burt Sullivan (Franco Nero) leaves his job as a town sheriff to go to Mexico to find the man, Cisco, who killed his father many years ago. He and his younger brother arrive in a small town where everybody is afraid of Cisco who has become the local landowner. But there is a secret. It turns out that Cisco is the father of Burt's younger brother and Cisco are craving for respect from his "son". Burt Sullivan joins forces with the local townspeople to stop and bring Cisco back to his punishment in Texas. Written by Uffe Ring-Petersen <uffe.ring-petersen@eb.dk>
While Texas, Addio may not be among the high water mark of European Western filmmaking, I find it baffling that one would completely dismiss a film because of the quality of its post-production dubbing in a language different from that of its country of origin. Filmmakers are rarely responsible for how their film is presented in foreign language markets, so to place the blame on Mr. Baldi and the producers for the relative poorness (which I must also disagree with--there have been much, much worse dubbing jobs) of the dub is the same sort of ill-informed ignorance that says that the Godzilla films produced by Toho Studios in Japan are "badly acted" because the American dubbing is sub-par.
Aside from the dubbing, there's really no other reason to state that the studio and/or producers were incapable of making a Western. While Texas, Addio may not on par with Red River or The Searchers, the film delivers what most Western audiences ask for--a solid hero, a hissable villain, a believable conflict, plenty of gunplay, and a scenic atmosphere (and again, I'm baffled by statements that label the Spanish location as unattractive or, at the very least, not reminiscent of the American West).
If you're interested in Italian Westerns, I urge you to see beyond the dubbing and invest the time in this film.