Anche nel west c'era una volta Dio (1968)

User Rating:

5.1/10   

Director:

Marino Girolami

Writers:

Tito Carpi (screenplay)
Tito Carpi (story)

Release Date:

7 October 1968 (Italy)

Genre:

Western

Tagline:

An orgy of bloodletting that very few will survive.

Plot:

A man gains access to a treasure map and persuades a guide (Juan Chasquisdo) to accompany him in his search to recover it. Both are pursued by bandits.

Plot Keywords:

Treasure | Spaghetti Western | Church | Outlaw | Treasure Hunt

Cast

Gilbert Roland	...	Juan Chasquisdo
Richard Harrison	...	Father Pat Jordan
Ennio Girolami	...	Marco Serraldo
Folco Lulli	...	Colonel Bob Ford
Raf Baldassarre	...	Batch
Dominique Boschero	...	Marta
Roberto Camardiel	...	Uncle Pink
Humberto Sempere	...	Teddy
Luis Barboo	...	Zed
Gonzalo Esquiroz
Rocco Lerro
José Luis Lluch
Mirella Pamphili
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Xan das Bolas
Enzo G. Castellari
Rafael de la Rosa
José María Ecenarro
José Sacristán
José Sánchez

Also Known As:

Between God, the Devil and a Winchester
Entre Dios y el diablo (Spain)
God Was in the West, Too, at One Time (USA)

Runtime:

98 min | France:105 min

Country:

Italy | Spain

Language:

Italian

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Certification:

Norway:16 (1971) | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | USA:R

Company:

Circus Film

Trivia:

Italian censorship visa # 52430 delivered on 2-10-1968.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in O faflatas (1971)

BETWEEN GOD, THE DEVIL AND A WINCHESTER (Marino Girolami, 1968) **1/2

While nothing special in itself (and in spite of its portentous title), this one scores a few points for transposing Robert Louis Stevenson's classic pirate adventure "Treasure Island" to a Spaghetti Western landscape! Folco Lulli plays the Billy Bones figure – who sets the plot in motion; 'Long John Silver' is Gilbert Roland, sporting an iron hand instead of a wooden leg! Also involved are preacher Richard Harrison, while 'Jim Hawkins' is incarnated by a Mexican boy (who, naturally, befriends the roguish Roland).

Director Girolami (using the pseudonym Dario Silvestri), who dabbled in everything from comedy to action-oriented efforts, is the lesser-known father of cult film-maker Enzo G. Castellari (curiously enough, Roland co-starred in the latter's debut feature – ANY GUN CAN PLAY [1967] – which, incidentally, is also a Spaghetti Western). The film remains watchable, thanks also to a notable score from Carlo Savina; it does, however, include a couple of almost campy moments – one in which a badman is set on fire when a Mexican girl he has attempted to rape breaks a lantern over his head, but he takes care to repeatedly shoot her prior to expiring himself(!); another is when Roland's thin cigar is lit by a shot fired from the gun being handled by non-practitioner Harrison!