Se incontri Sartana prega per la tua morte (1968)

Director:

Gianfranco Parolini

Writers:

Adolfo Cagnacci (story)
Luigi De Santis (story)

Release Date:

14 August 1968 (Italy)

Genre:

Western

Plot:

After a stagecoach is robbed and the passengers murdered, a long and tangled series of surprise attacks...

Plot Keywords:

Robbery | Stagecoach | Killing | Death | Mass Murder

Cast

Gianni Garko	...	Sartana (as John Garko)
Klaus Kinski	...	Morgan
Fernando Sancho	...	Jose Manuel Mendoza
William Berger	...	Lasky
Sydney Chaplin	...	Jeff Stewal
Gianni Rizzo	...	Alman
Andrea Scotti	...	Perdido (as Andrew Scott)
Carlo Tamberlani	...	Pastor on stagecoach
Franco Pesce	...	Dusty
Heidi Fischer	...	Evelyn
Maria Pia Conte	...	Jane
Sabine Sun	...	Girl at the saloon ) (as Sabine (III)
Gianfranco Parolini	...	Gambler (as John Francis Littlewords)
Sergio Jossa
Rossella Bergamonti		(as Patricia Carr)

Also Known As:

Gunfighters Die Harder (USA)
If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death
Sartana (France)
Sartana - Bete um Deinen Tod

Runtime:

95 min

Country:

Italy | France | West Germany

Language:

Italian

Color:

Color (Telecolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Norway:(Banned) (1969) | UK:15 (1986) | Finland:S | Sweden:15 | West Germany:16

Company:

Paris Etolie Films

Movie Connections:

Referenced in I giorni dell'ira (1967)

SARTANA is an entertaining SW with lots of action, gun-play and fun

A coach is stolen and its passengers are killed. Later occur a murders series starred by a bandit named Lasky(William Berger, unforgettable co-starring in ¨Sabata¨ as the banjo man). The stagecoach's strongbox has disappeared turning into several hands. The dark,elegant hero, a freelance gunman, named Sartana(Gianni Garco or John Garco) appears to chase the nasty gunfighter and discover the robberies and killings.The confrontation will be inevitable among the town's despots(Sydney Chaplin, Gianni Rizzo), a cruel murderous( top-notch Klaus Kinski, as always), a Mexican general named Tampico( the great Fernando Sancho in his regular character), Lansky and of course Sartana.

The first movie on Sartana starred by Gianni Garco is plenty of action, shootouts, double-crosses, twists and loads of violence and blood. It was followed by director Alfonso Balcazar with ¨Sartana non Perdona or Sonora¨. Miles Deem directed two Sartanas deemed lousy and cheesy. Giuliano Carmineo , alias Anthony Ascott, directed various with George Hilton who replaces to Garco. Hilton played more natural and roguish than Garco who was cold and peculiar. The movie gets the usual Western issues, such as greedy antiheroes, violent facing off, quick zooms, exaggerated baddies, among them. Appear very secondaries the habitual at Italian Western and Peplum genre, such as Sal Borgese, Carlo Tamberlani Andrea Scotti, and cameo by the director Parolini as a gambler. Special mention to Franco Pesce, Spaghetti's customary, as an old gravedigger. Atmospheric musical score by Piero Piccioni and appropriate cinematography by Sandro Macori. The picture is professionally directed by Frank Kramer or Gianfranco Parolini, subsequently he directed another Spaghetti-hero named Sabata with Lee Van Cleef in two entries.