Los desesperados (1969)

User Rating:

5.8/10   

Director:

Julio Buchs

Writers:

Julio Buchs (screenplay)
Julio Buchs (story)

Release Date:

May 1970 (USA)

Genre:

Western

Tagline:

A gritty story of seething hatred and thrilling adventure.

Plot:

Three bankrobbers find shelter in an isolated farm where an old man lives together with his granddaughter. |

Plot Keywords:

Civil War | Deserter | Spaghetti Western | Bullring | Hired Killer

Cast

Ernest Borgnine	...	Don Pedro Sandoval
George Hilton	...	John Warner
Annabella Incontrera	...	Rosa
Alberto de Mendoza	...	Lucky
Leo Anchóriz	...	Monk
Gustavo Rojo	...	Guadalupano
Manuel de Blas
Manuel Miranda	...	Francisco
José Manuel Martín	...	Cross-Eyed Guy
Antonio Pica	...	Sam
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Andrea Aureli	...	Morton
Luis Barboo
Charly Bravo
José Guardiola
Andrés Mejuto
Antonio Molino Rojo
Mary Paz Pondal
George Rigaud
Alfonso Rojas
Adalberto Rossetti
Claudio Trionfi
Dan van Husen	...	Mestizo

Also Known As:

A Bullet for Sandoval (USA)
Desperate Men (UK)
Quei disperati che puzzano di sudore e di morte (Italy)
Those Desperate Men Who Smell of Dirt and Death (USA)
Vengeance Is Mine

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for western violence. (orginally rated GP in 1970)

Runtime:

105 min

Country:

Italy | Spain

Language:

Italian

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Australia:M | Finland:K-16 | Norway:16 (1971) | Sweden:15 | USA:GP (original rating) | USA:PG-13 (re-rating) (2005)

Company:

Atlántida Films

Trivia:

Sometimes it is falsely claimed the movie was co-directed by Lucio Fulci, but this is not true. Actor George Hilton has stated so in many interviews.

Movie Connections:

References The Wild Bunch (1969)

One of the best spaghettis..

Anybody who is into spaghettis should watch this film. The plot is about a woman that dies after giving birth to the son of her lover (George Hilton), a soldier away on duty. The father of the woman (Ernest Borgnine), hates Hilton and blames him for her death. The hatred the men have for eachother consumes them both and they spend the film stalking eachother, until they finally settle the account at the end, with one of the best and climatic endings I have ever seen in any movie.

For a start, the acting in this spag, is better than 90% of the spags I have seen. The atmosphere is dripping with a sense of fate and destiny...a sort of weird nihilism between the two men. The cinematography is gorgeous and the film moves from scene to scene very smoothly...making it easy to watch.

The ending is an unusual one for a spaghetti. Its simply brilliant.