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25 March 1971 (West Germany)
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The Deserter and his blood bath brigade -- they drenched the west with terror!
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Bitter over his wife's death due to what he believes was army negligence, Capt. Viktor Kaleb deserts...
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A Nixon Doctrine Spaghetti western with Rambo in buckskins...
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Bekim Fehmiu | ... | Captain Victor Kaleb | |
| Richard Crenna | ... | Major Wade Brown | |
| Chuck Connors | ... | Reynolds | |
| Ricardo Montalban | ... | Natachai | |
| Ian Bannen | ... | Cpt. Crawford | |
| Brandon De Wilde | ... | Ferguson | |
| Slim Pickens | ... | Tattinger | |
| Woody Strode | ... | Jackson | |
| Albert Salmi | ... | Schmidt | |
| Patrick Wayne | ... | Cpt. Bill Robinson | |
| Fausto Tozzi | ... | Orozco | |
| Mimmo Palmara | ... | Chief Mangus Durango | |
| John Alderson | ... | O'Toole | |
| Doc Greaves | ... | Scott | |
| Lucio Rosato | ... | Jed |
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Also Known As:
Djavolja kicma (Yugoslavia: Serbian title)
La spina dorsale del diavolo (Italy)
Ride to Glory (USA) (video title)
The Devil's Backbone (USA)
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La spina dorsale del diavolo (Italy)
Ride to Glory (USA) (video title)
The Devil's Backbone (USA)
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100 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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2.35 : 1 more
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Mono (Westrex Recording System)
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Tattinger:
What's that dog doing?
Captain Viktor Kaleb: Get away from there!
Tattinger: Why, he was fixin' to eat that
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Tattinger: Indian!
Captain Viktor Kaleb: One tried to eat him once.
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Captain Viktor Kaleb: Get away from there!
Tattinger: Why, he was fixin' to eat that
[dead]
Tattinger: Indian!
Captain Viktor Kaleb: One tried to eat him once.
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What can I say about this film?
Well, it has to be first Nixon doctrine spaghetti western with a frustrated general complaining about the rules of engagement that prevent him launching a search-and-destroy mission on an Apache stronghold in Mexico (Hmmmm...substitute Apaches for the Vietcong and Mexico for Vietnam...) It even has a buckskin Rambo, that being Captain Kaleb, who wants to take out the entire Apache nation after his wife is murdered.
Well, this gets me to the movie. It is one of those movie that used to get made in the Sixties and Early Seventies where scores of actors are assembled in various stock roles, with a screenplay that has recycled every action movie convention without much spark or imagination. And then there's Bekim Fehmiu. I've seen more vivid performances from driftwood.
In short, it's one of those movies you watch on a Saturday afternoon, when nothing else is on and pay very little attention to it.
The only exception I would have to make it for Piero Piccioni's score. It's got that cheezy late sixties jazz thing going on (apologies to Dennis Miller..)
Other than that, it is nothing terribly memorable...