Su le mani, cadavere! Sei in arresto (1971)

User Rating:

5.0/10   

Director:

León Klimovsky

Writers:

Enrico Zuccarini (story) and
Jesus Maria Elorietta (story) ...

Release Date:

17 December 1971 (Italy)

Genre:

Action | Romance | Western

Plot Keywords:

Spaghetti Western | Beautiful Woman

Cast

Peter Lee Lawrence	...	Sando Kid
Espartaco Santoni	...	Dollar, the bounty hunter
Franco Agostini	...	Brother Bamba
Aldo Sambrell	...	Grayton (as Aldo Sambrel)
Helga Liné	...	Maybelle
Maria Zanandrea
Tomás Blanco		(as Tomas Blanco)
Aurora de Alba
Giovanni Santoponte
Antonio Cintado
Rafael Corés
Luis Barboo	...	Full-bearded hoodlum who's "arrested" with his two sidekicks by Sando Kid
Alfonso de la Vega
José Canalejas	...	Angel, Graytons black dressed henchnman
Lorenzo Robledo	...	Blond landowner, working for railroad company, threatened by Grayton

Also Known As:

Raise Your Hands, Dead Man, You're Under Arrest (USA)
Un dólar para Sartana (Spain)

Runtime:

Italy:94 min | Spain:87 min | West Germany:92 min (cut version: 79 minutes)

Country:

Italy | Spain

Language:

Italian

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Certification:

West Germany:18 (cut version: 16)

Filming Locations:

Almería, Andalucía, Spain

Company:

Sara Film

Trivia:

Klaus Kinski was attached to this project at one stage.

Raise Your Hands, Dead Man, You're Under Arrest (Leon Klimovsky, 1971) **

This Spaghetti Western from Spanish horror director Klimovsky begins in the Civil War, then proceeds to your typical Western town; it does include an offbeat score, which blends a lively main theme with a flurry of vaguely ominous sounds.

The hero – called Sando Kid(?!) and played by Peter Lee Lawrence – is as bland as they come (and too boyish to convince); he's helped by a stuttering priest/ex-soldier pal and a rambunctious ranger/bounty-hunter (whose presence is always threatening to have some import on the central plot, but it never actually does!). The villain (typically, he wants to run citizens off their rightful land through terrorism for his own profit) is genre regular Aldo Sanbrell, his 'moll' "Euro-Cult" starlet Helga Line'; of course, Lawrence and friends won't stand for this (Sanbrell had actually met them during the war, where they were once again fighting on opposite sides…but he's conveniently erased all memory of his callous massacre of the wounded enemy at a time when hostilities had already ceased!).

As with many oaters in this vein, the film is a harmless time-waster but instantly forgettable; even at a mere day's distance from its viewing, I can barely recall other significant plot details or genuinely memorable sequences, action or otherwise – I do know that the priest, comically, gives absolution to Sambrell's fallen gunmen at the climax!