Day of Judgment (1971)
"Il giorno del giudizio" (original title)

Ty Hardin stars as a Yankee soldier who seeks revenge on the six killers who murdered his wife & child and burned his home. He tracks down and kills each man one by one until he finds the leader of the gang.

Director:

Mario Gariazzo

Writer:

Mario Gariazzo

Stars:

Ty Hardin, Craig Hill, Gordon Mitchell

Cast

Credited cast:
Ty Hardin	...	The Stranger
Craig Hill	...	Oconner
Gordon Mitchell	...	Deputy
Rossano Brazzi	...	Sheriff
Edda Di Benedetto	...	Prairie Flower
Rosalba Neri	...	Rising Sun
Pinuccio Ardia	...	Mr. Higgins
Raf Baldassarre	...	Jason
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Ugo Adinolfi
Jenny Atkins	...	Circus Girl
Federico Boido	...	(as Rick Boyd)
Stelio Candelli	...	Deputy Miller
Giuseppe Castellano	...	Jenkins
Giovanni Cianfriglia	...	Blackie (as Ken Wood)
Bruno Corazzari	...	Bill

Storyline

Ty Hardin stars as a Yankee soldier who seeks revenge on the six killers who murdered his wife & child and burned his home. He tracks down and kills each man one by one until he finds the leader of the gang.

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Plot Keywords:

soldier | revenge | street shootout | spaghetti western | husband wife relationship | 

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Genres:

Western

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Details

Country:

Italy UK

Language:

English

Release Date:

9 September 1971 (Italy)

Also Known As:

Doomsday

Company Credits

Production Co:

Barrington Film Productions, Times Films Production

Technical Specs

Runtime:

99 min 75 min (DVD) 89 min (English)

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Although Ennio Morricone is credited for scoring this film, it was actually written by him for Hellbenders and it was lifted, uncredited, from that film.

User Reviews

entertaining revenge-themed euro-western

Unfortunately, the version of this movie that I have suffers from very poor editing. There are a couple of scenes that are so badly chopped that you just kind of have to figure out for yourself what just happened! Confirming my suspicion that this movie was grossly hacked up is the fact that, according to the IMDb, the Italian version of the film runs for 99 minutes. My English language DVD is only 73 minutes long!

What's left of the movie is actually very enjoyable. It's a decent B-grade revenge story with all the requisite cool action scenes and cheesy emotional flashbacks that make these movies so much fun to watch.

The music score is decent, but it borrows some parts from another, more well-known, spaghetti western called "The Hellbenders" (I Crudeli). I wouldn't be surprised if the borrowed parts of the music score are unique to the English language version. Perhaps the editing wreaked so much havoc with the original score that some moron in the chopping room said "let's just stick that Hellbenders song in there to fill in those parts." Who knows?

The version that I have probably really deserves a 5 out of ten rating at best, but I can tell that the movie would be considerably better in its complete, original form, so I am giving it an extra point. I hope a good print of the film in its entirety gets released some day, because I would love to see it and rewrite this review. I wouldn't be surprised if it turned out to be a 7 or an 8. At any rate, I liked it anyway, so if you're a spaghetti western fanatic, you may find it to be worth watching, even in its current chopped up form.