Il bianco, il giallo, il nero (1975)

User Rating:

5.6/10   

Director:

Sergio Corbucci

Writers:

Mario Amendola (writer)
Renée Asseo (writer)

Release Date:

17 January 1975 (Italy)

Genre:

Western | Adventure | Comedy

Plot Keywords:

Spaghetti Western | Color In Title | Cross Dressing | Pony | Native American

Cast

Giuliano Gemma	...	Blanc de Blanc / Stetson
Tomas Milian	...	Sakura
Eli Wallach	...	Sheriff Edward Gideon / aka Black Jack
Manuel de Blas	...	Major Donovan
Jacques Berthier	...	Kelly Butler
Romano Puppo	...	Kady
Nazzareno Zamperla	...	Sgt. Donovan
Edy Biagetti
Hideo Saito	...	Yamoto
Frank Nuyen	...	Console Giapponese
Lorenzo Robledo	...	Colonel
Giovanni Petrucci		(as Giovanni Petti)
Tito García
Franco Tocci
Cris Huerta	...	Robinson Grasso

Also Known As:

El blanco, el amarillo y el negro (Spain)
Le blanc, le jaune et le noir (France)
Samurai (Canada: English title) (video title)
Shoot First... Ask Questions Later (USA)
The White, the Yellow, and the Black (USA)

Runtime:

Spain:108 min (cut version) | Spain:112 min (uncut version) | USA:99 min

Country:

Italy | Spain | France

Language:

Italian

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

West Germany:12 (nf) | Spain:T

Filming Locations:

Madrid, Spain

Company:

Filmel

Movie Connections:

Referenced in DVD (2006)

Not Corbucci's best, but definitely one of his weirdest.

Don't go into this film expecting a typical Corbucci high body count shoot 'em up. This time around the famous `other Sergio' takes a stab at the comedy/spaghetti sub-genre which was ever so popular in the waning days of the Euro Western. `Bianco, il giallo, il nero, Il' is more or less a bizarro take on the East meets wild West classic `Red Sun'. Eli Wallach plays `Black Jack Gideon', a straight and narrow lawman who reluctantly gets mixed up in a quest to recover a prize Japanese show pony that's being held for ransom by a renegade band of army deserters with a penchant for dressing up like Indians. Accompanying him on his journey are the notorious bandit and womanizer `Swiss', played by Giuliano Gemma and `Sakura' the dung handler turned Samurai played by Tomas Milian. Many unintentional laughs and moments of genuine surreal weirdness set to the equally strange Guido & Maurizio De Angelis score almost guarantee this film to delight fans of the genre and confuse and frighten the average viewer.