Diamante Lobo (1976)

Director:

Gianfranco Parolini

Writers:

John Fonseca (screenplay)
Gianfranco Parolini (screenplay)

Release Date:

March 1977 (USA)

Genre:

Western

Plot:

Priest turned vigilante Father John (Van Cleef) hunts down a gang of criminals, led by Sam Clayton (Palance)...

Plot Keywords:

Priest | Revenge | Child Fighting Adult | Small Town | Revolver

Cast

Lee Van Cleef	...	Father John / Lewis
Jack Palance	...	Sam Clayton
Richard Boone	...	The Sheriff
Sybil Danning	...	Jenny
Leif Garrett	...	Johnny
Robert Lipton	...	Jess Clayton
Cody Palance	...	Zeke Clayton
Ian Sander	...	Red Clayton
Pnina Rosenblum	...	Chesty (as Pnina Golan)
Zila Carni	...	Juanita Lewis
Heinz Bernard	...	Judge Barrett
Didi Lukov	...	Rip
Ricardo David	...	Angel George
Chin Chin	...	Willy
Rafi Ben Ami	...	Mortimer
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Franco Pesce	...	Crooked Gambler (uncredited)
Carolyn Stellar	...	Woman on Horse (uncredited)

Directed by
Gianfranco Parolini		(as Frank Kramer)

Writing credits
John Fonseca		(screenplay)
Gianfranco Parolini		(screenplay) (as Frank Kramer)

Produced by
Yoram Globus	....	associate producer
Menahem Golan	....	producer

Original Music by
Sante Maria Romitelli

Cinematography by
Sandro Mancori		(director of photography)

Film Editing by
Manlio Camastro

Art Direction by
Claudio De Santis		(as Claudio Desantis)

Makeup Department
Hanna Chalfon	....	makeup artist
Blanche Shuler	....	makeup artist

Production Management
Rafi Adar	....	production manager
Chaim Manor	....	production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Itschak Ben Zur	....	assistant director
Leonard Natan	....	assistant director
Timna Ranon	....	assistant director

Art Department
Ariel Roshko	....	assistant art director

Sound Department
Wally Milner	....	sound
Simcha Silberstein	....	boom operator

Special Effects by
Gianni D'Andrea	....	special effects

Camera and Electrical Department
Sami Gratushka	....	camera loader
Yoni Hamenachem	....	still photographer (as Joni Hamenachem)
Samuel Levi	....	chief grip
Aldo Marchiori	....	focus puller
Mario Sbrenna	....	camera operator
Eitan Tzur	....	chief electrician

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Edit Burstein	....	assistant wardrobe
Sara Weiner	....	wardrober

Editorial Department
Orlando Signorelli	....	assistant film editor

Other crew
Melody Greene	....	script girl
Naomi Mayberg	....	production secretary
Ovadia Mayberg	....	location manager
Beni Uzan	....	wrangler
Mimmo Uzan	....	wrangler
Ralph Zucker	....	dialogue coach

Production Companies

• Golan-Globus Productions
• Dunamis Cinematografica
• Irwin Yablans Company, The
• Rovi

Distributors

• Astral Films (1978) (Canada) (theatrical) (dubbed)
• Cannon Film Distributors (1978) (USA) (theatrical) (dubbed)
• Irwin Yablans Company, The (1978) (USA) (theatrical) (dubbed)
• Lime Lights Pictures (2009) (Netherlands) (DVD)
• Warner Home Video (1996) (USA) (VHS)
• United American Video (1998) (USA) (VHS)
• Direct Source (2001) (USA) (VHS)
• MGM/UA Home Entertainment (2001) (USA) (VHS)
• Llamentol (2003) (Spain) (DVD)
• Showtime DVD (2003) (Australia) (DVD) (as "God's Gun")
• MRA Entertainment Group (2004) (Australia) (DVD)
• Reel Media International (2004) (USA) (VHS)
• Reel Media International (2005) (USA) (TV)
• Arts Home Entertainment (2006) (Netherlands) (DVD)
• Better Television Distribution (2006) (worldwide) (TV)
• MGM Home Entertainment (Europe) (2007) (UK) (DVD)
• Reel Media International (2007) (USA) (all media)
• Mill Creek Entertainment (2010) (USA) (DVD) (as "God's Gun")
• Century Vídeo (????) (Brazil) (VHS)
• Crystal Pictures (????) (Brazil) (VHS)
• Direct Source (????) (USA) (DVD)
• GMVS (????) (UK) (DVD)
• ITT Contrast (1982) (West Germany) (VHS)

Also Known As:

Runtime:

94 min

Country:

Italy | Israel

Language:

Italian

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Australia:M | Finland:K-16 | Norway:16 (1977) | USA:R | Spain:13 | Iceland:16 | Netherlands:16 | UK:18 | Australia:PG (DVD rating)

Filming Locations:

Israel

Company:

Golan-Globus Productions

Trivia:

Sybil Danning plays Jenny, and is the mother of Johnny, Leif Garrett's character. Dancing is 14 years older than Garrett.

Goofs:

Continuity: When Johnny plays horseshoes he leaves his throw short. He walks up to the shoe and kicks it onto the stake. There is a second shoe to the left and short of the stake. Father John arrives and admonishes Johnny for cheating and throws a shoe himself getting a ringer. However, the other two shoes are no longer in the picture.

Quotes:

Sam Clayton:I ain't getting no younger. Time just goes by and then... then one day... one day you just get older and suddenly... you find yourself... all alone.
Jenny:You deserve to be alone.

A below average Spaghetti Western with double performance by Lee Van Cleef

A preacher ( Lee Van Cleef) is gunned down by a cutthroat band ( leading Jack Palance ) . The son (Leif Garret) of a Saloon girl ( Sybil Danning ) is looking for the priest's brother , an ex-gunfighter ( again Van Cleef ) . The gunman seeks vengeance on the evil men who murdered him . Lee Van Cleef is better in the two first films from ¨Sabata¨ trilogy directed by Frank Kramer or Gianfranco Parolini , the third is starred by Yul Brynner ) than here . These movies are enjoyable ,full of gadgets , imagination, with some budget and produced by Alberto Grimaldi ( successful producer of Leone's Dollars trilogy ) , here the producers are Menahem Golan and Yoran Globus ( Cannon Productions ) but in short budget.

The picture displays action , gun-play, showdown , and drama but badly narrated , besides with minimum budget and wasted casting . The movie has an awful cinematography and disappointing musical score . Jack Palance ( recently deceased ) as the leader band is excessive and exaggerated , as usual, he plays a megalomaniac nasty in an overdone playing . There appears Cody Palance , Jack Palance's son ( he has another daughter actress named Holly Palance too ) unhappily he early died . Richard Boone is underestimated in a minor role in spite of have a long career in classic Western . The singer Leif Garret as a dumb adolescent is mediocre , he played with Lee Van Cleef another spaghetti Western of similar style : ¨Kid vengeance¨ , being his maxim feat his acting as secondary in ¨ Outsiders ¨(Coppola) , later his career utterly failed . The motion picture is appalling directed by Gianfranco Parolini who used the pseudonym of Frank Kramer . Rating : Frustating , far fetching and uninspired Western .