Texas, Adios (1966)

A Texan sheriff and his younger brother travel across the border into Mexico to confront the man who killed their father.

Director:

Ferdinando Baldi (as Fernando Baldi)

Writers:

Ferdinando Baldi (story), Franco Rossetti (story)

Stars:

Franco Nero, Alberto Dell'Acqua, Elisa Montés

Cast

Cast overview:
Franco Nero	...	Burt Sullivan
Alberto Dell'Acqua	...	Jim Sullivan (as Cole Kitosch)
Elisa Montés	...	Mulatta Girl (as Elisa Montes)
José Guardiola	...	McLeod
Livio Lorenzon	...	Alcalde Miguel
Hugo Blanco	...	Pedro
Luigi Pistilli	...	Hernandez
Antonella Murgia	...	Burt's Mother
Gino Pernice	...	Bank Employee
Giovanni Ivan Scratuglia	...	Dick (as Ivan Scratuglia)
Silvana Bacci	...	Paquita - Barmaid
Remo De Angelis	...	Juan - Delgado Henchman
Mario Novelli	...	Bounty Hunter
José Suárez	...	Cisco Delgado (as José Suarez)

Storyline

The tough gun-man Burt Sullivan (Franco Nero) leaves his job as a town sheriff to go to Mexico to find the man, Cisco, who killed his father many years ago. He and his younger brother arrive in a small town where everybody is afraid of Cisco who has become the local landowner. But there is a secret. It turns out that Cisco is the father of Burt's younger brother and Cisco are craving for respect from his "son". Burt Sullivan joins forces with the local townspeople to stop and bring Cisco back to his punishment in Texas.

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Plot Keywords:

spaghetti western | horseback riding | u.s. mexico border | murder | horse | 

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Genres:

Action | Western

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Details

Country:

Italy Spain

Language:

Italian

Release Date:

28 August 1966 (Italy)

Also Known As:

Texas, Adios

Filming Locations:

Cabo de Gata, Almería, Andalucía, Spain

Company Credits

Production Co:

B.R.C. Produzione S.r.l., Estela Films

Technical Specs

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor) (uncredited)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Shot in April and May of 1966.

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Connections

References Return of the Seven (1966)

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Soundtracks

Texas, Addio
Written by Don Powell (as Powell) and Antón García Abril (as Abril)
Performed by Don Powell
Recorded by Parade Records

User Reviews

Django Goes To Texas

These days you forget what a name Nero was in the Sixties and Seventies. In 1966, the former army grunt turned physical actor starred in three westerns within six months - Django, Massacre Time and Texas Adios - before heading to Hollywood for a supporting role in Camelot, and then international stardom. It was as Django, however, that turned him into a major star in Europe; Nero as the steel-eyed Angel of Death dragging a coffin behind him personified the fashionable neo-nihilism of the Italian western and made him as iconic as the Kings of the Squint, Clint Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef.

Texas Adios, released in 1966, was a much more deliberately American western. Franco Nero is a clear-cut moral figure as Burt Sullivan, sheriff in a Texas town who takes his younger womanizing brother Jim across the border to find their father's killer, the mysterious "Delgado". It's Adios Texas and Hola Mexico, but the country they find is more hostile than Burt imagined. It's a lawless landscape where no-one can be trusted, controlled by morally bankrupt power brokers and would-be revolutionaries, and Delgado turns out to be the most powerful land baron in Mexico who likes to play with his captives before executing them. What begins as a simple quest for revenge becomes much more ambiguous as the plot unfolds and family secrets are revealed.

Like all great Italian westerns, Texas Adios is beautifully shot by Enzo Barboni, who as "EB Clutcher" would later create his own sub-genre of Trinity movies with Terence Hill and Bud Spencer. And, despite its allusions to the classic models of Gary Cooper and Jimmy Stewart, it's a spaghetti western at heart, and its heart is cold and cruel. "Are you tired of living (pronounced 'leeeeving')?" asks Delgado's greasy right hand man, and the answer seems to be a resounding yes: sympathetic characters are disposed of with little fanfare, and Nero's idealistic younger brother Jim played by Alberto Dell'Acqua is taught that becoming a man means becoming immune to killing.

Me, I'm already numb to the wholesale slaughter, and you will be too, as we ride the blood-soaked plains in Texas Adios.