The Dirty Outlaws (1967)

An outlaw masquerades as the son of a blind man in order to find a cache of gold located in a vacated town.

Director:

Franco Rossetti

Writers:

Vincenzo Cerami, Ugo Guerra

Stars:

Andrea Giordana, Rosemary Dexter, Franco Giornelli

Cast

Complete credited cast:
Andrea Giordana	...	Steve (as Chip Gorman)
Rosemary Dexter	...	Katy (as Rosemarie Dexter)
Franco Giornelli	...	Asher
Dana Ghia	...	Lucy
Aldo Berti	...	Gionata
Giovanni Petrucci	...	Rico
John Bartha	...	Wallace
Giuseppe Castellano	...	One-armed Soldier (as Giuseppe Castellani)
Giorgio Gruden	...	Barman
Gianluigi Crescenzi	...	(as Gian Luigi Crescenzi)
Sandro Serafini
Piero Lulli	...	Sam

Storyline

The film tells the story of an outlaw who masquerades as a blind man's son in order to trick the old man out of a cache of gold located in a vacated town. A gang of bandits appears in the same town to rob a payroll coach that has to pass through and they take the blind man's gold as well, setting the desperado against the gang.

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Plot Keywords:

spaghetti western | gang | bandolero | town | glasses | 

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Taglines:

They dealt in violence and death!

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Genres:

Western

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Certificate:

R

Did You Know?

Trivia

Quentin Tarantino ranked this movie at 13 in his personal top 20 favorite Spaghetti Westerns.

User Reviews

The blind and the greedy

A man known as "Desperaaadooo" to his enemies and the singer of the title song, or simply Steve (Andrea Giordana, "Quella sporca storia nel west") to his friends, tries to make money outside the law at the end of the civil war. He stops at nothing, even stealing it from a blind man seems not to trouble him. Nevertheless, when that old man is killed, Desperado decides to avenge his death. Not only the presence of Piero Lulli (plays the blind man) reminds me of "Se sei vivo, spara". Just like Questi's masterpiece, "El Desperado" - directed by "Django", "Texas Addio" and "Preparati la bara" screenplay co-writer Rossetti - picks up the subject of everyone's obsessive greed that leads to self-destruction as well as moral decomposition. Even priests and judges can not be trusted in this movie. It's a dirty world, so the long torture/murder scene in the mud is apt. Regarding the tavern brawl scene in the middle of the movie, it is by no means a standard genre scene! Steve requires that fight so he can kill one of his enemies unnoticed, it is a deliberate part of his revenge plan! Also, there are little touches like the piano player beating up somebody who by mistake hit a chord on his instrument. Very well directed, thus it is a pity it remained Rossetti's only western.

Details

Country:

Italy Spain

Language:

Italian

Release Date:

June 1971 (USA)

Also Known As:

Big Ripoff

Filming Locations:

Desierto de Tabernas, Almería, Andalucía, Spain

Company Credits

Production Co:

Daiano Film, Leone Film

Technical Specs

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1