Il pistolero segnato da Dio

1968 film

Augusto Finocchi
Remigio Del Grosso^[1]

Story by

Augusto Finocchi
Giorgio Ferroni^[1]

Starring

Anthony Steffen
Richard Stapley
Luisa Baratto
Giovanni Cianfriglia

CinematographySandro Mancori^[1]Edited byGiorgio Ferroni^[1]Music byCarlo Rustichelli^[1]

Production
company

G.V. Cinematografica^[1]

Release date

29 February 1968 (1968-02-29) (Italy)

CountryItalyLanguageItalian

Il pistolero segnato da Dio (transl. A Gunfighter Sent by God) is a 1968 Italian Spaghetti Western film directed by Giorgio Ferroni and starring Anthony Steffen.^[2]^{[page needed]}^[3]^{[page needed]}

Plot

Cast

Anthony Steffen as Roy Kerry
Richard Wyler as Coleman
Ken Wood as Owl Roy
Liz Barret as Maggie
Andrea Bosic as Jonathan Murphy
Tom Felleghy as Bludy
Gia Sandri as Dora
Ennio Balbo as Thomas Claridge
Rina Franchetti as Miss Claridge
Nello Pazzafini
Benito Stefanelli

Production

Ferroni directed Il pistolero segnato da dio under the name he used for Westerns, Calvin Jackson Padget.^[4] It was filmed at Elios Studios and on location in Rome.^[4] Richard Stapley spoke about the film, stating that his agents told him Ferroni was a "first-class director", whom he would "have a great time working with him."^[5] Stapley recalled that he was furious with the director, as he was cast as "the baddie, which was not the most important part. I had never played a baddie before, but he told me that I would enjoy it, it's always more fun to play the villain."^[5] Stapley described the film a having a moderate budget and a considerably longer shooting schedule, recalling that it lasted over six weeks.^[5]

In a 1996 interview with journalist Robert Monell, Stapley revealed that Mario Bava partially worked as a cinematographer on Il pistolero segnato da dio, although Sandro Mancori is credited as the film's sole director of photography. Mancori had worked with Bava anonymously on earlier productions.^[4]

Release

Il pistolero segnato da dio was released on February 29, 1968, where it was distributed to Augustus.^[4] The film was later re-issued in Italy as Due pistole e un vigliacco.^[4]

As of 2013, Il pistolero segnato da Dio was never released in the United States and no English-language version of the film is known to exist.^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "Il pistolero segnato da Dio (1968)" (in Italian). Archvio del cinema italiano. Retrieved May 8, 2020.
^ Marco Giusti (2007). Dizionario del western all'italiana. Mondadori, 2007. ISBN 978-88-04-57277-0.
^ Roberto Poppi, Mario Pecorari. Dizionario del cinema italiano. I film. Gremese Editore, 2007. ISBN 8884405033.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Lucas 2013, p. 758.
^ ^a ^b ^c Lucas 2013, p. 761.