The man with gunsight eyes comes to kill!
Several pillars of society have robbed an Army safe containing $100,000 so they can buy the land upon which the coming railroad will be built. But they haven't reckoned on the presence of the master gunslinger, Sabata.
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Unpretentious, cool, effortless and classical in form.
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Feb 20267/10
This isn’t so much a spaghetti western as a ravioli one. It’s full of lots of individually wrapped escapades that allow Lee Van Cleef to don his black suit and play a lovely game of cat and mouse with some quite shrewd townsfolk. It all starts when the army deposit $100,000 in the town’s bank. Barely half an hour after it is locked up for the night, the safe is on the back of a wagon heading out into the desert. Unluckily for the thieves, “Sabata” (LVC) stops them in their tracks and rather curiously repatriates the cash with it’s owners. Why? Well he concludes that there is a much more fun way to make his money as he decides to complement his army reward with a bit of good old-fashioned extortion. You see, he knows that it was some of the place’s grandees behind the crime, and that they were hoping to use the cash to buy land that they knew would be needed for the approaching railroad. Led by the wily “Stengel” (Spartaco Conversi) they naturally don’t want to pay, so they hire the enigmatic “Banjo” (William Berger) to even the odds. Thing is, is he good enough and just as importantly, whose side is he really on? Though the overarching plot here is all fairly familiar, and predicta
Read the whole review on TMDB - John Chardon TMDB · Jun 20197/10
He's the man with the gunsight eyes! Sabata is directed by Gianfranco Parolini (AKA: Frank Kramer) and Parolini co-writes the screenplay with Renato Izzo. It stars Lee Van Cleef, William Berger, Ignazio Spalla, Aldo Canti, Franco Ressel and Antonio Gradoli. Music is by Marcello Giombini and the Technicope/technicolor cinematography is by Sadro Mancori. Ace marksman Sabata (Cleef) teams up with a banjo-playing drifter and a Mexican tramp to foil the town leaders of Daugherty, Texas, who want to steal $100,000 from their own bank to buy land that the approaching railroad will cross. The first of what would become a trilogy of films featuring the character of Sabata, picture is a whole bunch of high energy action and cool fun. First off the character himself is easy to warm to, where in Cleef's genre perfect hands Sabata is the guy you want on your side. Smartly attired in black suit and hattage, he can shoot the leg of the chair from underneath you, blast your dice off of the craps table, hell he can even toss a silver dollar through the air to feed the jukebox. He's supremely confidant and can even be seen to leaping off of buildings and landing perfectly on his feet ready to take a
Read the whole review on TMDB - Wuchakon TMDB · Mar 20185/10
Spaghetti Western with Lee Van Cleef in the mold of Sergio Leone’s Man with No Name trilogy. RELEASED IN 1969 and directed by Gianfranco Parolini, “Sabata” chronicles events in a west Texas town when a black-clad gunfighter named Sabata (Lee Van Cleef) teams-up with an alcoholic ex-soldier named Carrincha (Ignazio Spalla) and an acrobatic Indian (Bruno Ukmar) to thwart the town leaders (Antonio Gradoli & Gianni Rizzo) who want to steal $100,000 from their own bank to purchase land that the encroaching railroad will cross. William Berger plays a minstrel of dubious loyalties while Franco Ressel is on hand as the effeminate heavy. Linda Veras appears as the stock saloon babe. This was the first of the official Sabata trilogy released in 1969-1971. There were four other Sabata films released in 1970-1972, but they were considered unofficial imitations. The only other Sabata flick I’ve seen is the third imitation one, "Dig Your Grave, Friend... Sabata's Coming,” with Raf Baldassarre in the eponymous role. While that one lacked Van Cleef, the story is more compelling than this debut. “Sabata” starts promisingly enough with a colorful cast of characters and an innovative bank robbery, bu
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Cast
- Lee Van CleefSabata
- William BergerBanjo
- Ignazio SpallaCarrincha
- Aldo CantiIndio
- Franco ResselStengel
- Antonio GradoliFerguson
- Linda VerasJane
- Claudio UndariOswald
- Gianni RizzoJudge O'Hara
- Spartaco ConversiSlim
Crew
- Gianfranco ParoliniDirector
- Gianfranco ParoliniScreenplay
- Renato IzzoScreenplay
- Sandro MancoriDirector of Photography
- Marcello GiombiniOriginal Music Composer
- Edmondo LozziEditor
- Alberto GrimaldiProducer
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