Sabata Aims to Kill ...and his gun does the rest!
Under the brutal rule of local garrison leader Colonel Skimmel and European tyranny, a group of Mexican revolutionaries hires gunslinger Sabata to rob a transport of Austrian gold to buy weapons. But Colonel Skimmel has other plans, taking the gold for himself and blaming the revolutionaries. But no scheming colonel is going to keep Sabata from earning his pay.
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- John Chardon TMDB · Jul 20197/10
Adiós Sabata, Hello Maximilian The First! Adiós, Sabata is directed by Gianfranco Parolini (AKA: Frank Kramer) and Parolini co-writes the screenplay with Renato Izzo. It stars Yul Brynner, Dean Reed, Ignazio Spalla, Gerard Herter, Pedro Sanchez, Joseph Persaud, Salvatore Borgese and Susan Scott. Music is by Bruno Nicolai and the Technicolor/Techniscope cinematography is by Sandro Mancori. The second of what would eventually be known as The Sabata Trilogy, we here have Brynner stepping into the shoes previously worn by Van Cleef. We are in Mexico under the self imposed rule of Emperor Maximilian I, and Sabata is hired by guerrilla leader Señor Ocaño to steal a wagonload of gold from the Austrian army. Unfortunately the gold has already been appropriated by Colonel Skimmel and so Sabata and his dubious cohorts set about stealing the gold back. This has all the good and bad hallmarks of Spaghetti Western film making, the action is outrageously entertaining, the weaponry and methods of death and destruction are enterprising, and the lead man is cool and quippy. Conversely it’s all very absurd and the plot is wafer thin – but Spaghetti Western fans kind of embrace these as virtues and h
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Cast
- Yul BrynnerSabata / Indio Black
- Dean ReedBallantine
- Ignazio SpallaEscudo
- Gérard HerterColonel Skimmel
- Sal BorgeseSeptiembre
- Franco FantasiaSeñor Ocaño
- Turam QuiboGitano, Revolutionary who does Flaminco dance of death
- Andrea ScottiJosé
- Nieves NavarroSaloon Dancer at Kingsville Texas
- Luciano CasamonicaJuanito, Village Boy
Crew
- Gianfranco ParoliniDirector
- Gianfranco ParoliniWriter
- Renato IzzoWriter
- Sandro MancoriDirector of Photography
- Bruno NicolaiOriginal Music Composer
- Gianfranco ParoliniEditor
- Alberto GrimaldiProducer
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