Desperado, El
From The Spaghetti Western Database
El desperado (Italy 1967 / Director: Franco Rossetti)
Also known as
The Dirty Outlaws (USA) | The Big Ripoff (USA, cut version) | Escondido (Spain) | El desesperado (Spain) | King of the West (UK) | Die im Staub verrecken (Germany) | Halleluja Escondido (Germany) | Escondido (Germany) | El desperado (France) | Massacre et le sang (France) | Le boue...le massacre...et le mort (France) | Sujos e Sem Lei (Brazil) | Texas desperados (Greece) | Modder, bloedbad en dood (Belgium) | O Amargo Sabor Da Vingança (Brazil) | さすらいのデスペラード Sasurai no Desperado DVD title (Japan)Synopsis
In this spaghetti western, set during the last days of the Civil War, an outlaw finds a dying Confederate officer. As the officer expires, he tells the outlaw about a cache of gold hidden in his blind father's home. The enterprising thief takes the dead man's clothes and tricks the father and his housekeeper into believing that he is the son. He is just about ready to begin looking for the gold when an outlaw gang comes to town and forces him to help them rob an army payroll wagon.
Credits
- Cast (Italian): Andrea Giordana (Steve 'El Desperado'), Rosemarie Dexter (Katy), Franco Giornelli (Asher, outlaw leader), Dana Ghia (Lucy), Aldo Berti (Jonathan / Gionata), Giovanni Petrucci (Rico, gold receiver), Pino Polidori (Jake, Asher outlaw), Andrea Scotti (Togo, Mexican outlaw), Dino Strano (Jim, outlaw), John Bartha (Wallace, gold receiver), Antonio Cantafora (Bill Flannigan), Giuseppe Castellano (gold delivery shotgun), Giorgio Gruden (bartender), Gianluigi Crescenzi [as G. Luigi Crescenzi], Sandro Serafini, Claudio Trionfi, Piero Lulli (Sam Flannigan)
- Uncredited actors: Osiride Pevarello (saloon piano player), Mario Ghignone (saloon loudmouth), Enrico Chiappafreddo (saloon brawler), Lina Franchi (woman in saloon), Omero Capanna (saloon customer), Angelo Boscariol (saloon customer), Remo Capitani (hanging rope holder), Fausto Beffa (hanging onlooker), Alba Maiolini (woman at hanging)
- Story: Ugo Guerra, Franco Rossetti
- Screenplay: Ugo Guerra, Franco Rossetti, Vincenzo Cerami
- Cinematography: Angelo Filippini [Technicolor - Techniscope 2,35:1]
- Assistant camera operator: Roberto Girometti
- Still photographer: Roberto Spagna
- Music: Gianni Ferrio
- Song: "The Desperado" sung by John Balfour
- Producers: Ugo Guerra, Elio Scardamaglia
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Trivia
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Versions and runtimes
- Runtime: 105 min
Release Dates
- September 30, 1967 (Italy)
Filming locations
- Almeria: Cabo de Gata
- Tabernas: Rambla del Cautivo
- Rome: Manziana
- La Sco / Rome (interiors)
External Links
- Review by 800 SW (Spain)