Sabata (film)
Appearance
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Directed by | Gianfranco Parolini |
Written by | Renato Izzo Gianfranco Parolini |
Produced by | Alberto Grimaldi |
Starring | Lee Van Cleef William Berger |
Cinematography | Sandro Mancori |
Edited by | Edmond Lozzi |
Music by | Marcello Giombini |
Distributed by | MGM/UA |
Release dates | 1969 September 2, 1970 |
Running time | 111 min. |
Country | Italy |
Language | Italian |
Sabata (Italian: Ehi amico ... c'è Sabata, hai chiuso!, roughly translated as "Hey buddy ... it's Sabata, it's over now!"), is a 1969 Spaghetti Western directed by Gianfranco Parolini. It is the first film in The Sabata Trilogy by Parolini, and stars Lee Van Cleef as the title character.
Plot
Sabata, a man-of-few-words gunhand, arrives in a small Texas town to foil a bank robbery, and discovers that it was a plot by the town's leaders, who are sell the town to the railroad. Sabata blackmails the leader, Stengel, who then sends various thugs to try and kill him, among them a conflicted killer named Banjo, so named for the musical instrument he carries that conceals a rifle.
Cast
- Lee Van Cleef as Sabata
- William Berger as Banjo
- Ignazio Spalla as Carrincha
- Aldo Canti as Indio
- Franco Ressel as Stengel
- Antonio Gradoli as Ferguson
- Linda Veras as Jane
- Claudio Undari as Oswald
- Gianni Rizzo as Judge O'Hara