Adiós, Sabata

Adiós, Sabata
	Italian film poster
Directed by	Gianfranco Parolini
Produced by	Alberto Grimaldi[1]
Screenplay by	Renato Izzo; Gianfranco Parolini[2];
Story by	Renato Izzo; Gianfranco Parolini[2];
Starring	Yul Brynner; Dean Reed; Ignazio Spalla; Turam Quibo; Nieves Navarro; Gianni Rizzo;
Music by	Bruno Nicolai[2]
Cinematography	Sandro Mancori[2]
Edited by	Gianfranco Parolini[2]
Production; company	Produzioni Europee Associati[2]
Distributed by	Produzioni Europee Associati (Italy)[2]; United Artists (International)[1];
Release date	1970;
Country	Italy[3]

Adiós, Sabata (Italian: Indio Black, sai che ti dico: Sei un gran figlio di..., lit. "Indio Black, you know what I'm going to tell you... You're a big son of a...") is a 1970 Italian Spaghetti Western film directed by Gianfranco Parolini. It is the second film in The Sabata Trilogy by Parolini. Yul Brynner takes over the lead role from Lee Van Cleef, who stars in the first and third films.[4]

Plot

Set in Mexico under the rule of Emperor Maximilian I, Sabata is hired by the guerrilla leader Señor Ocaño to steal a wagonload of gold from the Austrian army. However, when Sabata and his partners Escudo and Ballantine obtain the wagon, they find it is not full of gold but of sand, and that the gold was taken by Austrian Colonel Skimmel. So Sabata plans to steal back the gold.

Cast

Yul Brynner as Sabata/Indio Black
Dean Reed as Ballantine
Ignazio Spalla as Escudo
Gérard Herter as Colonel Skimmel
Sal Borgese as Septiembre
Franco Fantasia as Señor Ocaño
Turam Quibo (as Joseph P. Persaud) as Gitano
Andrea Scotti as José
Nieves Navarro (as Susan Scott) as Saloon Dancer
Gianni Rizzo as Folgen
Salvatore Billa as Manuel
Massimo Carocci as Juan de los Angeles
Omar Bonaro as Jesus
Luciano Casamonica as Juanito
Vittorio Fanfoni as barman
Bruno Corazzari as Hertz

Release

Adiós, Sabata was first released in 1970.[3]

Reception

In contemporary reviews, Tom Milne of the Monthly Film Bulletin reviewed a dubbed version of the film.[5] Milne found that "the rather routine proceedings are enlivened from time to time by ingeniously macabre details like the model ship firing from all guns with which Skimmel executes informers, or the "flamenco of death" (spurs glittering ominously on drumming heels) with which Gitano announced the ent of enemies of the revolution."[5] Milne commented on "it is a pity that so much of the action is clogged up by that old stand-by of the Italian Western-extras falling off roofs in graceful death-falls. This time the supply of cannon-fodder destined for identical deaths is apparently inexhaustible."[5]

References

Hughes 2004, p. 226.
"Indio-Black: sai che ti dico? Sei un gran figlio di..." (in Italian). Archviodelcinemaitaliano.it. Retrieved September 19, 2018.
Grant 2011, p. 453.
Hughes, p.113
Milne, Tom (March 1973). "Indio Black, Sai Che Ti Dico: Sei un Gran Figlio di... (The Bounty Hunters)". Monthly Film Bulletin. Vol. 40 no. 470. British Film Institute. p. 52.

Sources

Grant, Kevin (2011). Any Gun Can Play. Fab Press. ISBN 9781903254615.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
Hughes, Howard (2004). Once Upon a Time in the Italian West. I. B. Tauris. ISBN 1-85043-430-1.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
Hughes, Howard (2010). Spaghetti Westerns. Harpenden: Kamera Books. ISBN 978-1-84243-303-4.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

External links

Adiós, Sabata at IMDb
Adiós, Sabata at AllMovie

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[FOOTNOTEHughes2004226-1] Hughes 2004, p. 226.

[archiv-2] "Indio-Black: sai che ti dico? Sei un gran figlio di..." (in Italian). Archviodelcinemaitaliano.it. Retrieved September 19, 2018.

[FOOTNOTEGrant2011453-3] Grant 2011, p. 453.

[4] Hughes, p.113

[mfb-5] Milne, Tom (March 1973). "Indio Black, Sai Che Ti Dico: Sei un Gran Figlio di... (The Bounty Hunters)". Monthly Film Bulletin. Vol. 40 no. 470. British Film Institute. p. 52.