John the Bastard (film)

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John the Bastard
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Directed by Armando Crispino
Written byArmando Crispino
Lucio Battistrada
Produced byFrancesco & Vincenzo Genesi
Starring John Richardson
Claudio Camaso
Martine Beswick
Luisa Della Noce
Claudio Gora
Furio Meniconi
Gia Sandri
Nadia Scarpitta
Patrizia Valturri
Glauco Onorato
Gordon Mitchell
CinematographySante Achilli
Edited by Franco Fraticelli
Music by Nico Fidenco
Release date
  • 1967 (1967)
LanguagesItalian
English

John the Bastard (Italian : John il bastardo) is a 1967 Italian Spaghetti Western film written and directed by Armando Crispino and starring John Richardson. [1] [2] [3]

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Plot

John is the illegitimate son of a wealthy landowner. He decides to take revenge for the disinterest that his father has always shown towards him. He becomes the lover of his stepbrother's wife and when he challenges him to a duel he kills him. The woman commits suicide and John, satisfied, continues his cynical existence until the relatives of other women seduced by him try to kill him.

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References

  1. Marco Giusti (2007). Dizionario del western all'italiana. Mondadori, 2007. ISBN   978-88-04-57277-0.
  2. Roberto Chiti; Roberto Poppi; Enrico Lancia; Mario Pecorari (1991). Dizionario del cinema italiano. I film. Gremese Editore, 1992. ISBN   8876055932.
  3. Thomas Weisser (22 August 2005). Spaghetti Westerns: the Good, the Bad and the Violent. McFarland, 2005. ISBN   0786424427.