Revenge for Revenge

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Revenge for Revenge
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Directed byMario Colucci
Written byMario Colucci
Produced byNatalino Gullo
Starring John Ireland
Cinematography Giuseppe Aquari
Edited byEnzo Micarelli
Music by Angelo Francesco Lavagnino
Release date
  • 1968 (1968)
CountryItaly

Revenge for Revenge (Italian : Vendetta per vendetta), also known as Vengeance for Vengeance, is a 1968 Italian Spaghetti Western film written and directed by Mario Colucci and starring John Ireland.

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Plot

Cast

Production

The film had the working title Appuntamento di fuoco ('Fire date'). [1]

Reception

Rewieving the film, Italian critic Davide Pulici noted the striking non-conformist approach of the film, where "strangeness and dissimilarity [from the genre] are meticulously planned", with a significant amount of screen time devoted to sadism (particularly in a long sequence featuring 61 whip strokes on Chaliko, described by Pulici as "one of the genre's most extreme instances of sadistic representation") and homosexuality (subtly suggested in the dynamic between the Ireland and Lemmon characters, and explicit in the Scratuglia's portrayal of Jeb). [2] French critic Jean-Marie Sabatier, while describing the film as "mediocre", apprecciated "the astonishing psychological climate in which it immerses a very banal intrigue". [1]

References

  1. 1 2 Giusti, Marco (2007). "Vendetta per vendetta". Dizionario del western all'italiana. Mondadori. pp. 574–5. ISBN   978-88-04-57277-0.
  2. Pulici, Davide (December 2004). "Vendetta per vendetta". Nocturno Dossier. 31: 38.