They Call Me Hallelujah

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They Call Me Hallelujah
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Directed by Giuliano Carnimeo
Written byTito Carpi
Produced byDario Sabatello
Starring George Hilton
Charles Southwood
Cinematography Stelvio Massi
Music by Stelvio Cipriani
Release date
  • 1971 (1971)
Language Italian

They Call Me Hallelujah (Italian : Testa t'ammazzo, croce... sei morto - Mi chiamano Alleluja, also known as Guns for Dollars, Deep West and Heads I Kill You, Tails You're Dead! They Call Me Hallalujah) is a 1971 Italian Spaghetti Western film directed by Giuliano Carnimeo and starring George Hilton. [1] [2] The film spawned a 1972 sequel, Return of Hallelujah , also directed by Carnimeo and starring many of the same actors as in the original.

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Plot

In tumultuous Mexico in the 1860s a band of revolutionaries led by General Ramirez plan to use the jewelry in the possession of the oppressive governing forces to finance their armed struggle. They hire Hallelujah, an American gunfighter, to steal the jewelry for them. He succeeds, but the jewelry turns out to be fake. Hallelujah goes off in pursuit of the real jewels. Also after it is a mysterious nun, a flamboyant Russian nobleman, and assorted bandits, soldiers and townspeople.

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References

  1. ↑ Marco Giusti (2007). Dizionario del western all'italiana. Mondadori, 2007. ISBN   978-8804572770.
  2. ↑ Paolo Mereghetti. Il Mereghetti - Dizionario dei film. B.C. Dalai Editore, 2010. ISBN   8860736269.


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