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Se sei vivo spara (1967)

Country of Origin: Spain / Italy
Year of Production: 1967
Running Times: 90 mins (UK)     100 mins (USA)     117 mins
Length:
Format: 35mm     Techniscope
Colour Format: Eastmancolor
Ratio: 2.35:1
Sound: mono

CREDITS

PRODUCTION
Production Companies: GIA Società Cinematografica / Hispamer Films P.C.
Produced by: Giulio Questi
Production Supervisor: Alex J. Rascal
Production Managers: Ángel Roson, Renato De Pasqualis

SCRIPT
Script: Franco Arcalli, María del Carmen, Martínez Román, Giulio Questi
Story: Franco Arcalli, María del Carmen, Martínez Román, Giulio Questi
From an Idea by: María del Carmen, Martínez Román,
Assistant Writer: Benedetto Benedetti

DIRECTION
Directed by: Giulio Questi

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Franco Delli Colli
Camera Operator: Riccardo Poblete
2nd Unit Camera Operator: Roberto Marrama
Assistant Camera: Fernando Gallandt, Santiago Zuazo
Labs: Fotofilm S.A., Madrid, Spain; Tecnostampa, Roma, Italy

EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Editor: Franco Arcalli

MUSIC
Music: Ivan Vandor

SOUND
Sound Engineer: Goffredo Salvatori
Sound Effects Montage: Aurelio Pennacchia

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Enzo Baraldi, Adela del Pino
Hair: Lina Cassini, María Sánchez Gadeo

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Set Designer: Enzo Bulgarelli
Art Directors: José Luis Galicia, Jaime Pérez Cubero

MISCELLANEOUS
Continuity: Marisol de Villanueva

LOCATIONS
Locations: Madrid, Spain
Studios: Elios Studios, Rome, Lazio, Italy; Estudios Roma, Madrid, Spain

CAST
Tomas Milian (the stranger)
Raymond Lovelock (Evan)
Piero Lulli (Oaks)
Milo Quesada (Templer)
Roberto Camardiel (Mr Sorrow)
Miguel Serrano
Ángel Silva
Félix Sancho Gracia (Willy)
Marilù Tolo (Lori)
Mirella Pamfili
Paco Sanz (real name: Francisco Sanz) (Hagerman)
Patrizia Valturri (Elizabeth)

PLOT SUMMARY

Mexican outlaw Django and his gang carry off a bullion robbery but Django is betrayed by the American members of the gang and left for dead. But Django crawls from his shallow grave and sets out to get his revenge.

AVAILABILITY

Australia
DVD Distributors: Stomp Visual

Spain
Theatrical Distributors: CEPICSA
DVD Distributors: Divisa Home Video

UK
DVD Distributors: Argent Films Ltd.

USA
DVD Distributors: Blue Underground

CENSORSHIP HISTORY

Australia
Rating: MA

Finland
Rating: banned in 1968

Iceland
Rating: 16

Spain
Rating: 18

UK
Rating: X; 15

TIMELINE

1968
March

11: Denmark – theatrical release

2004
April

27: USA - DVD release (Blue Underground)

October
25: USA – DVD release (Argent Films Ltd.)

ALTERNATIVE TITLES

Django - tappaja - Finnish title
Django, Kill... If You Live, Shoot!
Oro hondo
– Italian video title
Oro maldito – Spanish title
Tire encore si tu peux - French title
Töte, Django - West German title

KEYWORDS

allegories, bats, cowboys, crucifixions, deserts, gold, hallucinations, lizards, parrots, revenge, scalping, spaghetti western, surrealism, torture

 


Last Updated: 15 October, 2008

 


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