Long Days of Vengeance

Long Days of Vengeance
Long Days of Vengeance
Directed by	Florestano Vancini
Screenplay by	Fernando Di Leo; Augusto Caminito;
Story by	Mahnahen Velasco
Starring	Giuliano Gemma; Francisco Rabal; Conrado Sanmartin;
Cinematography	Francisco Marin
Edited by	Angeles Prufia
Music by	Armando Trovajoli
Production; companies	*Produzioni Cinematografiche Mediterranee - P.C.M.; P.C. Mingyar; Rome-Paris Films;
Distributed by	I.F.C. - International Film Company
Release date	1967;
Countries	Italy; Spain;

Long Days of Vengeance (Italian: I lunghi giorni della vendetta is a 1967 Western film directed by Florestano Vancini. It is the only western directed by Vancini, here credited as Stan Vance.^[3] The film is a Spaghetti Western version of Alexandre Dumas' novel The Count of Monte Cristo.^[3]

Plot

Ted Barnett escapes from prison and returns to his home town to prove that he did not commit murder and also find the man who murdered his father. To do this he must disclose the respected landowner Cobb as a smuggler.

Cast

Giuliano Gemma as Ted Barnett
Francisco Rabal as Sheriff Douglas
Gabriella Giorgelli as Dulcie
Conrado San Martín as Cobb
Nieves Navarro as Dolly
Doro Corrà as Morgan
Milo Quesada as Gomez

Release

Long Days of Vengeance was released in 1967.^[2] It has also been released as The Deadliest Gun Fight.^[2]

Reception

In his investigation of narrative structures in Spaghetti Western films, Fridlund groups this film with some other successful westerns where the Giuliano Gemma character is falsely accused and seeks vindication. What sets I lunghi giorni della vendetta apart is its skillful play with ironic humour and surprises.^[4]

References

Footnotes

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g "Lunghi giorni della vendetta (1967)" (in Italian). Archiviodelcinemaitaliano.it. Retrieved 22 September 2019.
^ ^a ^b ^c Grant 2011, p. 446.
^ ^a ^b Marco Giusti (2007). Dizionario del western all'italiana. Mondadori, 2007. ISBN 978-88-04-57277-0.
^ Fridlund, Bert: The Spaghetti Western. A Thematic Analysis. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company Inc., 2006 pp. 113-8.

Sources

Grant, Kevin (2011). Any Gun Can Play. Fab Press. ISBN 9781903254615.

External links

Long Days of Vengeance at IMDb

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[archiv-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g "Lunghi giorni della vendetta (1967)" (in Italian). Archiviodelcinemaitaliano.it. Retrieved 22 September 2019.

[FOOTNOTEGrant2011446-2] Grant 2011, p. 446.

[sed-3] Marco Giusti (2007). Dizionario del western all'italiana. Mondadori, 2007. ISBN 978-88-04-57277-0.

[4] Fridlund, Bert: The Spaghetti Western. A Thematic Analysis. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company Inc., 2006 pp. 113-8.

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