The Ugly Ones
1966 film
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The Ugly Ones (es: El precio de un hombre, lit. "The Price of a Man", it: The Bounty Killer, later La morte ti segue... ma non ha fretta, lit. "Death follows you... but not in a hurry") is a 1966 Spanish-Italian spaghetti Western film directed by Eugenio Martín.[1]
- James Donald Prindle
- José Gutiérrez Maesso
- Eugenio Martín
- José Gutiérrez Maesso
- Lilian Biancini
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| Directed by | Eugenio Martín |
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| Cinematography | Enzo Barboni |
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| Music by | Stelvio Cipriani |
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Running time | 95 minutes |
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The film marked the debut of Tomas Milian in the western genre[2] and was the first film score of composer Stelvio Cipriani. It was also the first Spanish western to receive a state funding for the "artistic interest of the work".[2] The film was based on the 1958 novel The Bounty Killer by Marvin H. Albert.
It was shown as part of a retrospective on Spaghetti Western at the 64th Venice International Film Festival.[3] On October 11, 2017 Eugenio Martín was honored for the fiftieth anniversary of this at the 7º Almería Western Film Festival.[4][5]
Plot
The notorious bounty hunter, Luke Chilson, pursues Mexican fugitive Jose Gomez. He follows him through the desert and arrives in a Mexican village where Gomez manages to turn the peasants against his pursuer. Unaware of the danger, Chilson finds himself trapped.
Cast
- Richard Wyler as Luke Chilson
- Tomas Milian as José Gómez
- Ella Karin as Eden
- Mario Brega as Miguel
- Glenn Foster as Novak
- Hugo Blanco
- Luis Barboo
- Lola Gaos as Ruth Harman
- Ricardo Canales as Joe Harmon
- Manuel Zarzo as Marty Hefner
- Tito García as Zacarías
- Antonio Iranzo as Antonio
- Fernando Sánchez Polack as Doc, Gomez henchman
- Saturno Cerra as Gomez Henchman
- Augusto Pesarini as Gomez Henchman
- José Canalejas as Juan Valdez
- Goyo Lebrero as Cajero
- Enrique Navarro as Manuel, wagon driver
- Rafael Vaquero as the sheriff of Bisbee
- Gonzalo Esquiroz as Bill, the shotgun messenger
- Ricardo Palacios as the waystation attendant
- Antonio Cintado as Max, the escort guard
- Chiro Bermejo as Dade, the hed escort guard
- Frank Braña as Wade Dempsey
- Gene Collins as a gang member