A Pistol for Ringo
| A Pistol for Ringo | |
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Italian film poster
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| Directed by | Duccio Tessari |
| Produced by |
Luciano Ercoli Alberto Pugliese |
| Screenplay by | Duccio Tessari Uncredited: Alfonso Balcazar Fernando di Leo Enzo Dell'Aquila |
| Starring |
Montgomery Wood Fernando Sancho Hally Hammond Nieves Navarro Antonio Casas George Martin |
| Music by | Ennio Morricone |
| Cinematography | Francisco Marín |
| Edited by | Licia Quaglia |
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Produzioni Cinematografiche Mediterranee (PCM)
Balcázar Producciones Cinematográficas |
| Distributed by |
Cineriz (Italy) Embassy Pictures (US) |
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Release date
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Running time
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98 minutes |
| Country | Italy Spain |
| Language | Italian |
| Box office | 17,379,404 ₧ (ESP) |
A Pistol for Ringo (Italian: Una pistola per Ringo) is a 1965 Spaghetti Western, a joint Italian and Spanish production. Originally written and directed by Duccio Tessari, the film's success led to a sequel, The Return of Ringo, later that year.
The film stars Giuliano Gemma (billed as 'Montgomery Wood') alongside Fernando Sancho, Nieves Navarro, George Martin, Antonio Casas, José Manuel Martín and Hally Hammond.
The film opens as the films protagonist, a gunfighter known as "Angel Face" or Ringo, kills four men in a gunfight. He is then arrested for manslaughter and locked up in the city jail where he awaits trial.
Meanwhile, Major Clyde and his daughter Ruby are celebrating Christmas with several guests on their ranch. They are interrupted by a bandit gang who storm the hacienda and take them hostage. The bandits have narrowly escaped from a bank robbery in which their leader Sancho has been wounded. In a desperate attempt to deter their pursuers, they decide to hold the family hostage threatening to execute two a day until they are allowed to go free.
The house is surrounded by a posse led by the town sheriff, however he fears for the safety of the hostages, including his fiancee Ruby, if he attempts to free the hostage by force. He decides to enlist the aid of Ringo, who agrees to infiltrate the gang and free the hostages in exchange for his freedom and a percentage of the stolen money.
He manages to successfully join up with the gang, posing as a fellow outlaw on the run, however Ringo's plans quickly become complicated as Sancho begins ordering the execution of hostages as well as the tension within the house as Delores, Sancho's woman, encourages Major Clyde's romantic feelings while one of Sancho's men begins making advances towards Major Clyde's daughter, Ruby. He at first seems to double-cross the sheriff, however he succeeds in deceiving Sancho and allows the sheriff and his posse to storm the hacienda freeing the hostages and defeating Sancho and his bandits.
Encouraged by the success of Sergio Leone's Fistful of Dollars the previous year, which he had helped write, Duccio Tessari decided to produce his own western. A well-known screenwriter of horror and "sword-and-sandal" films, he had previously worked with several Spaghetti Western directors, most notably "the two Sergios", as the co-writer of Sergio Leone's The Colossus of Rhodes (1960) and Sergio Corbucci's Romulus and Remus (1961).
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