Cemetery Without Crosses
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| Directed by | Robert Hossein |
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| Music by | André Hossein |
| Cinematography | Henri Persin |
| Edited by | Marie-Sophie Dubus |
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| Distributed by | Les Films Fernand Rivers (France) Euro International Film (Italy) |
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| Language | Italian French English |
| Box office | 923,772 admissions (France) |
Cemetery Without Crosses (French: Une corde... un Colt..., Italian: Cimitero senza croci), also known as The Rope and the Colt, is a 1969 French-Italian Spaghetti Western film by Robert Hossein, its director, co-screenwriter and star.
Will Rogers, the despotic patriarch of a wealthy cattle ranching family, forces the sheep farming Caine brothers - Ben, Thomas, and Eli - to sell off their land. In retaliation, the Caines steal a shipment of gold coins intended for the Rogers; during their escape, Ben is wounded. Thomas and Eli ride to their ranch, while Ben, upon returning to his home, is ambushed by the Rogers and lynched as his wife, Maria, is forced by Will's sons to watch. The Rogers then ride to Thomas and Eli's ranch and burn down their house. The brothers ride to Maria's home to find her burying her husband, give her a third-share of the stolen money, and suggest that they leave for Mexico.
Driven by revenge, Maria take the money to a ghost town surrounded by dunes, where she meets its lone inhabitant, Manuel. A gunfighter with a fetishistic habit of wearing a black leather glove in duels, Manuel had once shared a polyamorous relationship with Maria and Ben, but he left the pair to marry in order to suppress his violent nature. Maria asks him to avenge Ben on her behalf - although reluctant and sceptical, Manuel accepts her offer.
Manuel rides to a nearby town and stays at a hotel that Will's sons frequent. In the local saloon, vigilantes from the rival Vallee family confront and attack the Rogers brothers in an attempt to run them out of town. Manuel kills the Vallees, and is quickly arrested. The next morning, the Rogers brothers bribe the sheriff into releasing Manuel, and take him to their family's ranch. Thankful for saving his sons, Will provides Manuel a job as the ranch's foreman. That night, Manuel dines with the Rogers and their ranch hands, during which he opens a jar of mustard to find a jack-in-the-box, resulting in both dinner tables erupting with laughter as they accept him as their friend.
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