Day of Anger
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| Directed by | Tonino Valerii |
| Produced by | Alfonso Sansone Henryk Chrosicki |
| Screenplay by |
Ernesto Gastaldi Tonino Valerii Renzo Genta |
| Based on |
Der Tod ritt dienstags by Rolf Becker (as Ron Barker) |
| Starring |
Lee Van Cleef Giuliano Gemma Walter Rilla Christa Linder |
| Music by | Riz Ortolani |
| Cinematography | Enzo Serafin |
| Edited by | Franco Fraticelli |
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Sancrosiap
Corona Filmproduktion Divina-Film |
| Distributed by | Consorzio Italiano Distributori Indipendenti Film (CIDIF) |
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114 minutes |
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Day of Anger (Italian: I giorni dell'ira, lit. "The Days of Wrath"), also known in the UK as Blood and Grit and Gunlaw, is a 1967 Italian-German Spaghetti Western film directed and co-written by Tonino Valerii and starring Lee Van Cleef and Giuliano Gemma, and features a musical score by Riz Ortolani. The film credits the novel Der Tod ritt dienstags (Death Rode on Tuesdays) by Ron Barker (Rolf O. Becker) as its basis, although Valerii and screenwriter Ernesto Gastaldi have attested that this credit was primarily included to appease the West German co-producers, and that although some scenes are partially borrowed from it, the film is not an adaptation of Becker's novel.
Day of Anger was Valerii's second film, as well as his second Spaghetti Western, following Taste for Killing. Valerii went on to film his third Spaghetti Western, The Price of Power, also featuring Gemma, in 1969.
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