Rent A Pistol for Ringo / The Return of Ringo (1965)
3.5 of 5 from 55 ratings
3h 15min
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- Synopsis:
Directed by skilled craftsman Duccio Tessari (The Bloodstained Butterfly, Death Occurred Last Night), the original Ringo films represent a high-water mark in the annals of the spaghetti western genre, introducing an iconic hero and boasting gripping set-pieces with unforgettable musical scoring by Ennio Morricone. Giuliano Gemma stars in the titular role in 'A Pistol for Ringo', which sees our clean-cut hero infiltrate a ranch of Mexican bandits to save a beautiful hostage (Lorella de Luca). In 'The Return of Ringo' the gunslinger, now a veteran of war, disguises himself as a Mexican in order to take revenge on outlaws who have stolen his property and taken his wife. Hugely successful upon their original release, Tessari's films spawned numerous unofficial sequels and proved influential on the emerging genre. - Actors:
- Giuliano Gemma, Fernando Sancho, Lorella De Luca, Nieves Navarro, Antonio Casas, José Manuel Martín, Manuel Muñiz, Juan Cazalilla, Pablito Alonso, Nazzareno Zamperla, Francisco Sanz, Jose Halufi, George Martin, Francisco Gabarre, Alfonso Alcantara, Miguel Pedregosa, Carlos Ronda, Duccio Tessari, Juan Torres, Mónica Sugranes
- Directors:
- Duccio Tessari
- Producers:
- Luciano Ercoli, Alberto Pugliese
- Voiced By:
- Marc Smith
- Writers:
- Alfonso Balcázar, Duccio Tessari, Fernando Di Leo
- Aka:
- Una pistola per Ringo / Il ritorno di Ringo
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure, Classics, Drama, Romance
- Countries:
- Italy
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 19/03/2018
- Run Time:
- 199 minutes
- Languages:
- English Dolby Digital 1.0, English LPCM Mono, Italian Dolby Digital 1.0, Italian LPCM Mono
- Subtitles:
- English, English Hard of Hearing
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 2.35:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Audio commentaries for both films by spaghetti western experts C. Courtney Joyner and Henry C. Parke
- They Called Him Ringo, an archival featurette with star Giuliano Gemma
- A Western Greek Tragedy, an archival featurette with Lorella de Luca and camera operator Sergio D'Offizi
- Revisiting Ringo, a new video interview with critic and Ringo fan Tony Rayns
- Gallery of original promotional images from the Mike Siegal Archive
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Cracking - A Pistol for Ringo / The Return of Ringo review by sb
FILM & REVIEW Cracking early Spaghetti Western has Gemma as the Angel Faced killer in jail after his latest self-defence shooting. While there the local bank is robbed and the town is shot up while the bandits escape to a nearby villa where the Sheriffs fiancé lives with her Father so a full on assault is out off the question. For a share in the reward money Ringo agrees to pretend to help the bandits to escape playing each off against each other.To complicate things the fiancée’s father takes up with the main bandits woman (Navarro) while his impeccable manners keeps the more bestial elements in the gang at bay. Ringo uses all manner of tricks and subterfuges to keep the bandits off balance whole plotting their eventual demise. It mixes loads of action with a nice line in comedy with mass gunfights, shoot-outs and brawls to keep to it boiling nicely. Spanish actor Sancho is terrific as the fat wily bandit with 2 strong female leads to add to the mix……it spawned the usual endless copies but this is the original and best - 4/5
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