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Lee Van Cleef plays a gunfighter who aids an innocent man accused of killing the leader of a powerful US frontier clan.
1972
English
Western
Cast & Crew
Lee Van Cleef
(Actor)
.. Clayton
Marc Mazza
(Actor)
.. Eli Saxon
Jess Hahn
(Actor)
Horst Frank
(Actor)
.. Saxon
Alberto Dentice
(Actor)
Klaus Grünberg
(Actor)
Dominique Darel
(Actor)
Alessandra Cardini
(Actor)
Gastone Pescucci
(Actor)
Elvira Cortese
(Actor)
Anna Maria Gherardi
(Actor)
Hans Terofal
(Actor)
Mimmo Rizzo
(Actor)
Giovanni Filidoro
(Actor)
Antonio Casale
(Actor)
.. Hole the Bounty Hunter
Memè Perlini
(Actor)
.. Saxon's Henchman
Giancarlo Badessi
(Actor)
.. Publican with eye patch
Luigi Antonio Guerra
(Actor)
Maria Teresa Piaggio
(Actor)
Vittorio Sancisi
(Actor)
Giorgio Trestini
(Actor)
.. Bull
Peter O'Brien
(Actor)
.. Newland
Marcel Iures
(Actor)
More Information
Did You Know..
Lee Van Cleef
(Actor)
.. Clayton
Born:
January 09, 1925
Died: December 14, 1989
Died: December 14, 1989
Trivia:
Following a wartime tour with the Navy, New Jersey-born Lee Van Cleef supported himself as an accountant. Like fellow accountant-turned-actor Jack Elam, Van Cleef was advised by his clients that he had just the right satanic facial features to thrive as a movie villain. With such rare exceptions as The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms (1954), Van Cleef spent most of his early screen career on the wrong side of the law, menacing everyone from Gary Cooper (High Noon) to the Bowery Boys (Private Eyes) with his cold, shark-eyed stare. Van Cleef left Hollywood in the '60s to appear in European spaghetti Westerns, initially as a secondary actor; he was, for example, the "Bad" in Clint Eastwood's The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966). Within a few years, Van Cleef was starring in blood-spattered action films with such titles as Day of Anger (1967), El Condor (1970), and Mean Frank and Crazy Tony (1975). The actor was, for many years, one of the international film scene's biggest box-office draws. Returning to Hollywood in the late '70s, He starred in a very short-lived martial arts TV series The Master (1984), the pilot episodes of which were pieced together into an ersatz feature film for video rental. Van Cleef died of a heart attack in 1989.
Marc Mazza
(Actor)
.. Eli Saxon
Born:
April 18, 1938
Jess Hahn
(Actor)
Born:
October 29, 1921
Trivia:
A character actor in international films, Jess Hahn first appeared onscreen in the '50s.
Horst Frank
(Actor)
.. Saxon
Born:
May 28, 1929
Trivia:
Few of German actor Horst Frank's films made the crossing to American audiences--and when they did, the English-language dubbing made an assessment of Frank's talents quite difficult. The actor was most familiar to horror fans for his appearance as transplant-happy Dr. Ood in the cheap German horror flick The Head (1959). In the mid '60s, several of Frank's European-filmed westerns gained brief American TV exposure, due to audience demand for any movie filmed in Technicolor. Evidently not one to turn down a role on the basis of aesthetics, Horst Frank was seen in such international co-productions as The Pirates of the Mississippi (1963), The Corpse of Beverly Hills (1964), Vengeance of Fu Manchu (1968), and the immortal South African epic Whispering Death (1971), wherein Frank surpassed his previous cinematic triumphs by playing a black Albino-African rapist.
Alberto Dentice
(Actor)
Klaus Grünberg
(Actor)
Dominique Darel
(Actor)
Alessandra Cardini
(Actor)
Gastone Pescucci
(Actor)
Elvira Cortese
(Actor)
Born:
August 13, 1910
Anna Maria Gherardi
(Actor)
Born:
October 15, 1939
Hans Terofal
(Actor)
Mimmo Rizzo
(Actor)
Giovanni Filidoro
(Actor)
Antonio Casale
(Actor)
.. Hole the Bounty Hunter
Memè Perlini
(Actor)
.. Saxon's Henchman
Giancarlo Badessi
(Actor)
.. Publican with eye patch
Born:
September 21, 1928
Luigi Antonio Guerra
(Actor)
Maria Teresa Piaggio
(Actor)
Vittorio Sancisi
(Actor)
Giorgio Trestini
(Actor)
.. Bull
Born:
March 26, 1937
Peter O'Brien
(Actor)
.. Newland
Born:
March 25, 1960
Marcel Iures
(Actor)
Born:
August 02, 1951
Trivia:
Romanian actor Marcel Iures took his cinematic bow in the early '70s and spent the next several decades specializing in character portrayals. He often appeared as distinguished and educated men (Pope Pius XII in the 2002 Amen; a doctor in The Cave [2005]; a professor in Youth Without Youth [2007]) or Eastern European ethnic types. Iures' role in the 1994 Interview With the Vampire for director Neil Jordan -- that of a Parisian vampire -- not only took full advantage of the actor's near-Transylvanian origins but channeled his ruddy looks into something far more sinister than his usual evocations.
