Ten Thousand Dollars for a Massacre

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1966 · Italy · 100 min

Director: Romolo Guerrieri
Screenplay: Ernesto Gastaldi, Luciano Martino, Sauro Scavolini
Producer: Mino Loy
Music: Nora Orlandi
Editing: Sergio Montanari

Cast

Adriana Ambesi

Loredana Nusciak

Gianni Garko

Claudio Volonté

Dada Gallotti

Fernando Sancho

Massimo Sarchielli

Pinuccio Ardia

Renato Montalbano

Ermelinda De Felice

Jimmy il Fenomeno

What it is about

After four years in prison, Manuel Vásquez returns determined to settle scores with the man who had him locked up. His raid on a ranch sets off a chain of confrontations that draws in Django, a bounty hunter whom the rancher Mendoza hopes to hire to track Vásquez down. The story mixes gunfighters, robberies and old debts in a frontier town.

How it was made

Directed by Romolo Guerrieri, the film belongs to the spaghetti western genre and is regarded as one of the unofficial sequels to Django. During development it carried the working title 7 Dollars on Django. It shares ideas and personnel with Tu cabeza por mil dólares, above all its two leads, Gianni Garko and Claudio Camaso, brother of Gian Maria Volonté. The screenplay is credited to Ernesto Gastaldi, Luciano Martino and Sauro Scavolini, and the score is by Nora Orlandi. Garko appears under the name Gary Hudson.

Reception and legacy

The film was screened as part of a retrospective on spaghetti westerns at the 2007 Venice International Film Festival. Its place in the genre's history is that of a B-movie tied to the wave of unofficial sequels that followed the success of Django. Today it is of interest mainly for its links to other productions of the cycle and for what it reveals about the practices of the period.