Arizona Colt ( it, Il pistolero di Arizona), also known as The Man from Nowhere ( it, L'uomo venuto dal nulla), is a 1966

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directed by

Michele Lupo Michele Lupo (4 December 1932 – 27 June 1989) was an Italian film director. He directed 23 films between 1962 and 1982. He was born in Corleone, Italy, and died in Rome, Italy. Selected filmography * '' Colossus of the Arena'' (1962) * ...

and starring

Giuliano Gemma Giuliano Gemma (2 September 1938 – 1 October 2013) was an Italian actor. He is best known internationally for his work in Spaghetti Westerns, particularly for his performances as the title character in Duccio Tessari's '' A Pistol for Ringo'' ...

Fernando Sancho Fernando Sancho Les (7 January 1916 – 31 July 1990) was a Spanish actor. Biography He was born in Zaragoza, in Aragon, Spain on 7 January 1916 and died at Hospital Militar Gómez Ulla in Madrid on 31 July 1990 from a liver failure during o ...

, Corinne Marchand.

Synopsis

Looking to reinforce his gang Torrez Gordon Watch (

) raids a jail at the

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border. All prisoners who refuse to become his new henchman are to be shot dead. Arizona Colt (

) eludes him, and makes it to a peaceful little town which named Blackstone Hill. Little does he know that Gordon plans to rob the bank. Watch has already brought a gang member in position to feel out how it can be done. While the spy Clay ( Giovanni Pazzafini) prepares the robbery, he hits on a young local woman named Dolores (

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). When she recognises him as a member of the very gang, he murders her. Following this crime the bank gets robbed. The father of Dolores recognises among the gangsters the murderer and hires Arizona Colt to bring the gangster to justice.

Technicality

Filming locations by

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and

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about

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1965.

Production

* Art direction and costume design : Walter Patriarca * Makeup department :

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(make-up),

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(hair) * Production management :

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* Assistant director : Roberto Pariante, Valere Tantini * Sound department : Italo Cameracanna, Lewis E. Ciannelli, Umberto Picistrelli * Music department : Raul Lovecchio * Stunts : Miguel Pedregosa, Nazzareno Zamperla * Camera and electrical department : Sergio D'Offizi,

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, Angelo Pennoni,

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* Additional crew : Franco Rossi, N. W. Russo,

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, Roberto Chevalier,

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, Lauro Gazzolo,

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, Igino Lardani,

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, Rita Savagnone, Sergio Tedesco

Soundtrack

The ''Arizonal Colt'' or ''Il pistolero di Arizona'' ( Francesco De Masi feat Raoul) is an original motion picture soundtrack : "''He came out of nowhere, with no one beside him. He rode out of the sunrise all alone. A man out of nowhere, with no one to love him. His one faithful companion was his gun. No one could say, just where he came from. No one could say, where he was going. Was he a man without a heart, a man with a heart made of stone...''".

Cast

as Arizona Colt *

as Torrez Gordon Watch * Corinne Marchand as Jane * Giovanni Pazzafini as Clay *

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as Pedro * Roberto Camardiel as Whiskey *

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as Sheriff * Gérard Lartigau as Jack/John *

as Dolores *

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as Priest *

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as Watch henchman *

as Banker *

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as Undertaker *

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as Will * Emma Baron * Otto Rock as Rancher *

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as watch henchman * Piero Morgia * José Orjas * Riccardo Pizzuti as watch henchman * Guglielmo Spoletini as watch henchman * Elio Angelucci as a townsman * Bruno Ariè as bandit *

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as the soldier playing cards with two comrades at stagecoach station * Jeff Cameron as rancher * Omero Capanna as bandit * Alberigo Donadeo as man in saloon * Pietro Martellanza as rancher *

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as watch henchman * José Terrón as watch henchman

Releases

''Arizona Colt'' was released in Italy on 27 August 1966 in Italy and in France on 17 February 1971.

References

* {{IMDb title, id = 0060124, title = Arizona Colt
Arizona Colt (1966) , BFI

Arizona Colt de Michele Lupo (1966) - UniFrance
1966 films 1966 Western (genre) films French Western (genre) films Spaghetti Western films 1960s Spanish-language films Films directed by Michele Lupo Films scored by Francesco De Masi Films with screenplays by Ernesto Gastaldi Films shot in Almería Revisionist Western (genre) films 1960s Italian films 1960s French films