''The Unholy Four'' (

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: ''Ciakmull (L'uomo della vendetta)'', lit. "Ciakmull (The vengeful man)"), also known as ''Chuck Mool'', is a 1970

Spaghetti Western The spaghetti Western is a broad subgenre of Western films produced in Europe. It emerged in the mid-1960s in the wake of Sergio Leone's filmmaking style and international box-office success. The term was used by foreign critics because most o ...

. The film represents the directorial debut of

Enzo Barboni Enzo Barboni (7 July 1922 – 23 March 2002), sometimes credited by his pseudonym E.B. Clucher; the surname of his grandmother,p. 115 Wong, Alzia S. ''Spaghetti Westerns: A Viewer's Guide (National Cinemas)'' Rowman & Littlefield Publishers ( ...

, who was, until then, a respected cinematographer. He replaced Ferdinando Baldi, who was fired by the producer Manolo Bolognini because of his insistence in wanting to engage the actress Annabella Incontrera in the role of Sheila.

Plot

When a violent gang robs a bank, they also commit arson because the diversion eases their getaway. While the local prison is burning, four of its inmates profit from the general turmoil too. Among the four escapees is Chuck Mool, a young man suffering with amnesia, who only remembers about his previous life that he has been home in the town Oxaca. For lack of a better idea all the fugitives go there. It shows that Mool is not forgotten in Oxaca. Lion Udo, the father of one of the bankrobbers, recognizes Mool. He, whose clan has a feud with Mool's family, takes advantage of his condition by turning him against his own kin. Before this plan works out, Mool is warned in time by one of his fellow fugitives. Mool contacts his half-brother Alan and his father John Caldwell. Only then he learns what caused his amnesia and why he'd ended up in prison. It was Alan who once mistreated Mool and ran a scheme to put him away. He hates Mool since he knows that he is not the son of John Caldwell, but the child of a rapist.

Cast

* Leonard Mann as Chuck Mool *

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as Woody * Peter Martell as Silver * Helmuth Schneider as Joe Caldwell *

George Eastman George Eastman (July 12, 1854March 14, 1932) was an American entrepreneur who founded the Kodak, Eastman Kodak Company and helped to bring the photographic use of roll film into the mainstream. After a decade of experiments in photography, he ...

as Hondo *

Ida Galli Ida Galli (born 8 October 1939) is an Italian film actress best known for her roles in spaghetti Western and ''giallo'' films in the 1960s and 1970s. Galli has appeared under several pseudonyms, including Arianna, Evelyn Stewart and Isli Oberon. ...

as Sheila * Alain Naya as Alan Caldwell * Dino Strano as Sam *

Andrea Aureli Andrea Aureli (5 March 1923 – 5 November 2007) was an Italian actor. Life and career Born in Terni, Aureli graduated from the Liceo classico in his hometown, then he enrolled the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome, graduating i ...

as Santiago *

Enzo Fiermonte Enzo Fiermonte (17 July 1908 – 22 March 1993), sometimes credited as William Bird, was an Italian actor and boxer. Early life Vincenzo "Enzo" Fiermonte was born on 17 July 1908 in Casamassima, a rural village near Bari, in southern Italy to D ...

as Sheriff * Giuseppe Lauricella as Udo * Romano Puppo as Burt * Lucio Rosato as Tom Udo * Luciano Rossi as Fair Poker Player * Giovanni Cianfriglia as Saloon Brawler * Claudio Scarchilli as Saloon Brawler

Releases

Wild East Productions released this on a limited edition DVD in 2007 with ''

The Forgotten Pistolero ''The Forgotten Pistolero'' ( Italian: ''Il pistolero dell'Ave Maria'', lit. "The Gunman of Hail Mary") is a 1969 Italian Spaghetti Western film co-written and directed by Ferdinando Baldi. The film is a western adaptation of the Greek myth of O ...

''.

References

External links

* 1970 films Spaghetti Western films 1970 Western (genre) films Films scored by Riz Ortolani 1970 directorial debut films Films about amnesia 1970s Italian films {{1970s-Western-film-stub