Death Sentence (1968 Film)
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''Death Sentence'' () is a 1968
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 ...
directed by
Mario Lanfranchi Mario Lanfranchi (30 June 1927 – 3 January 2022) was an Italian film, theatre, and television director, screenwriter, producer, collector, and actor. Career Lanfranchi was born in Parma. After receiving a degree at the Drama Academy (Accade ...
and starring
Richard Conte Nicholas Peter Conte (March 24, 1910 – April 15, 1975), known professionally as Richard Conte, was an American actor. He was known for his starring roles in films noir and crime dramas during the 1940s and 1950s, including '' Call Northside ...
.


Plot

The rancher Diaz, the gambler Montero, the hypocrite clergyman Baldwin and the mentally distorted rover O'Hara are all former bandits. Cash has unfinished business with this lot and for each single one he conceives a tailored trap which turns their individual preferences against them until they are all put down.


Cast

* Robin Clarke as Cash *
Richard Conte Nicholas Peter Conte (March 24, 1910 – April 15, 1975), known professionally as Richard Conte, was an American actor. He was known for his starring roles in films noir and crime dramas during the 1940s and 1950s, including '' Call Northside ...
as Diaz *
Enrico Maria Salerno Enrico Maria Salerno (18 September 1926 – 28 February 1994) was an Italian actor, voice actor and film director. He was also the voice of Clint Eastwood in the Italian version of Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy films, and the voice of Chris ...
as Montero *
Adolfo Celi Adolfo Celi (; 27 July 1922 – 19 February 1986) was an Italian film actor and director. Born in Curcuraci, Messina, Sicily, Celi appeared in nearly 100 films, specialising in international villains. Although a prominent actor in Italian ...
as Friar Baldwin *
Tomas Milian Tomás Quintín Rodríguez-Varona Milián Salinas de la Fé y Álvarez de la Campa (3 March 1933 – 22 March 2017) was a Cuban-born actor with American and Italian citizenship, known for the emotional intensity and humor he brought to starring ...
as O'Hara, the Albino * Eleonor Brown * Lilli Lembo *
Luciano Rossi Luciano Rossi (28 November 1934 – 29 May 2005) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 67 films between 1966 and 1987. Born in Rome, Rossi became first known as a spaghetti western character actor, being sometimes credited Lou Kamante ...
* Monica Pardo * Glauco Scarlini * Giorgio Gruden * Umberto Di Grazia * Dony Baster * Silvana Bacci * Raffaele Di Mario *
Claudio Trionfi Claudio Trionfi is an Italian film and television actor.Pitts p.91 Selected filmography * ''China Is Near'' (1967) * '' The Protagonists'' (1968) * ''Death Sentence'' (1968) * '' Bridge Over the Elbe'' (1969) * '' Normal Young Man'' (1969) * ''Do ...


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* 1968 films 1968 Western (genre) films 1960s Italian-language films Spaghetti Western films Films directed by Mario Lanfranchi Albinism in popular culture Films shot in Almería Films scored by Gianni Ferrio 1960s Italian films {{1960s-Western-film-stub