''Death Walks in Laredo'' (, also known as ''Three Golden Boys'' and ''The Pistol, the Karate and the Eye''), is a 1967
Italian
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Spaghetti Western
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film directed by
Enzo Peri
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and shot in Algeria.
It is also influenced by the
Sword-and-sandal
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film genre.
[Fridlund, Bert: ''The Spaghetti Western. A Thematic Analysis''. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company Inc., 2006 pp. 256-57.]
Plot
Three men are each provided with a part of a map and a photograph from the time when they were children: the American Whitey, the Frenchman Étienne and the Japanese Lester. Their maps lead all of them to the same gold mine. When they meet they figure out they are all sons of the late mine owner Langdon. The land around the mine has been bequeathed to them and the saloon girl Mady whom they recognise as their sister. Nonetheless, their heritage is under the sway of megalomaniac gangster boss Fuller, who dresses in toga and lives in a Roman-style palace with local women performing erotic dances. As a team they must fight him and his gang of thugs (who do wear Western outfit).
Cast
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Thomas Hunter: Whitey Selby
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James Shigeta
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: Lester Koto
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Nadir Moretti
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: Étienne Devereaux
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Enrico Maria Salerno
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: Giulio Cesare Fuller
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Delia Boccardo
Delia Boccardo (born 29 January 1948) is an Italian film, television and stage actress.
Life and career
Born in Genoa, Boccardo spent her childhood and adolescence in Nervi, then studied at a Swiss college, at the Poggio Imperiale girls' sc ...
: Mady
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Gianna Serra: Debbie
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Femi Benussi
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Life and career
Benussi was born in Rovigno, Italy (now Rovinj, Croatia). She debuted on stage at the ''Teatro del P ...
: Tula
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Umberto D'Orsi
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Born in Trieste, D'Orsi took a degree in law in 1953, but he was already active in theater from 1950, performing in small companies of prose and revu ...
: Bronson
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Ferruccio De Ceresa
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: Professor
References
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1967 films
1967 Western (genre) films
Spaghetti Western films
Films shot in Algeria
Films scored by Marcello Giombini
1960s Italian films
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