''God's Gun'' (also known as ''Diamante Lobo'') is a 1976 Italian-Israeli

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directed by

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(credited as Frank Kramer) and starring

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and Sybil Danning. Palance plays the head of a malicious group of bandits and Van Cleef plays a double-role of brothers: a priest and a reformed gunfighter.

plays the main character in the film as Johnny, a fatherless kid who brings the reformed gunfighter to town to avenge his brother's murder.

Synopsis

One day Sam Clayton (Jack Palance) and his gang arrive in the small town of Juno City where Father John (Lee Van Cleef) is the priest of the local church. The gang wreak havoc in town, raping a woman and knifing a man in the back. They leave town, only to be caught by the fearless but unarmed Father John. After that, the gang member responsible for the murder is broken out of jail. Vowing revenge, the gang ambushes and guns Father John down on the steps of his church, and then take over the town while waiting for the arrival of the next stagecoach. However, Johnny O'Hara (Leif Garrett), a local boy, manages to escape with a couple of their horses and rides off to Mexico in the hope of finding the priest's gunfighter

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brother (also Van Cleef). They meet and set off back across the border to clean up the town. Meanwhile, Sam Clayton discovers that he is Johnny's father. Also, it is revealed that some fifteen years earlier, during the

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, Jenny O'Hara (Sybil Danning) had been one of Clayton's victims, adding to the mystery of Johnny's paternity.

Cast

as Father John / Lewis *

as Sam Clayton *

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as The Sheriff * Sybil Danning as Jenny *

as Johnny *Robert Lipton as Jess Clayton *Cody Palance as Zeke Clayton *

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as Red Clayton * Pnina Rosenblum as Chesty *Zila Carni as Juanita Lewis * Heinz Bernard as Judge Barrett *Didi Lukov as Rip *

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as Angel George *Chin Chin as Willy *Rafi Ben Ami as Mortimer

Production

''God's Gun'' was filmed in 1975 in Israel.

walked off the film before it was completed, leaving his role to be dubbed by another actor. In an interview with

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in Israel in May 1976, Boone told Amory: "I'm starring in the worst picture ever made. The producer is an Israeli and the director is Italian, and they don't speak. Fortunately it doesn't matter, because the director is deaf in both ears."p.29 Rothel, David ''Richard Boone: A Knight without Armor in a Savage Land''. Empire Publishing, 2000

Home media

''God's Gun'' was released on Blu-ray Disc in the Region A format by

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on February 8, 2022.

References

External links

* *{{Internet Archive film, id=Gods_Gun.avi, name=God's Gun (English version)
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