''Il pistolero segnato da Dio'' () is a 1968

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film directed by

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and starring Anthony Steffen.

Plot

Cast

* Anthony Steffen as Roy Kerry *

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as Coleman * Ken Wood as Owl Roy * Liz Barret as Maggie *

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as Jonathan Murphy *

Tom Felleghy Tom Felleghy (born Tamás Fellegi; 26 November 1921 – 13 September 2005) was a Hungarian-born Italian actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1958. Felleghy died in Bracciano, Lazio on 13 September 2005, at the age of 83. Film ...

as Bludy * Gia Sandri as Dora *

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as Thomas Claridge *

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as Miss Claridge *

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Production

Ferroni directed ''Il pistolero segnato da dio'' under the name he used for Westerns, Calvin Jackson Padget. It was filmed at Elios Studios and on location in Rome.

Richard Stapley Richard Stapley (20 June 1923 – 5 March 2010), also known by the stage name Richard Wyler, was a British actor and writer. Early life Stapley was born in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, England in 1923. A writer, Stapley published his first nove ...

spoke about the film, stating that his agents told him Ferroni was a "first-class director", whom he would "have a great time working with him." Stapley recalled that he was furious with the director, as he was cast as "the baddie, which was not the most important part. I had never played a baddie before, but he told me that I would enjoy it, it's always more fun to play the villain." Stapley described the film a having a moderate budget and a considerably longer shooting schedule, recalling that it lasted over six weeks. In a 1996 interview with journalist Robert Monell, Stapley revealed that

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partially worked as a cinematographer on ''Il pistolero segnato da dio'', although Sandro Mancori is credited as the film's sole director of photography. Mancori had worked with Bava anonymously on earlier productions.

Release

''Il pistolero segnato da dio'' was released on February 29, 1968, where it was distributed to Augustus. The film was later re-issued in Italy as ''Due pistole e un vigliacco''. As of 2013, ''Il pistolero segnato da Dio'' was never released in the United States and no English-language version of the film is known to exist.

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* Spaghetti Western films 1968 Western (genre) films 1968 films Films directed by Giorgio Ferroni Films scored by Carlo Rustichelli 1960s Italian-language films 1960s Italian films {{1960s-Italy-film-stub