''Stranger in Sacramento'' or ''Uno straniero a Sacramento'' is a 1965 Italian

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 film-making style and international box-office success. The term was used by foreign critics because most ...

film directed by

Sergio Bergonzelli Sergio Bergonzelli (25 August 1924 – 24 September 2002) was an Italian director, screenwriter, producer and actor. Life and career Born in Alba, Cuneo, Bergonzelli graduated in Philosophy, then he started working as an actor with the stag ...

. It was based on the novel ''I Will Kill You Tomorrow'' by Jim Murphy.

Cast

Mickey Hargitay Mickey Hargitay (January 6, 1926 – September 14, 2006), born Miklós Karoly Hargitay, was a Hungarian-American actor and the 1955 Mr. Universe. Born in Budapest, Hargitay moved to the United States in 1947 and eventually became a U.S. citi ...

as Mike Jordan * Enrico Bomba as Chris (as Steve Saint-Claire) *

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 ( Accad ...

as Mill (as Johnny Jordan) *

Giulio Marchetti Giulio Marchetti (9 June 1911 – 1 December 1993) was an Italian stage, film and television actor and presenter. Life and career Born in Barcelona, Marchetti was the grandson of the operetta actor and comedian Giulio and the son of the theat ...

as Sheriff Joe (as James Hill) *

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as Lisa (as Flo Silver) * Barbara Frey as Rona Barret * Big Matthews (as Big I. Matthews) *

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as Deputy sheriff (as Lucky Bennett) *

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as Rosa (saloon dancer) * Ariel Brown * Renato Chiantoni *

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* Romano Giomini *

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Plot

During a cattle drive Mike Jordan finds his father and brothers murdered and the herd stolen. He is met with suspicion by the local sheriff and population. Eventually, Mike is able to expose the rancher Barret as the perpetrator. He is assisted by Lisa, Barret's former sister-in-law, and Chris, a wanted horse thief.

Reception

In his investigation of narrative structures in

films, Fridlund discusses ''Stranger in Sacramento'' among films that mix some characters, motifs and plots well known from American traditional Westerns with others usual in Spaghetti Westerns. For example, Mike Jordan is close to the typical American Western hero, while Chris is more like Joe in

A Fistful of Dollars ''A Fistful of Dollars'' ( it, Per un pugno di dollari, lit=For a Fistful of Dollars titled on-screen as ''Fistful of Dollars'') is a 1964 Spaghetti Western film directed by Sergio Leone and starring Clint Eastwood in his first leading role, ...

.Fridlund, Bert: ''The Spaghetti Western. A Thematic Analysis''. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company Inc., 2006 pp. 86-7.

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* 1965 films 1960s Italian-language films Italian Western (genre) films Spaghetti Western films 1965 Western (genre) films Films directed by Sergio Bergonzelli Films based on Western (genre) novels Films produced by Sergio Bergonzelli Films with screenplays by Sergio Bergonzelli 1960s Italian films {{1960s-Western-film-stub