100.000 Dollari per Ringo
Theatrical release poster
Directed byAlberto De Martino
Screenplay by
Story by
  • Alberto De Martino
  • Giovanni Simonelli
  • Vincenzo Flamini
  • Alfonso Balcazar[1]
CinematographyFederico Gutierrez Larraya[1]
Edited byTeresa Alcocer[1]
Music byBruno Nicolai[1]
Production
companies
  • Fida Cinematografica di Amati Edmondo
  • P.C. Balcázar, Barcelona[1]
Distributed byFida Cinematografica[1]
Release dates
  • November 1965 (1965-11) (Italy)
  • July 1966 (1966-07) (Spain)
Countries
  • Italy
  • Spain[2]: 233 

100.000 dollari per Ringo (or Centomilla dollari per Ringo) is a 1965 spaghetti Western film directed by Alberto De Martino.

It was shown as part of a retrospective on Spaghetti Western at the 64th Venice International Film Festival.[3]

Plot

Lee Barton arrives in Rainbow Valley as a stranger. The townspeople mistake him for Ward Cluster, a former resident thought to have died in the Civil War. They believe Barton has come to seek revenge against the Cherry brothers, who are responsible for the death of his wife. Even Cluster's son, Sean, raised by an Indian chief named Gray Bear, thinks Barton is his father.

Tom Cherry, the most troublesome of the three brothers, is involved in dealings with the Mexican army. He is romantically interested in Deborah, a local woman married to Ive, a local drunk with a questionable reputation.

Tom is on a quest for $100,000 hidden by a Mexican general. At one point, he captures and whips Barton. Eventually, Tom kills both Deborah and Ive.

Barton teams up with a wandering sheriff from Tucson and, in a final shoot-out, kills Tom. Barton discovers the hidden money and envisions a future with Sean.

Cast

Release

100.000 dollari per Ringo was released in Italy in November 1965 and in Spain in July 1966.[4] Thomas Weisser commented that the film was relatively unknown in the United States, but that the film was one of Richard Harrison's greatest international box office hits.[2]: 233 

Box office

The film was one of the most successful Spaghetti Westerns of 1965, being one of only six to gross more than 1,236,276,000 Lira that year; and is the 32 highest grossing of all time.[5][6]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Sangre sobre Texas [100.000 dollari per Ringo] (1965)" (in Italian). Archiviodelcinemaitaliano.it. Retrieved 11 July 2018.
  2. 1 2 Weisser, Thomas (2014-03-11). Spaghetti Westerns--the Good, the Bad and the Violent: A Comprehensive, Illustrated Filmography of 558 Eurowesterns and Their Personnel, 1961-1977. McFarland. ISBN 978-1-4766-1169-3.
  3. ↑ "64th Venice Film Festival – Secret History of Italian Cinema 4". labiennale.org. Archived from the original on 3 October 2007.
  4. ↑ Hughes, Howard (2018). "Westerns, Italian Style: Once Upon a Timeline". The Complete Sartana (Booklet). Arrow Video. p. 34. FCD1762 / AV151.
  5. ↑ Fisher, Austin (2014-02-06). Radical Frontiers in the Spaghetti Western: Politics, Violence and Popular Italian Cinema. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-0-85773-770-0.
  6. ↑ Fridlund, Bert (2014-12-24). The Spaghetti Western: A Thematic Analysis. McFarland. ISBN 978-1-4766-0809-9.
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